Mom, Gijs,  1949- <br/><br/>
The electric vehicle :  technology and expectations in the automobile age / 
Gijs Mom. 
 - Baltimore :  Johns Hopkins University Press,  c2004. 
 - xiii, 423 p. :  ill. ;  26 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-411) and index. 
<br/><br/>Substituting for the horse, choosing propulsion -- Separate spheres : culture and technology of the early car -- Failed experiments : the first-generation electric taxicab -- Horse power : the city car, the touring car, and the crisis of 1907 -- The Trojan horse : the competition for the taxicab market -- The electrified horse : the commercial vehicle in Europe -- The serious side of mobility : the electric truck in the United States -- Off the road and back : utilitarian niches or new universalism? -- Alternative technologies and the history of tomorrow's car. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0801871387 (hardcover : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2002151369 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>BA479431 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Electric automobiles--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TL220  / .M6613 2004