The electric vehicle : technology and expectations in the automobile age - Mom, Gijs, 1949- (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-411) and index.
Keywords: Electric automobiles -- History