TY - BOOK AU - Mom,Gijs TI - The electric vehicle: technology and expectations in the automobile age SN - 0801871387 (hardcover : alk. paper) AV - TL220 .M6613 2004 PY - 2004/// CY - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Electric automobiles KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-411) and index; 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/jhu052/2002151369 .html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/jhu051/200 2151369.html ER -