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Electric Vehicles : ""Technology, Policy and Commercial Development""
Modern electric vehicles (EVs) are well suited to most people's general transport needs. Despite this, their adoption at a large scale has been grindingly slow. What are the reasons for this? Unlike most books which focus on the technical aspects of EV performance, this guide sets out the comme...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Electric Vehicles; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Introduction: A Contemporary Crisis; Acknowledgements; Part I
- Private Transport: Seizing the Opportunity; 1. How Combustion Beat Electric; The rise of the automobile; A century of automobile industry; Looking ahead; Where to now?; 2. Global Sustainability in Check; Energy consumption and resource constraints; Impacts on the environment; The alternatives; Seizing the opportunity; Part II
- Technological Feasibility; 3. Vehicle Propulsion; A few basic concepts; The internal combustion engine vehicle; The electric vehicle.
- Hybrids: The electrification spectrumApproaching a verdict 1: Better at the core; Appendix: Vehicle classifications; 4. Energy Storage; Energy storage performance parameters; Combustion-based energy storage systems; Electrochemical battery energy storage systems; Fuel cell energy storage systems; Ultracapacitor energy storage systems; Approaching a verdict 2: Closing the gap; 5. The Electric Vehicle Recharging Infrastructure; Energy services; Impact on the power grid; Approaching a verdict 3: A ripe whole-product solution; Part III
- Electric Vehicle Roadmap.
- 6. Electric Vehicle Cost-EffectivenessCapital costs; Operating costs; Social costs; Cost-effectiveness of electric mobility; A convenient truth; 7. Electric Vehicle Adoption Trajectory; Market forecast review; The nascent market (2010-2020); Crossing the chasm (2015-2025); A silver bullet?; 8. Electric Vehicle Policy Support; Rationale for government action; The road ahead; In conclusion; Index.