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The Electric Vehicle : Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age /
"In Electric Vehicle, Gijs Mom challenges this view, arguing that at the beginning of the automobile age neither the internal combustion engine nor the battery-powered vehicle enjoyed a clear advantage. He explores the technology and marketing/consumer-feedback relationship over four "gene...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés Dutch |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.