Electric Vehicle
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Sprache:Englisch
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Altersempfehlung
ab 22 Jahr(e)
Erscheinungsdatum
01.03.2004
Verlag
Johns Hopkins University PressSeitenzahl
440
Maße (L/B/H)
25.8/18.3/3.4 cm
Gewicht
1102 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-8018-7138-2
Even so, throughout the century-long history of electric propulsion, the widespread conviction it was an inferior technology remained stubbornly in place, an assumption mirrored in popular and scholarly memory. In The 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-ratio faction relationship over four "generations" of electric-vehicle design, with separate chapters on privately owned passenger cars and commercial vehicles. Mom makes comparisons among European countries and between Europe and America.
He finds that the electric vehicle offered many advantages, among them greater reliability and control, less noiseand pollution. He also argues that a nexus of factors -- cultural (underpowered and less rugged, electric cars seemed "feminine" at a time when most car buyers were men), structural (the shortcomings of battery technology at the time), and systemic (the infrastructural problem
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