Age of auto electric : : environment, energy, and the quest for the sustainable car / / Matthew Eisler.
"In Age of Auto Electric, Eisler argues that electric vehicle revival was driven not by better batteries but by the interplay between changing environmental and socio-economic conditions, energy and environmental policies, systems of energy conversion and industrial production, and material pra...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : : The MIT Press,, [2022] |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (410 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction-- 2. Reconsidering the automobile-- 3. Defining appropriate technology-- 4. Forcing the future-- 5. Hybrid politics-- 6. Bounding battery risk-- 7. Fuel cells, hydrogen, and environmental politics-- 8. Kyoto cars-- 9. Art of the possible-- 10. Computers on wheels-- 11. Motor city twilight-- 12. Electric cars and the business of public policy-- 13. Silicon valley takes charge-- 14. The life electric conclusion.