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The electric vehicle : technology and expectations in the automobile age  Cover Image Book Book

The electric vehicle : technology and expectations in the automobile age / Gijs Mom.

Mom, Gijs, 1949- (Author).

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  • ISBN: 0801871387 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xiii, 423 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
  • Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-411) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: Automobiles, Electric > History.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Kirtland Community College Library TL 220 .M6613 2004 30533104 General Collection Available -


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