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Age of auto electric : environment, energy, and the quest for the sustainable car / Matthew Eisler.
MIT Press Direct to Open 2022 Complete Monographs Available online
MIT Press Direct to Open 2022 Complete Monographs- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eisler, Matthew N., 1970- author.
- Series:
- Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
- Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Electric automobiles--Technological innovations.
- Electric automobiles--Political aspects.
- Electric automobiles--Public opinion.
- Sustainable engineering--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (410 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "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 practices of innovation"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262372039
- 0262372037
- 9780262372022
- 0262372029
- OCLC:
- 1351199722
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