| Description |
xiii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-218) and index. |
| Local Note |
JARZEBOWSKI MEMORIAL |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
A spectular flop -- And then there was light (and power) -- On trolleys and bicycles -- A technological convergence -- The electric automobile goes to market -- Getting a charge -- The wizard comes to the rescue -- A dark age descends -- The road to revival -- The classic age -- Denouement -- Prognosis for the electric car. |
| Summary |
Describes the history and future promise of electric cars in America, revisiting the race between electric and gasoline-powered cars in all its aspects, including the little-known collaboration of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison on Edison's electric car, and arguing that the electric car's time may have finally come. |
| Subject |
Electric automobiles -- United States.
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| Indexed Term |
Electric vehicles |
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United States |
| Added Author |
Butts, Tamara C.
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Grimm, Kimberly K.
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| Added Title |
Electric automobile in America.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Schiffer, Michael B. Taking charge. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1994 (OCoLC)624651210 |
| ISBN |
1560983558 |
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9781560983552 |
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1588340767 paperback |
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9781588340764 paperback |
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