Rutgers University Press The Electric Vehicle and the Burden of History

Great book for automotive historians. Explains, more from an academic perspective than a consumer perspective, why electric cars lost out to petrol cars one hundred years ago. For those of us interested in automotive history, this is a hugely interesting documentation.

At the turn of the twentieth century, the prospect of a society centered on personal vehicules propulsed by internal combustion engines would have been unimaginable. It seems all the fairies were around the new miracle technology, electricity. The expectations ran very high in the general urban population. This book, through in deep research, brings clues to what really happened.How the marvel energy was put aside by the one that we still have today, using concepts like pistons, crankshafts and generous heat, that are easier to understand. How the general population was drawn to the dream of touring, even though it was an exceptional use of the automobile.How in the prospect of First World War the central governments gave generous subsidies for the development of the use of internal combustion engines for the truck industry.A must read for anyone interested in the history of the electric car.

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Very well researched, this book is a must read for public officials, EV advocates and fans, and energy and transportation professionals.There are plenty of lessons learned here, and now we are listening the same really old centennial arguments: range anxiety, lack of recharging infrastructure, and higher cost than internal combustion engines.Among many surprising facts, you will also learn, believe it or not, that the automobile was the environmentally-friendly solution to the unsustainable problem being suffered by big cities such as New York and London.PS: If you enjoyed this book, I highly recommend A History of Electric Cars, published in 2013. Not only covers the early days of electric cars but it goes all the way through the Prius and Nissan Leaf.

This is the original "Who Killed The Electric Car" story. It was killed about 1915 to 1920.The story has unexpected twists and turns. It should be required reading for all students of the history of technology.