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Record Nr.

UNINA9910647497903321

Autore

Eisler Matthew N. <1970->

Titolo

Age of auto electric : environment, energy, and the quest for the sustainable car / / Matthew Eisler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2022]

ISBN

9780262372039

0262372037

9780262372022

0262372029

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (410 pages)

Collana

Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology

Disciplina

629.22/93

Soggetti

Electric automobiles - Technological innovations

Electric automobiles - Political aspects

Electric automobiles - Public opinion

Sustainable engineering - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--