Age of auto electric : environment, energy, and the quest for the sustainable car / / Matthew Eisler
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| Autore: |
Eisler Matthew N. <1970->
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| Titolo: |
Age of auto electric : environment, energy, and the quest for the sustainable car / / Matthew Eisler
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2022] |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (410 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 629.22/93 |
| Soggetto topico: | Electric automobiles - Technological innovations |
| Electric automobiles - Political aspects | |
| Electric automobiles - Public opinion | |
| Sustainable engineering - Social aspects | |
| 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"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Age of auto electric |
| ISBN: | 0-262-37203-7 |
| 0-262-37202-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910647497903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology