Charging ahead / / Joe Sherman

• Autore: Sherman Joe <1945->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (239 p.)
• Disciplina: 629.22/93
• Soggetto topico: Electric automobiles; Electric vehicles
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 1998.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; 1. The Freewheeling James Worden Wins Another Race; 2. Then and Now: Rebirth of a Dormant Industry; 3. James Testifies on the Promise of Clean Cars; 4. An Idea Whose Time Has Come?; 5. James's Second Car: A Goofy-Looking Aluminum Thing; 6. Racing Solar-Electric Cars at MIT; 7. Air: This Marvelously Tattered Canopy; 8. Australia, 1987: The First World Solar Challenge; 9. 1989: The Founding of Solectria Corporation; 10. Forces Gathering Behind Cleaner Cars and Air; 11. 1989-1992: Solectria's First Years in Business; 12. A Regulatory Minefield: The Ozone Transport Tale ; 13. ""No Zero-Emission Vehicle Mandate Is a Stake In the Heart""14. The Sunrise Project and Its Partners; 15. Anaheim, 1994: Twelfth International Electric Vehicle Symposium; 16. Sunrise Almost Stalls, Then Rolls, Finally Races; 17. May 1995: The Seventh NESEA American Tour de Sol; 18. Crippling the Clean-Car Mandate; 19. Getting Sunrise into the Mainstream; Epilogue; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A group of MIT students started an electric car company in 1989 that today produces the cleanest car in America. This book chronicles the evolution of Solectria into a small but significant player in the world market for clean cars.
• Titolo autorizzato: Charging ahead
• ISBN: 0-19-770265-1; 1-280-52789-7; 9786610527892; 0-19-802551-3; 1-4294-0048-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823314803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.