{"product_id":"the-electric-car-and-the-burden-of-history-9780813528090","title":"The Electric Car and the Burden of History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWas the electric car ever a viable competitor for the petrol one? This book examines the relationship of technology, society and environment to choice, policy and outcome in the history of American transportation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRescuing the alternatives to internal combustion: large technical systems, technological comptetition, and the burden of history\u003cbr\u003e William C. Whitney, Albert A. Pope, Richard W. Meade, and the Electric Vehicle Company: semi-public electric vehicle transportation service, 1897-1912\u003cbr\u003e Central stations and the electric vehicle industry: organizing to support electric vehicles, 1900-1925\u003cbr\u003e The electric truck and the rise and fall of appropriate spheres\u003cbr\u003e Infrastructure automobile touring, and the dynamics of automotive systems choice\u003cbr\u003e Excursus: the accidents that never happened\u003cbr\u003e The burden of history: expectations past and imperfect\u003cbr\u003e Technological hybrids and the automobile system: from the electrified gas car to the electrification of the automobile\u003cbr\u003e Industrial ecology and the future of the automobile: large-scale technological systems, technological choice, and public policy","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405774332247,"sku":"9780813528090","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813528090.jpg?v=1730493566","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-electric-car-and-the-burden-of-history-9780813528090","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}