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Publisher
Nemours Marketing
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A feature length documentary about Electric Vehicles arriving in dealer showrooms. A positive view of an industry expected to grow to over $200 billion in revenues over the next 15 years. Follows the birth of an exploding industry and looks forward to the technology available in current EV's. Also take a look back at electric cars driven in the early 1900s and compare how modern EV's are 400 percent more energy efficient over traditional gasoline...
Author
Publisher
Greenstream Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Electric Car Guide is the definitive guide to owning and using an electric car. Now in its fifth edition, it has been extensively rewritten for 2015 to take into account the latest vehicles and the latest developments in this exciting area. The author, Michael Boxwell, has been involved in the electric car industry since 2004 and has owned and used electric cars as personal and family transport since 2006. The book explains both the benefits and...
Author
Publisher
Advantage
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The author explains why he believes the electric vehicle is going to rise to the top of the personal automobile market, discusses the benefits of electric cars, and considers the possible role of the electric vehicle in the transformation of the United States from an oil-based to an electric-powered economy.
Author
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
This book provides a long-overdue vision for a new automobile era. The cars we drive today follow the same underlying design principles as the Model Ts of a hundred years ago. In the twenty-first century, cars are still made for twentieth-century purposes. They're well suited for conveying multiple passengers over long distances at high speeds, but inefficient for providing personal mobility within cities- where most of the world's people now live....
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
By 2006, as many as 5,000 electric cars were destroyed by the major car companies that built them. Today, the electric car is back with a vengeance. Without using a single drop of foreign oil, this new generation of car is America's future: fast, furious, and cleaner than ever. It's not just the next generation of green cars that's on the line, it's the future of the automobile itself.
Author
Series
Will Anderson novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Will Anderson is a drunk, heartbroken over the breakup with his fiancee, Elizabeth. He's barely kept his job at his father's company--Detroit Electric, 1910's leading electric automobile manufacturer. Late one night, Elizabeth's new fiancee and Will's one-time friend, John Cooper, asks Will to meet him at the car factory. Will agrees, and when he arrives there, he finds Cooper dead, crushed in a huge hydraulic roof press. Surprised by the police,...
Author
Publisher
VIKING
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A worldwide race is on to perfect the next engine of economic growth, the advanced lithium-ion battery. It will power the electric car, relieve global warming, and catapult the winner into a new era of economic and political mastery. Can the United States win? Steve LeVine was granted unprecedented access to a secret federal laboratory outside Chicago, where a group of geniuses is trying to solve this next monumental task of physics. But these scientists--...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Investigates the development and demise of the fuel-efficient, environment-friendly electric car. Examines the Bush administration's role in the car's being peremptory pulled from production, the influence of the automobile industry and oil interests, and implications for the future of sustainable energy in the United States.
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