Electric Vehicles
Socio-economic Prospects and Technological Challenges
Published on 29. December 2000
Book
Hardback
308 pages
978-0-7546-1399-2 (ISBN)
Description
The electric vehicle is an established technology, performing the tasks asked of it in predictable ways and at predictable costs. But could expanded use of the electric vehicle have an impact in other areas of concern - on the environment, noise pollution, oil dependency, sustainability and so on? To do so in a noticeable way, the electric vehicle would have to become a significant part of the transportation system. The goal of this work is to address that issue. Whether or not the electric vehicle has technical properties that do respond effectively to these concerns is not central. Rather, the focus of this volume is the mechanisms whereby the electric vehicle could become a significant part of the transportation system, and the prospects of this happening. The chapters in this book address the question from a variety of perspectives.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
24 figures, index
Dimensions
Height: 163 mm
Width: 240 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-1399-2 (9780754613992)
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Content
The electric vehicle - a problem of entrenchment or of technical impossibility? Robin Cowan and Staffan Hulten; getting out of the vicious traffic circle - attempts at restructuring the cultural ambience of the automobile throughout the 20th century, Mikael Hard and Andreas Knie; was the electric car "locked out"? James Foreman-Peck; technological hybrids and the automobile system - historical considerations of the "electrified gas car" and the electrification of the automobile, David A. Kirsch; escaping from the prototype trap - EV venture firms and their struggle for survival, Kanehira Maruo; localized development of electric vehicles - the case of La Rochelle, Staffan Hulten and Nicolas Pasquet; French electric vehicle development -when decision and system contexts force technological stretching, Pascal Larbaoui; regional experiments and changing consumer behaviour - the emergence of integrated mobility forms, Bernhard Truffer, Sylvia Harms and Matthias Wachter; user-producer commitments in emerging electric vehicle market niches, Staffan Hulten and Karl Oskar Kallsner; industrial and institutional barriers to the diffusion of electric vehicles, Benoit Simon; discussing the role of technological uncertainties in technology policy processes - some reflections on the California electric vehicle, Hans Fogelberg; EVs as a stepping stone towards a sustainable transportation regime - simulating renewal by means of strategic niche management, Boelie Elzen and Remco Hoogma.