{"product_id":"age-of-auto-electric-isbn-9780262544573","title":"Age of Auto Electric","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe electric vehicle revival reflects negotiations between public policy, which promotes clean, fuel-efficient vehicles, and the auto industry, which promotes high-performance vehicles.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElectric cars were once as numerous as internal combustion engine cars before all but vanishing from American roads around World War I. Now, we are in the midst of an electric vehicle revival, and the goal for a sustainable car seems to be within reach. In \u003ci\u003eAge of Auto Electric\u003c\/i\u003e, Matthew N. Eisler shows that the halting development of the electric car in the intervening decades was a consequence of tensions between environmental, energy, and economic policy imperatives that informed a protracted reappraisal of the automobile system. These factors drove the electric vehicle revival, argues Eisler, hastening automaking’s transformation into a science-based industry in the process.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChallenging the common assumption that the electric vehicle revival is due to the development of better batteries, \u003ci\u003eAge of Auto Electric\u003c\/i\u003e instead focuses on changing environmental and socioeconomic conditions, energy and environmental policies, systems of energy conversion and industrial production, and innovation practices that affected the prevalence and popularity of electric vehicles in recent decades. Eisler describes a world in transition from legacy to alternative energy-conversion systems and the promises, compromises, new problems, and unintended consequences that enterprise has entailed.Acknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e1 Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e2 Reconsidering the Automobile 25\u003cbr\u003e3 Defining Appropriate Technology 41\u003cbr\u003e4 Forcing the Future 63\u003cbr\u003e5 Hybrid Politics 77\u003cbr\u003e6 Bounding Battery Risk 89\u003cbr\u003e7 Fuel Cells, Hydrogen, and Environmental Politics 101\u003cbr\u003e8 Kyoto Cars 111\u003cbr\u003e9 Art of the Possible 123\u003cbr\u003e10 Computers on Wheels 139\u003cbr\u003e11 Motor City Twilight 161\u003cbr\u003e12 Electric Cars and the Business of Public Policy 175\u003cbr\u003e13 Silicon Valley Takes Charge 189\u003cbr\u003e14 The Life Electric 201\u003cbr\u003eConclusion 219\u003cbr\u003eNotes 231\u003cbr\u003eBibliography 297\u003cbr\u003eIndex 343\"A thought-provoking and important work.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—C. J. Myers, formerly, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia\u003c\/b\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAge of Auto Electric\u003c\/i\u003e lays bare the complex, sometimes infuriating modern history of electric vehicles. Far more than a history of battery development, it offers a roadside view of an energy transition-in-progress and the sociotechnical complexities involved in transforming entrenched infrastructures. Insightful and absorbing, Eisler’s book is essential reading.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Suzanne Moon, Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Eisler regales with the fascinating and twisted history of why battery electric vehicles exist, and the technologists and regulators who co-created them, a tale that has nothing and everything to do with solving climate change.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Clark A. Miller, Director, Center for Energy and Society, Arizona State University\u003c\/b\u003eMatthew N. Eisler is Lecturer of History at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44885198242021,"sku":"NP9780262544573","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262544573.jpg?v=1767721136","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/age-of-auto-electric-isbn-9780262544573","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}