Author:
Eisler, Matthew N., 1970- author.
ImprintCambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]
Descriptionxi, 365 pages ; 23 cm.
Note:Reconsidering the Automobile -- Defining Appropriate Technology -- Forcing the Future -- Hybrid Politics -- Bounding Battery Risk -- Fuel Cells, Hydrogen, and Environmental Politics -- Kyoto Cars -- Art of the Possible -- Computers on Wheels -- Motor City Twilight -- Electric Cars and the Business of Public Policy -- Silicon Valley Takes Charge -- The Life Electric.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-341) and index.
Note:"In Age of Auto Electric, Eisler argues that electric vehicle revival was driven not by better batteries but by the interplay between changing environmental and socio-economic conditions, energy and environmental policies, systems of energy conversion and industrial production, and material practices of innovation."-- Provided by publisher.
