Book ID: CBB665386703

Age of Auto Electric: Environment, Energy, and the Quest for the Sustainable Car (2022)

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Eisler, Matthew Nicholas (Author)


MIT Press


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 378
Language: English

Electric 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 quest for a sustainable car seems to be within reach. In Age of Auto Electric, 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. Challenging the common assumption that the electric vehicle revival is due to the development of better batteries, Age of Auto Electric 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.

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Authors & Contributors
Groves, Christopher
Henwood, Karen
Parkhill, Karen
Annavarapu, Sneha
Cosmin Popan
Emanuel, Martin
Concepts
Technology and society
Development of technology; change in technology
Automobile industry
Mobility
Sustainability
Automobiles
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
18th century
17th century
Places
United States
India
Bangalore, India
Ethiopia
Nigeria
Wales
Institutions
Society for the History of Technology
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