Electric Vehicles

Electric Vehicles

Socio-economic Prospects and Technological Challenges

Cowan, Robin; Hulten, Staffan

Taylor & Francis Ltd

12/2000

308

Dura

Inglês

9780754613992

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Could use of the electric vehicle have an impact in other areas of concern - on the environment and noise pollution, for example? This work focuses on the mechanisms whereby the electric vehicle could become a significant part of the transport system, and the prospects of this happening.
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.
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