Electric and Hybrid Cars

Electric and Hybrid Cars
Author: Curtis D. Anderson
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2010-03-30
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0786457422

This illustrated history chronicles electric and hybrid cars from the late 19th century to today's fuel cell and plug-in automobiles. It describes the politics, technology, marketing strategies, and environmental issues that have impacted electric and hybrid cars' research and development. The important marketing shift from a "woman's car" to "going green" is discussed. Milestone projects and technologies such as early batteries, hydrogen and bio-mass fuel cells, the upsurge of hybrid vehicles, and the various regulations and market forces that have shaped the industry are also covered.

The Electric Vehicle

The Electric Vehicle
Author: Gijs Mom
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2013-02-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1421409704

One hopes, as a new generation of electric vehicles becomes a reality, The Electric Vehicle offers a long-overdue reassessment of the place of this technology in the history of street transportation.

Strategy and Structure

Strategy and Structure
Author: Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1969-08-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780262530095

This book shows how the seventy largest corporations in America have dealt with a single economic problem: the effective administration of an expanding business. The author summarizes the history of the expansion of the nation's largest industries during the past hundred years and then examines in depth the modern decentralized corporate structure as it was developed independently by four companies—du Pont, General Motors, Standard Oil (New Jersey), and Sears, Roebuck. This 1990 reprint includes a new introduction by the author.