| Description |
1 electronic text (xxii, 332 pages) : illustrations, digital file |
| Series |
Society of Automotive Engineers. Electronic publications |
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Society of Automotive Engineers.
Electronic publications
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| Contents |
1. Background for the hybrid electric horseless carriage -- 2. The history of the petro-electric vehicle -- 3. Recent petro- and natural gas-electric car systems -- 4. Modern international petro-electric automobiles -- 5. Experiments with non-petro-electric vehicles -- 6. The flywheel-electric vehicle -- 7. Gas turbine-electric motorcars -- 8. The origin, operation, and applications of the Stirling engine -- 9. On the road to an emissionless automobile -- 10. Photovoltaic cells and their status -- 11. Sun areas of the world and the atmosphere -- 12. History of solar-electric vehicles -- 13. The Trans-Australian World Solar Challenge Race, 1987 -- 14. American Tour de Sol, 1992 -- 15. Solar race car design : the late twentieth century -- 16. Final thoughts and coda -- Appendix A. The Hughes inductive charger system -- Appendix B. Ultracapacitors for electric automobiles |
| Summary |
For more than a century, people have attempted to harness electricity, the clean and versatile fuel, for personal transportation. With impressive technical clarity and historical insight, author Ernest Wakefield reviews these attempts in History of the Electric Automobile: Hybrid Electric Vehicles. He focuses exclusively on electric vehicles that harness the potential of electricity when combined with another energy source - hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) |
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The book details the historical development of capacitors, engines, flywheels, fuel cells, inductive charging, and solar cells - and the application of each to hybrid electric vehicles |
| Notes |
Title from PDF title page (SAE Web site, 08/15/2012) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Also available in print |
| Subject |
Electric automobiles -- History
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Hybrid electric cars -- History
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Automotive.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / Electrical.
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TRANSPORTATION / Automotive / History.
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Electric automobiles
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Hybrid electric cars
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780768037494 |
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0768037492 |
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