While the future of electric cars is uncertain, their prospects are getting brighter as the price of gasoline rises. Whatever their future, their past is known and now well documented in David Kirsch's The Electric Vehicle and the Burden of History. He examines the decade of the 1890s when steam, gas and electric cars were in competition to win the auto wars, and offers his views on why gasoline won. Students of engineering, marketing and consumer behavior, as well as Prius owners, will find this a fun read. (Vairo Library TL220.K57 2000)
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