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Future drive [electronic resource] : electric vehicles and sustainable transportation / Daniel Sperling ; with contributions from Mark A. Delucchi, Patricia M. Davis, and A.F. Burke.
In Future Drive, Daniel Sperling addresses the adverse energy and environmental consequences of increased travel, and analyzes initiatives and strategies for creating a more environmentally benign system of transportation. He discusses how to exploit the revolution in automotive technologies, why today's auto industry is fundamentally unprepared for the vehicles of tomorrow, why improving technology holds more promise than large-scale behavior modification, and why a.
Regulatory revolution is needed.
Record details
- ISBN: 1417539291 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9781417539291 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9781610910736 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1610910737 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 175 pages) : illustrations
- Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, ©1995.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. CatMonthString:january.19 |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-165) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Transportation as if people mattered -- Sifting the wheat from the chaff -- Toward electric propulsion -- Neighborhood electric vehicles -- Fuel cells -- Hybrid vehicles -- Accelerating regulatory reform -- Technology policy for sustainable transportation. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified Restrictions unspecified |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. |
| System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription. |
| Action Note: | digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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