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Enterprise and Society 2005 6(4):710-712; doi:10.1093/es/khi116
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Gijs Mom. The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xiii + 423 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7138-7, $54.95.

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Automotive historians have long dismissed the electric vehicle; who would want a car with limited speed that had to be recharged every hundred miles? But in 1905, Gijs Mom reminds us, "more than half of all commercial vehicles in the United States were electric powered," and by 1940 tens of thousands of electric cars and trucks had been produced (pp. 206, 265). In the United States and Europe, electric vehicles appeared as taxicabs, delivery vans, and even fire engines, as . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Zachary M. Schrag

George Mason University


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