Charging ahead
- Title
- Charging ahead / Joe Sherman.
- Published by
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 224 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- A group of MIT students started an electric car company in 1989 that today produces the cleanest car in America. This book chronicles the evolution of Solectria into a small but significant player in the world market for clean cars.
- Subject
- Contents
- 1. Freewheeling James Worden Wins Another Race -- 2. Then and Now: Rebirth of a Dormant Industry -- 3. James Testifies on the Promise of Clean Cars -- 4. Idea Whose Time Has Come? -- 5. James's Second Car: A Goofy-Looking Aluminum Thing -- 6. Racing Solar-Electric Cars at MIT -- 7. Air: This Marvelously Tattered Canopy -- 8. Australia, 1987: The First World Solar Challenge -- 9. 1989: The Founding of Solectria Corporation -- 10. Forces Gathering Behind Cleaner Cars and Air -- 11. 1989-1992: Solectria's First Years in Business -- 12. Regulatory Minefield: The Ozone Transport Tale -- 13. "No Zero-Emission Vehicle Mandate Is a Stake In the Heart" -- 14. Sunrise Project and Its Partners -- 15. Anaheim, 1994: Twelfth International Electric Vehicle Symposium -- 16. Sunrise Almost Stalls, Then Rolls, Finally Races -- 17. May 1995: The Seventh NESEA American Tour de Sol -- 18. Crippling the Clean-Car Mandate -- 19. Getting Sunrise into the Mainstream.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-215) and index.