Future Drive: Electric Vehicles And Sustainable Transportation (Paperback)

by Daniel Sperling (Author), Mark A. Delucchi (Contributor), Patricia M. Davis (Contributor), A. F. Burke (Contributor) "The world's car population is booming..." (more)
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Product Description

In Future Drive, Daniel Sperling addresses the adverse energy and environmental consequences of increased travel, and analyzes current initiatives to suggest strategies for creating a more environmentally benign system of transportation. Groundbreaking proposals are constructed around the idea of electric propulsion as the key to a sustainable transportation and energy system. Other essential elements include the ideas that:

• improving technology holds more promise than large-scale behavior modification
• technology initiatives must be matched with regulatory and policy initiatives
• government intervention should be flexible and incentive-based, but should also embrace selective technology-forcing measures
• more diversity and experimentation is needed with regard to vehicles and energy technologies

Sperling evaluates past and current attempts to influence drivers and vehicle use, and articulates a clear and compelling vision of the future. He formulates a coherent and specific set of principles, strategies, and policies for redirecting the United States and other countries onto a new sustainable pathway.

Product Details

• Paperback: 191 pages
• Publisher: Island Press; 1 edition (December 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 155963328X
• ISBN-13: 978-1559633284
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,120,304 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent resource for students writing reports on EVs., May 12, 1999

By A Customer

This book is a must read for anyone interested in electric vehicles and their possible role in the future of the United States transportation industry. Sperling's writing style is clear and easy to understand, and his ideas are well-developed and soundly grounded in science. This book makes an excellent resource for students writing on electric vehicles (the main reason I picked it up) or anyone simply interested in electric vehicles as an alternative form of transportation for themselves or their community. After reading, the reader is thoroughly convinced that the development and promotion of electric vehicles are necessary if we are to avert the impending ecological disaster caused by polluted air and the looming gas crunch.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Informative. The future of American Transportation., May 19, 1997

By A Customer

This book examines the existing transportation delema that we face, with the ever bourgening automobile mode of travel. The Future of sustainable Transportation is possible with new technologies, and is outlined in this book. A must read if you are worried about the tons of pollutants that you as an individual are pumping into the atmosphere