Electric Motorcycles and Bicycles
A History Including Scooters, Tricycles, Segways and Monocycles
Seiten
2018
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7289-2 (ISBN)
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7289-2 (ISBN)
Today's ever-growing fleets of one-wheel, two-wheel and three-wheel light electric vehicles can now be counted in their hundreds of millions. In this third installment of his electric transport history series, the author covers the lives of the innovative engineers who have developed these e-wheelers.
Beginning in 1881, isolated prototypes of electric tricycles and bicycles were patented and sometimes tested. Limited editions followed in the 1940s, but it was not until the lithium-ion battery became available in the first decade of this century that urban pedelecs and more powerful open-road motorcycles--sometimes with speeds of over 200 mph--became possible and increasingly popular.
Today's ever-growing fleets of one-wheel, two-wheel and three-wheel light electric vehicles can now be counted in the hundreds of millions. In this third installment of his electric transport history series, the author covers the lives of the innovative engineers who have developed these e-wheelers.
Beginning in 1881, isolated prototypes of electric tricycles and bicycles were patented and sometimes tested. Limited editions followed in the 1940s, but it was not until the lithium-ion battery became available in the first decade of this century that urban pedelecs and more powerful open-road motorcycles--sometimes with speeds of over 200 mph--became possible and increasingly popular.
Today's ever-growing fleets of one-wheel, two-wheel and three-wheel light electric vehicles can now be counted in the hundreds of millions. In this third installment of his electric transport history series, the author covers the lives of the innovative engineers who have developed these e-wheelers.
Kevin Desmond, a technology historian and biographer, lives near Bordeaux in southern France. Since 1976, he has published 33 books and 300-plus articles on the men and women innovators, often forgotten, behind the progress of transport and related subjects.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Ed Benjamin
Preface
1. Pioneers
2. The Early 1900s
3. From Socovels to Spacelanders
4. 1950s–1980s
5. The 1990s
6. Urban E-Bikes Worldwide
7. EM Hotshots
8. China: Almost 300 Million E-Bike Riders
9. Marathons
10. Speed Records
11. Variations on a Theme
12. Return of the Electric Three-Wheeler
13. Secret Weapon?
14. Riding into the Future
Appendix: Electric Motorcycle and Battery Builders (Past and Present)
Chapter Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.01.2019 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 77 photos, appendix, notes, bibliography, index |
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 318 g |
| Themenwelt | Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Auto / Motorrad |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte | |
| Technik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4766-7289-X / 147667289X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4766-7289-2 / 9781476672892 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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