Electric Trucks - Kevin Desmond

Electric Trucks

A History of Delivery Vehicles, Semis, Forklifts and Others

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Buch | Softcover
269 Seiten
2019
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7615-9 (ISBN)
39,85 inkl. MwSt
During the past decade, with the availability of the lithium-ion battery, the electric truck has got back on the road for all payloads and all distances. The fourth in a series covering the history and future of electric transport, this book chronicles the work of the innovative engineers who perfected e-trucks large and small.
Welcomed at end of the 19th century as the solution to the severe problem of horse manure in city streets, electric trucks soon became the norm for short-haul commercial deliveries. Though reliable, they were gradually replaced by gasoline-powered trucks for long-haul deliveries--although a fleet of electric milk trucks survived in Great Britain into the 1960s.

Industrial electric vehicles never disappeared from factories and ports. During the past decade, with the availability of the lithium-ion battery, the electric truck is back on the road for all payloads and all distances. The fourth in a series covering the history and future of electric transport, this book chronicles the work of the innovative engineers who perfected e-trucks large and small.

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 Umberto de Pretto

Prelude

One • Pioneers

Two • Outside the USA

Three • Inter-War Years

Four • SOVELs to TAMAs

Five • “Drinka Pinta Milka Day!”

Six • The OPEC Effect

Seven • The ­Lithium-Ion Advantage

Eight • In Recent Months—2016 to Present

Nine • Start-Ups Out of a Driverless Future

Appendix A: Trolley Trucks and Electrified Roads

Appendix B: Speed Records

Appendix C: Antique and Classic Truck Conservation

Appendix D: Electric Truck and Battery Builders (Past and Present)

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 89 photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort Jefferson, NC
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 363 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
ISBN-10 1-4766-7615-1 / 1476676151
ISBN-13 978-1-4766-7615-9 / 9781476676159
Zustand Neuware
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