Electric Vehicles And Other Alternatives To The Internal Combustion Engine

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309268524
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transitions to Alternative Vehicles and Fuels written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-04-14 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a century, almost all light-duty vehicles (LDVs) have been powered by internal combustion engines operating on petroleum fuels. Energy security concerns about petroleum imports and the effect of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on global climate are driving interest in alternatives. Transitions to Alternative Vehicles and Fuels assesses the potential for reducing petroleum consumption and GHG emissions by 80 percent across the U.S. LDV fleet by 2050, relative to 2005. This report examines the current capability and estimated future performance and costs for each vehicle type and non-petroleum-based fuel technology as options that could significantly contribute to these goals. By analyzing scenarios that combine various fuel and vehicle pathways, the report also identifies barriers to implementation of these technologies and suggests policies to achieve the desired reductions. Several scenarios are promising, but strong, and effective policies such as research and development, subsidies, energy taxes, or regulations will be necessary to overcome barriers, such as cost and consumer choice.

Author : G. M. Naidu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Electric Car written by G. M. Naidu and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert U. Ayres
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alternatives to the Internal Combustion Engine written by Robert U. Ayres and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Electric Vehicles and Other Alternatives to the Internal Combustion Engine written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.7Y/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Electric Vehicles and Other Alternatives to the Internal Combustion Engine written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers S. 451, and related legislation, to authorize DOT and HEW to conduct studies of non-internal combustion powered vehicles and their applications in urban environments.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Electric Vehicles and Other Alternatives to the Internal Combustion Engine, Joint Hearings Before the Committee on Commerce and the Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution of the Committee on Public Works ..., 90-1, on S. 451 and S. 453, March 14, 15, 16, 17; April 10, 1967 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Hilgers
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3662655705
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alternative Powertrains and Extensions to the Conventional Powertrain written by Michael Hilgers and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-12-14 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this work, consisting of 9 individual, self-contained booklets, is to describe commercial vehicle technology in a way that is clear, concise and illustrative. Compact and easy to understand, it provides an overview of the technology that goes into modern commercial vehicles. Starting from the customer's fundamental requirements, the characteristics and systems that define the design of the vehicles are presented knowledgeably in a series of articles, each of which can be read and studied on their own. This volume, "Alternative Powertrains and Supplements to the Conventional Powertrain", introduces alternatives and additions to the conventional powertrain of the commercial vehicle. The wide range of options is presented so as to be clearly understandable for those learning and working with them in a practical environment. Hybrid vehicles, electric powertrains and alternative fuels are discussed.

Author : C.E (Sandy) Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783319168333
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Transportation Options for the 21st Century and Beyond written by C.E (Sandy) Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes an in-depth analysis of the environmental and energy security impacts of replacing the internal combustion engine vehicle with various forms of electric vehicles and replacing gasoline and diesel fuel with alternative fuels including electricity, hydrogen and biofuels. In addition to a detailed "well-to-wheels" analysis of local air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and oil consumption for each alternative vehicle, the book estimates the market penetration potential of each fuel/vehicle combination to determine the most likely societal impact of each alternative vehicle pathway. To support the market penetration estimates, the book analyses the likely cost of each alternative vehicle in mass production and the cost of installing the necessary fuel infrastructure to support each option. The book provides sufficient detail to allow decision makers in governments and industry to choose among the alternative vehicle/fuel combinations that will lead to a truly sustainable transportation system.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Panel on Environmental Science and Technology
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alternatives to the Gasoline-powered Internal Combustion Engine written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Panel on Environmental Science and Technology and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gijs Mom
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421412683
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Electric Vehicle written by Gijs Mom and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Engineer-Historian Award from the International History and Heritage Committee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot Award given by the Society of Automotive Historians Recent attention to hybrid cars that run on both gasoline and electric batteries has made the electric car an apparent alternative to the internal combustion engine and its attendant environmental costs and geopolitical implications. Few people realize that the electric car—neither a recent invention nor a historical curiosity—has a story as old as that of the gasoline-powered automobile, and that at one time many in the nascent automobile industry believed battery-powered engines would become the dominant technology. In both Europe and America, electric cars and trucks succeeded in meeting the needs of a wide range of consumers. Before World War II, as many as 30,000 electric cars and more than 10,000 electric trucks plied American roads; European cities were busy with, electrically propelled fire engines, taxis, delivery vans, buses, heavy trucks and private cars. Even so, throughout the century-long history of electric propulsion, the widespread conviction it was an inferior technology remained stubbornly in place, an assumption mirrored in popular and scholarly memory. In The Electric Vehicle, Gijs Mom challenges this view, arguing that at the beginning of the automobile age neither the internal combustion engine nor the battery-powered vehicle enjoyed a clear advantage. He explores the technology and marketing/consumer-ratio faction relationship over four "generations" of electric-vehicle design, with separate chapters on privately owned passenger cars and commercial vehicles. Mom makes comparisons among European countries and between Europe and America. He finds that the electric vehicle offered many advantages, among them greater reliability and control, less noise and pollution. He also argues that a nexus of factors—cultural (underpowered and less rugged, electric cars seemed "feminine" at a time when most car buyers were men), structural (the shortcomings of battery technology at the time), and systemic (the infrastructural problems of changing large numbers of batteries)—ultimately gave an edge to the internal combustion engine. One hopes, as a new generation of electric vehicles becomes a reality, The Electric Vehicle offers a long-overdue reassessment of the place of this technology in the history of street transportation.