
Future Drive
191 pages
6 x 9
191 pages
6 x 9
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:
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Transportation as If People Mattered
Chapter 2. Sifting the Wheat from the Chaff
Chapter 3. Toward Electric Propulsion
Chapter 4. Neighborhood Electric Vehicles
Chapter 5. Fuel Cells
Chapter 6. Hybrid Vehicles: Always Second Best?
Chapter 7. Accelerating Regulatory Reform
Chapter 8. Technology Policy for Sustainable Transportation
Notes
Index