| Author/Contributor(s): | Schiffer, Michael |
| Publisher: | Smithsonian Books |
| Date: | 6/22/2010 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Amazingly, in 1900 28 percent of all cars were electric. By 1920 the electric car had all but vanished and gas-powered cars dominated the market. In Taking Charge, Schiffer deftly explores how cultural factors, not technological ones, explain the rise of gas-guzzling cars. Schiffer brings the history of the electric car into the present, arguing that despite the Detroit Big Three’s reluctance to make electric cars, their time has finally arrived.