The History of Electric Vehicles
摘要
Chapter 2 provides a concise but detailed history of the evolution of transport means and the role of electric vehicles in that evolution. It summarises the development of early electric vehicles, the challenge of the internal combustion engine, the evolution of specialised electric vehicles such as trams, trolleybuses, golf carts, and milk floats. It presents the intrinsic problem of fuel storage for electric vehicles and summarises the demise of the electric car by the 1930s.