Owning an Electric Car 2010 Edition: Find the Truth About Using Electric Cars Including Range, Charging, Batteries, Environmental Impact and Everyday Use of Plug in Cars
Owning an Electric Car 2010 Edition: Find the Truth About Using Electric Cars Including Range, Charging, Batteries, Environmental Impact and Everyday Use of Plug in Cars
`Owning an Electric Car’ is full of factual, relevant information without the `techno-babble’ that all too often takes over the debate about electric cars. Where relevant, the book does explain the different technologies that make up an electric car but only in order to help the reader make an informed decision about owning and using an electric car. The author presents a balanced picture of the environmental impact of electric cars, working through hundreds of research documents, meeting wit
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Aug 1, 2010 3:48 am |
Review by A. Breen for Owning an Electric Car 2010 Edition: Find the Truth About Using Electric Cars Including Range, Charging, Batteries, Environmental Impact and Everyday Use of Plug in Cars
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This is a straightforward book about electric vehicles and does not get bogged down in lots of ‘should we shouldn’t’ we rhetoric. It gives you clear information about the state of the electric car at present, warts and all. The author clearly likes electric vehicles but he is not on a mission to convert, he is on a mission to educate. We are told about the science, a little history, the issues still to be overcome, the issues that are being solved and the relationship of the car industry and electric vehicles. It takes a look at what it is like to own one from the direct experiences of people who do. It examines in detail the practicalities of running and driving one. He neither urges you nor dissuades you. He simply puts forward the facts. It seemed clear to me after reading this book that the main problem we have with this sort of technology is inertia, misinformation and ignorance on all sides. This book is an antidote. I feel convinced that many of my practical objections have been answered. Battery life, range, cost, comfort, safety and style. It is hard to think of a question about electric vehicles that this book has not answered and it is easy to see that electric cars are no longer wishful thinking. It explains clearly how they work in today’s society as a feasible and desirable form of personal transport. It gives you enough information to be sensible about it and know what to ask for in an electric vehicle. After reading it, I am quite convinced that the benefits far outweigh the perceived drawbacks and I feel that I can talk in a fairly balanced way about electric vehicles because the book did not shy away from the difficult aspects such as where do we get the electricity to run them. Surprisingly the book really attempts to take a neutral position about the environmental impact. It is a book about this form of transport in its own right and it gives it to you straight.
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