Acknowledgments ix
1 Introduction 1
2 Reconsidering the Automobile 25
3 Defining Appropriate Technology 41
4 Forcing the Future 63
5 Hybrid Politics 77
6 Bounding Battery Risk 89
7 Fuel Cells, Hydrogen, and Environmental Politics 101
8 Kyoto Cars 111
9 Art of the Possible 123
10 Computers on Wheels 139
11 Motor City Twilight 161
12 Electric Cars and the Business of Public Policy 175
13 Silicon Valley Takes Charge 189
14 The Life Electric 201
Conclusion 219
Notes 231
Bibliography 297
Index 343

"In Age of Auto Electric, Eisler argues that electric vehicle revival was driven not by better batteries but by the interplay between changing environmental and socio-economic conditions, energy and environmental policies, systems of energy conversion and industrial production, and material practices of innovation"--

Matthew N. Eisler is Lecturer of History at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.