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Science 23 February 2001:
Vol. 291. no. 5508, p. 1495
DOI: 10.1126/science.291.5508.1495
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TECHNOLOGY:
Betrayed by Batteries?

A review by Leonard S. Reich

The Electric Vehicle and the Burden of History
David A. Kirsch
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 2000. 307 pp. $52. ISBN 0-8135-2808-9; Paper, $20. ISBN 0-8135-2809-7.

Exploring the early 20th century rise and fall of electric vehicles, Kirsch explains the abandonment of electric vehicles in terms of the business strategies of their manufacturers and electric utilities as well as the expectations and choices of consumers.
The author is in the Science, Technology, and Society Program, 5205 Mayflower Hill, Colby College, Waterville, ME 04901, USA. E-mail: lsreich{at}colby.edu

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)