| About the Contributors | ix |
| Part 1: The Political-Economic Context and Environmental Imperative | |
| Chapter 1: The Electrification of Automobility | |
| Graham Parkhurst | 3 |
| Chapter 2: Easy Street for Low-carbon Mobility? The Political Economy of Mass Electric Car Adoption | |
| Cameron Roberts | 13 |
| Chapter 3: The Energy and Emissions Case and The Lifecycle Impact of Electric Cars | |
| Eckard Helmers | 33 |
| Part 2: Overcoming Inertia: From Internal Combustion Engine to Electric Car | |
| Chapter 4: Producing the Electric Car | |
| Peter Wells and J.-P. Skeete | 53 |
| Chapter 5: Making the Market: The Transformation Pathway to Electric Car Mobility in The Netherlands | |
| Marc Dijk | 71 |
| Chapter 6: Choosing the Electric Car | |
| Colin Whittle and Lorraine Whitmarsh | 97 |
| Part 3: Living with the Electric Car | |
| Chapter 7: The Effect of Electric Car Adoption on Travel Patterns | |
| Craig Morton | 119 |
| Chapter 8: Becoming an Electric Car Owner – User Experience and the EV Community | |
| William Clayton | 135 |
| Chapter 9: Planning for Electric Car Charging: A Review of Technologies, Criteria and Methods | |
| Stefania Boglietti, Martina Carra, Massimiliano Sotgiu, Benedetto Barabino, Michela Bonera and Giulio Maternini | 159 |
| Part 4: Electric Cars in the Future | |
| Chapter 10: Electric Cars: The Future Technological Potential | |
| Javier Turienzo, Jesús F. Lampón, Roberto Chico-Tato and Pablo Cabanelas | 191 |
| Chapter 11: Americans’ Plans for Acquiring and Using Electric, Shared, and Self-driving Cars | |
| Neil Quarles, Kara M. Kockelman and Jooyong Lee | 211 |
| Chapter 12: The Electric Car as a Component of Future Sustainable Mobility | |
| Graham Parkhurst and William Clayton | 231 |
| Index | 247 |
| Index | |
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