Charging Ahead

Name: Charging Ahead
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ISBN: 9780195094794

ISBN-10: 0195094794

ISBN-13: 9780195094794

Edition: 1998

Authors: Joe Sherman

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Charging Ahead is a classic tale of perseverance against daunting odds in the pursuit of a personal dream--and an environmental revolution. You'd have to be a fool to market a consumer electric car, let alone challenge the big three auto makers with a little start up company. But MIT graduate James Worden, with his girlfriend and a handful of audacious engineers, did both and he's well on his way to success. In this marvelous narrative, business writer Joe Sherman vividly describes how Worden and his team built the world's most advanced EV (electric vehicle), the Sunrise. Combining insightful biography with the best of science and business writing, Sherman captures not only Worden's own…

Book details

List price: $72.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/29/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.09" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



Preface



The Freewheeling James Worden Wins Another Race



Then and Now: Rebirth of a Dormant Industry



James Testifies on the Promise of Clean Cars



An Idea Whose Time Has Come?



James's Second Car: A Goofy-Looking Aluminum Thing



Racing Solar-Electric Cars at MIT



Air: This Marvelously Tattered Canopy



Australia, 1987: The First World Solar Challenge



1989: The Founding of Solectria Corporation



Forces Gathering Behind Cleaner Cars and Air



1989-1992: Solectria's First Years in Business



A Regulatory Minefield: The Ozone Transport Tale



"No Zero-Emission Vehicle Mandate Is a Stake In the Heart"



The Sunrise Project and Its Partners



Anaheim, 1994: Twelfth International Electric Vehicle Symposium



Sunrise Almost Stalls, Then Rolls, Finally Races



May 1995: The Seventh NESEA American Tour de Sol



Crippling the Clean-Car Mandate



Getting Sunrise into the Mainstream


Epilogue


Notes


Index