Pollard Memorial Library (Lowell)

Zoom, the global race to fuel the car of the future, Iain Carson and Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran

eng

index present

non fiction

Zoom

86110050

Iain Carson and Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran

the global race to fuel the car of the future

The terrible twins -- Cars and oil wrote the history of American capitalism -- Down and out in Detroit -- How the car industry, the icon of American greatness in the 20th century, lost its way -- Big oil in big trouble -- The world is not running out of oil, but America's oil giants are in trouble even so -- The parable of the Prius -- How Toyota's culture propelled the once-provincial carmaker past GM to number one -- The axis of oil -- Oil's geopolitical complications arise from America's bipartisan addiction to oil -- The slumbering giant awakes -- The great awakening of America to the dangers of oil addiction and global warming is pushing -corporations to act-but can big business really solve the problem? -- Crouching tiger, leaping dragon -- Asia's rise could save, rather than destroy, the planet -- The juice and the jalopy -- The same anarchic, amazing American forces that brought us the Internet and telecom revolutions are now racing to develop the clean fuels and smart cars of tomorrow -- A call to arms -- A grass-roots movement sweeping across America promises to overturn Washington's oil curse- and level the playing field for clean energy and the car of the future