Electric Trucks - A History of Delivery Vehicles, Semis, Forklifts and Others

Welcomed at end of the 19th century as the solution to the severe problem of horse manure in city streets, electric trucks soon became the norm for short-haul commercial deliveries. Though reliable, they were gradually replaced by gasoline-powered trucks for long-haul deliveries--although a fleet of electric milk trucks survived in Great Britain into the 1960s.
Industrial electric vehicles never disappeared from factories and ports. During the past decade, with the availability of the lithium-ion battery, the electric truck is back on the road for all payloads and all distances. The fourth in a series covering the history and future of electric transport, this book chronicles the work of the innovative engineers who perfected e-trucks large and small.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Umberto de Pretto

Prelude

One¿¿¿Pioneers

Twö¿¿Outside the USA

Three¿¿¿Inter-War Years

Four¿¿¿SOVELs to TAMAs

Five¿¿¿"Drinka Pinta Milka Day!"

Six¿¿¿The OPEC Effect

Seven¿¿¿The ­Lithium-Ion Advantage

Eight¿¿¿In Recent Months-2016 to Present

Nine¿¿¿Start-Ups Out of a Driverless Future

Appendix A: Trolley Trucks and Electrified Roads

Appendix B: Speed Records

Appendix C: Antique and Classic Truck Conservation

Appendix D: Electric Truck and Battery Builders (Past and Present)

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Kevin Desmond, a technology historian and biographer, lives near Bordeaux in southern France. Since 1976, he has published 33 books and 300-plus articles on the men and women innovators, often forgotten, behind the progress of transport and related subjects.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Desmond, Desmond Kevin
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2019
• EAN: 9781476676159
• ISBN: 978-1-4766-7615-9
• No. of pages: 269
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Car, motorcycle, moped; HISTORY / General, TRANSPORTATION / Automotive / Trucks, TRANSPORTATION / Automotive / Antique & Classic, Road & motor vehicles: general interest, Road and motor vehicles: general interest, electric auto