Electric Motorcycles and Bicycles - A History Including Scooters, Tricycles, Segways and Monocycles

Beginning in 1881, isolated prototypes of electric tricycles and bicycles were patented and sometimes tested. Limited editions followed in the 1940s, but it was not until the lithium-ion battery became available in the first decade of this century that urban pedelecs and more powerful open-road motorcycles--sometimes with speeds of over 200 mph--became possible and increasingly popular.
Today's ever-growing fleets of one-wheel, two-wheel and three-wheel light electric vehicles can now be counted in the hundreds of millions. In this third installment of his electric transport history series, the author covers the lives of the innovative engineers who have developed these e-wheelers.

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: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781476672892
• ISBN: 978-1-4766-7289-2
• No. of pages: 254
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > General, dictionaries, handbooks; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, TRANSPORTATION / Motorcycles / General, History of engineering and technology, History of engineering & technology, Motorcycles: general interest, electric auto