Some Great Electric Car BooksThese electric car books listed below are well worth a read. The world of electric cars can be a steep learning curve. There are many issues involved which make it such a live and fascinating subject. Not only have you got all the technical car stuff (for those of you who like that sort of thing!), but it's also a very political subject. How you power your car has a knock-on effect on world politics, world peace, oil wars, global warming..... Here are some good reads I've collected for you to get you started. Happy reading!
High and Mighty: The dangerous rise of the SUV, by Keith Bradsher The Coming Oil Crisis, by Colin Campbell Build Your Own Electric Vehicle, by Bob Brandt (2nd hand only, new edition pending) Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction, by Terry Tamminen Sleeping with the Devil : How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude, by Robert Baer Autogeddon, by Heathcote Williams House of Bush, House of Saud: The secret relationship between the world's two most powerful dynasties, by Craig Unger 
The Emperor's New Hydrogen Economy, by Darryl McMahon The Hype About Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate, by Joseph Romm Hell and High Water: Global Warming--the Solution and the Politics--and What We Should Do, by Joseph Romm Gasoline to Electric Conversion Manual: A Workshop Guide for High Schools, published by the Electric Vehicle Society of Canada. Convert It! by Michael Brown Electric Dreams: One Unlikely Team of Kids and The Race to Build the Car of the Future, by Caroline Kettlewell The Solar Economy, by Herman Scheer Modern Electric, Hybrid Electric, And Fuel Cell Vehicles: Fundamentals, Theory, And Design, by Mehrdad Ehsani Powering the Future: The Ballard Fuel Cell and the Race to Change the World, by Ted Koppel Convert It: A step-by-step manual for converting an internal combustion vehicle to electric power, by Michael P. Brown and Shari Prange The Winds of Change : Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations, by Eugene Linden Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry. by Travis Bradford Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy, by Matthew Simmons The Party's Over, by Richard Heinberg The End of Oil : On the Edge of a Perilous New World, by Paul Roberts Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond Beyond Oil : The View from Hubbert's Peak, by Kenneth Deffeyes Clean Car Wars: How Honda and Toyota are Winning the Battle of the Eco-Friendly Autos, by Yozo Hasegawa Crossing the Rubicon, by Michael C. Ruppert Electric Motors and Control Techniques, by Irving Gottlieb Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil, by David Goodstein High Noon for Natural Gas: The New Energy Crisis, by Julian Darley The Better World Handbook: Small Changes That Make A Big Difference, by Ellis Jones Regime Change Begins at Home: Freeing America from Corporate Rule, by Charles Derber Car That Could: The Inside Story of GM's Revolutionary Electric Vehicle, by MichaelShnayerson Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars that will Recharge America, by Sherry Boschert Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, by Lester Brown The Zero-Carbon Car: Building the Car the Auto Industry Can't Get Right, by William H. Kemp Electric Vehicle Battery Systems, by Sandeep Dhameja The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future, by Vali Nasr Dancing With the Tiger: Learning Sustainability, by Brian Nattrass and Mary Altomare Oil, Jihad and Destiny : Will declining oil production plunge our planet into a depression? by Ronald Cooke The Great War for Civilisation: The conquest of the Middle East, by Robert Fisk 
Power to the People : How the Coming Energy Revolution Will Transform an Industry, Change Our Lives, and Maybe Even Save the Planet, by Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran A Thousand Barrels a Second : The Coming Oil Break Point and the Challenges Facing an Energy Dependent World, by Peter Tertzakian Petrodollar Warfare : Oil, Iraq and the Future of the Dollar, by William R. Clark Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives, by Edwin Black Hybrid, Electric and Fuel-Cell Vehicles, by Jack Erjavec and Jeff Arias Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment, by James Speth Fog Facts : Searching for Truth in the Land of Spin, by Larry Beinhart Running On Empty: How The Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It, by Peter G. Peterson Photovoltaics : Design and Installation Manual, by Solar Energy International The Electric Car: Development and Future of Battery, Hybrid and Fuel-Cell Cars, by Michael H. Westbrook The Oil Factor: How Oil Controls the Economy and Your Financial Future, by Donna & Stephen Leeb The Coming Generational Storm : What You Need to Know about America's Economic Future, by Laurence J. Kotlikoff Fueling the Future: How the Battle Over Energy Is Changing Everything, by Andrew Heintzman - Evan Solomon Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict, by Michael T. Klare The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, by Charles Jencks One With Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future, by Paul Ehrlich Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World, by Alan Weisman Power Down: Options and actions for a post-carbon world, by Richard Heinberg The Great Turning : From Empire to Earth Community, by David C. Korten Fuel Cell Systems Explained, by James Larminie The Complete Idiot's Guide to Solar Power for Your Home, by Dan Ramsey How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, by David Bornstein The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership, by Zbigniew Brzezinski Plan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, by Lester R. Brown Taken For a Ride: Detroit's Big Three and the politics of pollution, by Jack Doyle The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture, by Alanna Stang, Christopher Hawthorne Road Ecology: Science and Solutions, by Richard Forman - Dan Sperling Power With Nature: Solar and Wind Energy Demystified, by Rex Ewing Design Outlaws on the Ecological Frontier, by Chris Zelov Wind Power, Revised Edition: Renewable Energy for Home, Farm, and Business, by Paul Gipe What Matters Most: How a Small Group of Pioneers Is Teaching Social Responsibility to Big Business, and Why Big Business Is Listening, by Jeffrey Hollender & Stephen Fenichell The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century, by James Howard Kunstler History of the Electric Automobile: Hybrid electric vehicles, by Ernest H. Wakefield The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity, by James Lovelock
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