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  • Genre:TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
  • SubGenre:Automotive
  • Language:English
  • Pages:332
  • Paperback ISBN:9781733475501

Electric Vehicles: The Automobiles of the Future

by Otto Bischof and Ted Tanaka

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Overview
In Electric Vehicles : The Automobiles of the Future, physicist and mathematician Otto Bischof and mathematician Ted Tanaka explain the necessity of electric vehicles given the Climate Catastrophe that we are in. The authors thoroughly explain all the important components of electric vehicles in an easy-to-read scientific manner and provide in-depth reading questions for the student. Special detail is given to all of the battery technologies that impact electric vehicles. Even details of current electric vehicles are given for potential car buyers. With a complete glossary, thorough index, and fabulous illustrations, this book is in a class by itself!
Description
In Electric Vehicles : The Automobiles of the Future, physicist and mathematician Otto Bischof and mathematician Ted Tanaka explain the necessity of electric vehicles given the Climate Catastrophe that we are in. The authors thoroughly explain all the important components of electric vehicles in an easy-to-read scientific manner and provide in-depth reading questions for the student. Special detail is given to all of the battery technologies that impact electric vehicles. Even details of current electric vehicles are given for potential car buyers. With a complete glossary, thorough index, and fabulous illustrations, this book is in a class by itself!
About the author

Otto Bischof is a mathematics teacher and physicist at Laney College in Oakland, Ca. He is interested both in the physics and technology of electric vehicles and their promise to man as a sustainable transportation technology in the present climate crisis. Otto Bischof has dual masters degrees in physics and mathematics. He currently works for the Gateway Program at Laney College teaching high school students college math. He has taught math, physics, and astronomy courses at Peralta Community Colleges for 23 years. He and his co-author, Ted Tanaka, worked consistently and diligently over a span of 6 years to prepare the final manuscript. This book was a joint project between the two authors, who were colleagues and friends, and the illustrator, David Akawie, a friend of Mr. Bischof. The author has a website he encourages you to visit. Please go to electriccarfuture.com.