Transition Road

Why the Electric Car Already Won, and Still Feels Stuck

von David O. Jermain, Z. Justin Ren

316 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The electric car is the better machine, and most people who try one never go back. Yet the switch keeps stalling. Governments have moved their deadlines and automakers have scaled back their pledges. Drivers still pull up to chargers that are broken or already taken.In Transition Road, Z. Justin Ren and David O. Jermain explain why. The car was never the hard part. Moving a billion and a half vehicles off gasoline means untangling automakers, oil companies, and electric utilities, industries that answer to different regulators and investors and have grown into each other over a century. Nobody is in charge of the handoff between them, and the charger, the place where the new system meets the road, belongs to no one in particular.The authors draw on years spent building and running charging infrastructure. They trace where the money goes, why commercial fleets will electrify first, what China's battery swapping networks reveal, and what new institutions could finally make charging dependable.Written for the general reader as a sequel to Melting the ICE, Transition Road is an honest map of where the electric transition stands and what should happen next.

• Themen: Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Finanzen, Betriebswirtschaft und Management Industrien und Branchenstudien Fertigungsindustrie Fahrzeug- und Transportindustrie
• ISBN: 9798182862998
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Ren and Jermain