TY - BOOK AU - Carson,Iain AU - Vaitheeswaran,Vijay V. TI - Zoom: the global race to fuel the car of the future SN - 0446698660 AV - HD9710.A2 C27 2007 U1 - 338.4/7629222 22 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - Twelve KW - Automobile industry and trade KW - Forecasting KW - Automobiles KW - Research KW - Alternative fuel vehicles KW - Technological innovations KW - Power resources KW - United States KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-325) and index; The terrible twins : cars and oil wrote the history of twentieth-century American capitalism -- Down and out in Detroit : how the car industry, the icon of American greatness in the last century, lost its way -- Big oil in big trouble : the world is not running out of oil, but America's oil giants are in trouble even so -- The parable of the Prius : how Toyota's culture propelled the once-provincial carmaker past GM to number one -- The axis of oil : oil's geopolitical complications arise from America's bipartisan addiction to oil -- The slumbering giant awakes : the great awakening of America to the dangers of oil addiction and global warming is pushing corporations to act--but can big business really solve the problem? -- Crouching tiger, leaping dragon : Asia's rise could save, rather than destroy, the planet -- The juice and the jalopy : the same anarchic, amazing forces that brought us the Internet and telecom revolutions are now racing to develop the clean fuels and smart cars of tomorrow -- A call to arms : a grass-roots movement sweeping across America promises to overturn Washington's oil curse--and level the playing field for clean energy and the car of the future UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0713/2007011373.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0731/2007011373-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0742/2007011373-b.html ER -