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Title: APPLICABILITY OF ELECTRIC CARS TO URBAN DRIVING
Accession Number: 00156047
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: The applicability of electric cars to urban driving depends upon the adequacy of their limited daily range for typical daily driving patterns and on the availability of electric power for recharging at their overnight parking places. On the basis of the Los Angeles origin-destination survey of 1967, distributions of daily urban driving distance were compiled for individual drivers and cars and then were combined with information on parking spaces to show the applicability of electric cars in future years. By 1980, lead-acid-battery cars with a daily range of 87 km (54 miles) between recharges could take over the urban travel of about a million second cars in Los Angeles households, or 17 percent of all area cars, with little loss of mobility. Advanced-battery cars with a range of 230 km (140 miles) could also serve as primary cars in households. However, limited availability of overnight recharging facilities may limit applicability to 46 percent of area cars in 1990 and 74 percent in 2000. /Author/
Supplemental Notes: Publication of this paper sponsored by Committee on Vehicle Characteristics. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 01418814
Authors: HAMILTON, WILLIAMPagination: pp 1-6
Publication Date: 1976
Serial: ISBN: 0309025788
Media Type: Digital/other
Features: Figures
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; References
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; Tables
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TRT Terms: Old TRIS Terms: Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; Safety and Human Factors
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Oct 13 1977 12:00AM
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