Electric Motorcycles and Bicycles: A History Including Scooters, Tricycles, Segways and Monocycles

by Kevin Desmond

Book Overview

Beginning in 1881, isolated prototypes of electric tricycles and bicycles were patented and sometimes tested. Limited editions followed in the 1940s, but it was not until the lithium-ion battery became available in the first decade of this century that urban pedelecs and more powerful open-road motorcycles--sometimes with speeds of over 200 mph--became possible and increasingly popular. Today's ever-growing fleets of one-wheel, two-wheel and three-wheel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147667289X
• ISBN13: 9781476672892
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher