ZOOM: The Global Race To Fuel the Car of the Future

Vaitheeswaran, Vijay; Carson, Iain

3.4

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9781600240607: ZOOM: The Global Race To Fuel the Car of the Future

ISBN 10: 1600240607 ISBN 13: 9781600240607

Publisher: Twelve, 2007

Two Economist experts reveal that the auto and oil industries are at a pivotal crossroads and have shaped domestic capitalism and the international landscape to create both progress and consequence, in an account that predicts a near-future revolution in energy use, car manufacture, and employment. Simultaneous.

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Review:

Zoom offers a new way to think about cars and energy that's key to understanding the forces shaping business today. It's smart, well-informed and insightful--exactly what one would expect from two of The Economist's best journalists. (-Chris Anderson, author of THE LONG TAIL)

Zoom goes zero to sixty in nothing flat.It's an exciting ride into the future of the world's favorite physical object, the automobile. (-Gregg Easterbrook, author of THE PROGRESS PARADOX)

About the Author:

IAIN CARSON has been the Industry Editor of The Economist since 1994, covering the airline, transportation and manufacturing industries. He has also worked as a reporter and anchor for BBC Television and Channel Four.
VIJAY V. VAITHEESWARAN is an MIT-trained engineer who spent ten years covering global environmental and energy issues for The Economist. He is the author of Power to the People (FSG).

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