Some of the very best history of technology has been devoted to the subject of electric vehicles. I’m particularly interested in the period between 1895-1905, when there were still a multiplicity of electric, gas, and steam options. That includes urban and interurban public transport, not just personal vehicles.

D. Farman. Auto-Cars: Cars, Tramcars, and Small Cars. 1896.

C.B. Glasscock. Motor History of America or The Gasoline Age. 1937.

Peter J. Hugill. Review of The Electric Vehicle and the Burden of History. 2002.

David Kirsch. The Electric Vehicle and the Burden of History. 2000.

Hiram Percy Maxim. Horseless Carriage Days. 1962.

Tom McCarthy. Auto Mania: cars, consumers, and the environment. 2007.

Gijs Mom. The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age. 2004.

Howard Preston.

Automobile Age Atlanta: The Making of a Southern Metropolis, 1900-1935

. 1979.

John B. Rae. The Monopoly that Missed. 1955.

Eric Schatzberg. The Mechanization of Urban Transit in the United States: Electricity and Its Competitors.

Joe Sherman. Charging Ahead. 1998.

Daniel Sperling. Future Drive: Electric Vehicles and Sustainable Transportation. 1995.