This book talks about electric cars.very useful book to people who dont have any idea a bout electric car industry .

1. BOOK REVIEW
WRITTEN BY: NAWAF AL-DAYYENI

2. The Author: Lorenz Köll, Olmo Tomás Mezger,and
Thomas Rasilier, pages 56, Version 1,0 - July
2011
1-REVIEW ON THE MOST IMPORTANT
CHAPTERS OF THE BOOK
2-EVALUATION

3. This figure shows the top ten common questions

4. THE BOOK INTRODUCTION
This chapter is an introduction to the
subject and provides brief perspective on
these technologies, also explaining
some of the new concepts.

5. THE BEST WAY IS CONDUCTIVE
WAY.
First chapter(How do you charge an electric car?)
There are three ways:-
1-Changing the battery.
2-conductive way.
3- inductive way.

6. Second chapter(What is the lifespan of an electric car?).
*Depends on batteries type
Factors affect on lifespan of a battery:-
A-Extreme low temperatures.
B-Number of charging cycles(Modern batteries can stand 3,000 cycle).
C-Overcharging and fast charging
Lithium batteries are
the most promising
technology for use in
electric cars.

7. Fourth chapter(What are the costs of an electric cars?(.
*An average price of an electric car is between
,35 000and 40,000 euro.
*The consumer would 24,000 euro for an electric
car.
*The largest percent of the price is in the batteries.

8. Fifth chapter(Do governments promote the purchase of electric
cars?(.
*Japan government gives 10,000 euro as a grants for the purchase of a vehicle of
electric type.
*Germany does not give anything for supporting this industry.

9. Seventh chapter(What are the levels of CO2 emissions from electric
cars?(.
*CO2 emissions from electric cars basically depend on how
the electricity is produced.
*Austria generates 70% of its electricity
through hydropower plants.
*France produces 80% of its energy
through nuclear power.

10. *Electric motors are much simpler than petrol motor.
*Electric vehicles have fewer components that are affected by friction and temperature.
*Electric cars don’t need gear box or clutch.They don’t even need filter oil or air.
Eighth chapter(What kind of maintenance and repair do electric cars
need?(.

11. Add a SlideTitle - 5
•*The availability of the battery systems depends on the availability of the row materials
*Around 70% of the world reserve is in South America(lithium reserve(.
*According to lithium reserve ,there is enough lithium to supply the automobile industry for at
least 100 years.
Ninth chapter(Will the batteries be available in the long term?).

12. 2-EVALUATION
1-In this book has been
avoiding the extreme use of
technical vocabulary or
extreme use of data.
2-almost in every page there
is a box of general information
this box makes the book not
monotonic.
3-All figures are clear and easy
to understand.

13. 1-In page 23 has been
repeated the box of general
information which is the
same box in page19.
2-There is spelling mistake
in page 18 (calendaric ) has
to be written like this
(calendric(.