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The electric vehicle - a problem of entrenchment or of technicalimpossibility? Robin Cowan and Staffan Hulten; getting out of the vicioustraffic circle - attempts at restructuring the cultural ambience of theautomobile throughout the 20th century, Mikael Hard and Andreas Knie; was theelectric car "locked out"? James Foreman-Peck; technological hybrids and theautomobile system - historical considerations of the "electrified gas car"and the electrification of the automobile, David A. Kirsch; escaping from theprototype trap - EV venture firms and their struggle for survival, KanehiraMaruo; localized development of electric vehicles - the case of La Rochelle,Staffan Hulten and Nicolas Pasquet; French electric vehicle development -whendecision and system contexts force technological stretching, Pascal Larbaoui;regional experiments and changing consumer behaviour - the emergence ofintegrated mobility forms, Bernhard Truffer, Sylvia Harms and MatthiasWachter; user-producer commitments in emerging electric vehicle marketniches, Staffan Hulten and Karl Oskar Kallsner; industrial and institutionalbarriers to the diffusion of electric vehicles, Benoit Simon; discussing therole of technological uncertainties in technology policy processes - somereflections on the California electric vehicle, Hans Fogelberg; EVs as astepping stone towards a sustainable transportation regime - simulatingrenewal by means of strategic niche management, Boelie Elzen and Remco Hoogma.