proceedings of a symposium on battery electric road vehicles held at transport and road research laboratory 8th november 1973

the purpose of this symposium was to consider all types of battery electric road vehicles, including cars, light vans, and limited purpose vehicles such as milk floats. this report contains the papers presented to the meeting, which were as follows: introductory review of the case for electric battery road vehicles (fitchie,jw); the future of battery electric road vehicles (duncan,as); silent rider - a project for city centre transport part 1 - the operators viewpoint (harding,gg); silent rider - a project for city centre transport part 2 - the designers viewpoint (morris,c); prospects for electrically propelled light goods vehicles (arrol,wj); advanced batteries and the electric car (ratcliff,g).