Ehsani, Yimin Gao, Sebastien E. Gay (all Texas A&M U.), and Ali Emadi (Illinois Institute of Technology) survey the fundamentals, theory, and design of conventional cars with internal combustion engines, electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles, and fuel cell vehicles. For practicing engineers, they discuss vehicle performance, configuration, control strategy, design methodology, modeling, and simulation for different conventional and modern vehicles based on mathematical equations. The design methodology they describe through step-by-step mathematical equations. For the design methodology of each drive train, they include examples with simulation results. Annotation ⓒ2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)