Miller, an engineer, has worked in automotive design for over 20 years, including in several hybrid vehicle technology programs. He provides a text to supplement a conventional automotive engineering course at the senior or graduate level, focusing on technologies that combine gasoline internal combustion engines with other forms of propulsion, typically electric motors. After reviewing hybrid vehicles and their architectures, he treats such areas as hybrid power plant specification, sizing the drive system, power electronics for alternative current drives, drive system efficiency, energy storage technologies, and automated electrified transportation. Distributed in the US by Books International. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)