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How the Global Automotive Industry Stole our Green Mobility Future
Grand Theft Auto
9781035329571 Edward Elgar Publishing
This book provides a compelling exploration of the dysfunctionality of car electrification and green mobility. Detailing how car companies aim to control the future of automobility through circular business models, Peter E. Wells highlights the pivotal role of governments in this unsustainable transition.
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This book provides a compelling exploration of the dysfunctionality of car electrification and green mobility. Detailing how car companies aim to control the future of automobility through circular business models, Peter E. Wells highlights the pivotal role of governments in this unsustainable transition.
How the Global Automotive Industry Stole our Green Mobility Future emphasizes how major car manufacturers, supported by governmental subsidies and consumer incentives, have seized the opportunity to control the resources needed for batteries and reinforced car dependence. Wells demonstrates how this has created additional environmental threats, new concerns over national security, further inequalities for workers in distant supply chains, and increased financial barriers to travel. The book also covers the maladaptation and future of the automobile industry, electric SUVs, and electric bicycles.
This comprehensive book is an essential read for scholars of innovation, circular economies, environmental governance, and transport policy. Practitioners and policymakers in socio-technical transitions, urban planning, environmental regulations, mobility, and transportation will also find this an essential guide.
How the Global Automotive Industry Stole our Green Mobility Future emphasizes how major car manufacturers, supported by governmental subsidies and consumer incentives, have seized the opportunity to control the resources needed for batteries and reinforced car dependence. Wells demonstrates how this has created additional environmental threats, new concerns over national security, further inequalities for workers in distant supply chains, and increased financial barriers to travel. The book also covers the maladaptation and future of the automobile industry, electric SUVs, and electric bicycles.
This comprehensive book is an essential read for scholars of innovation, circular economies, environmental governance, and transport policy. Practitioners and policymakers in socio-technical transitions, urban planning, environmental regulations, mobility, and transportation will also find this an essential guide.
Critical Acclaim
‘Anyone concerned about the negative impacts of automobility and the tyranny of the car should read this book. The message is clear: by reframing mobility as waste and advocating for degrowth, Peter E. Wells argues that it is urgent to rethink our transportation systems if we hope to achieve a truly sustainable future. This book serves as a powerful wake-up call.’
– Flávia Consoni, University of Campinas, Brazil
‘Have you ever wondered why cars continue to clutter our streets irrespective of the ubiquitous discussions about green transitions? Peter E. Wells convincingly argues that this is due to the persistent dominance of the global automotive industry. Are you curious to see if there is any alternative? Read the book, and you may find out.’
– Thomas Magnusson, Linköping University and Halmstad University, Sweden
– Flávia Consoni, University of Campinas, Brazil
‘Have you ever wondered why cars continue to clutter our streets irrespective of the ubiquitous discussions about green transitions? Peter E. Wells convincingly argues that this is due to the persistent dominance of the global automotive industry. Are you curious to see if there is any alternative? Read the book, and you may find out.’
– Thomas Magnusson, Linköping University and Halmstad University, Sweden
Contents
Contents
1 Introduction to How the Global Automotive Industry Stole our Green Mobility Future
2 Unsustainable transitions: between fear and greed
3 Shaping future automobility
4 Green monsters: the electric SUV story
5 Taking unsustainability to new heights: eVTOL and the disasters to come
6 Running rings around us: circular business models and corporate control
7 Four wheels bad – two wheels worse?
8 New entrants, new exits, same industry?
9 New world order: reimagining mobility beyond 2035
10 Less is less
References
1 Introduction to How the Global Automotive Industry Stole our Green Mobility Future
2 Unsustainable transitions: between fear and greed
3 Shaping future automobility
4 Green monsters: the electric SUV story
5 Taking unsustainability to new heights: eVTOL and the disasters to come
6 Running rings around us: circular business models and corporate control
7 Four wheels bad – two wheels worse?
8 New entrants, new exits, same industry?
9 New world order: reimagining mobility beyond 2035
10 Less is less
References
