Viable business or vital environment? Deconstructing the sustainability concept in future mobility entrepreneurship (2024)
Book Chapter
Parkhurst, G., Cabanelas, P., & Paddeu, D. (2024). Viable business or vital environment? Deconstructing the sustainability concept in future mobility entrepreneurship. In N. Thomopoulos, M. Attard, & Y. Shiftan (Eds.), Sustainable Automated and Connected Transport (161-185). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/s2044-994120240000019009

Rapid technological change in the transport sector is leading to a growing range of potential and actual ‘business models’ deployable for the movement of goods and people. Two key uncertainties arise from this proliferation: first, concerning which o... Read More about Viable business or vital environment? Deconstructing the sustainability concept in future mobility entrepreneurship.

The electrification of automobility (2022)
Book Chapter
Parkhurst, G. (2022). The electrification of automobility. In Electrifying Mobility: Realising a Sustainable Future for the Car (3-12). Bingley: Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2044-994120220000015003

Observations worldwide suggest that climate heating has moved from the stage of being a conceptual future threat to being widely recognisable as having a tangible and present impact in the 2020s. The promotion of the electric car, as a key feature of... Read More about The electrification of automobility.

The electric car as a component of future sustainable mobility (2022)
Book Chapter
Parkhurst, G., & Clayton, W. (2022). The electric car as a component of future sustainable mobility. In Electrifying Mobility: Realising a Sustainable Future for the Car (231-246). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2044-994120220000015014

The chapter draws on the key findings from across the previous chapters in this book with a view to reaching a synthesis which responds to the key question that motivated the book: ‘to what extent does a shift to electric automobility suggest a susta... Read More about The electric car as a component of future sustainable mobility.

Electrifying Mobility: Realising a Sustainable Future for the Car (2022)
Book
Parkhurst, G., & Clayton, W. (Eds.). (2022). Electrifying Mobility: Realising a Sustainable Future for the Car. Bingley: Emerald

Transport is responsible for a growing share of global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, emerging as an economic sector for which technical solutions have shown limited benefits and a shift to electric mobility is seen as an essential... Read More about Electrifying Mobility: Realising a Sustainable Future for the Car.