Governance, flows, and the end of the car system?

The ‘steel-and-petroleum’ car is one of the most significant contributors to anthropogenic environmental change especially with its continued rapid growth in the world's most rapidly developing countries. This paper examines the intersections of the flows of new fuel systems; new ways of producing car bodies and new systems of managing personal mobility; and especially how these could be governed on multiple levels to overturn this car system. Complexity theory is deployed to examine what might tip these governmentalities and flows into a post-car system.