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How autonomous cars, electrification, and mobility services will change the automotive industry as we know it
The global automotive industry is likely to change significantly over the next two decades as three key technologies converge: autonomous driving, MaaS (Mobility as a Service) battery electrification. Together, they have the potential to create the biggest paradigm shift in the 130+ year history of the car industry, affecting established business models and disrupting traditional supply chains.
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With the ownership of vehicles shifting from a personal ownership- to shared ownership models and with autonomous vehicle technology progressing towards a robo-taxi future, the automotive industry faces disruptive trends but also large opportunities.
MobilityInsight is a service for the operational business that provides global mobility coverage, and a 12-year outlook forecast data for 4 major markets (USA, Europe, China and India). With MobilityInsight, you will be able to access:
Mobility trends can be a short term hypes, and long term disruptors. In our Mobility Reports, we analyze and explain the latest trends in electrification, autonomous vehicle technology, passenger car ownership models and mobility services.
Examples of our reports include:
Is there a future for car sharing in a robo-taxi world?
A look into circular economy vehicles
European L6e/L7e Microcar Market Snapshot
PBVs = Purpose Built Vehicles and their growth potential
Car Subscriptions – long term trend or short-term hype
China’s leading EV startups build sector growth
The road to carbon neutrality: an electrifying future
Explore our research and analysis on the dynamic in the new EV Player start up space. The New EV Players Monitor evaluates and analyzes EV start-up companies with our unique EV-SURE rating.
Our 12-year mobility channel forecast for Light Vehicle Sales, Parc and Vehicle Miles Travelled (VMT): The datasets provide forecasts for Personally Owned cars, Car Sharing cars and Ride Hailing cars, their propulsion types and autonomy level.
Experts
Tom De Vleesschauwer
Tom has been involved in the international automotive industry
for nearly two decades and is currently responsible for both
long-term market research and business consulting projects for the
Automotive Group. He has contributed to special projects assessing
technical, business, regulatory and societal trends to help senior
management improve decision-making. He has assisted automotive
manufacturers, global suppliers, NGOs and government agencies,
including European Commission and Parliament. Recently, his work
encompassed areas such as biofuels market potential, CO2
forecasting evaluations and future mobility outlooks.Tom regularly contributes to several company publications and is
frequently quoted in the media. Previously, he was with the
Automotive Group of Standard & Poor's DRI, and Euromoney
Financial Publications. During his formative academic years, he was
a marketing trainee at Citroen Belux and Land Rover North
America.Tom holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Northwood
University in Midland, Michigan, US, a Masters of Business
Administration from Cardiff Business School, UK, and an IVA-A HBO
(Honors) from IVA in Driebergen, Netherlands.
Nigel has more than 30 years of direct experience in analyzing
and forecasting demand trends and light vehicle sales in the global
automotive industry. He is focused on the micro economics of the
auto industry. He has consulted on multiple forecast projects on a
global, regional, national and sub national level. Most recently
his work involves modeling the long term autmotive impacts of new
mobilty trends including new mobilty concepts and autonomous cars.
His current role involves the development of sensitivity and
scenario-based automotive forecasting for short/medium term
contingency planning and long term strategy planning for the
industry.Nigel has been with the company since 1992, and now helps to
steer the core global and country-level light vehicle sales
forecasts. Earlier in his career, he worked for an international
automotive consulting company, where he developed new analytical
approaches to accommodate anticipated structural change in car
consumer behavior at both regional and city levels in response to
global adaptation of new urban mobility patterns. Nigel holds a
first-class honors degree in economics, a master's degree in
industrial and business economics, and an MBA from Cardiff Business
School in Wales, United Kingdom, where he specialized in the
economics of the motor industry. Nigel has received numerous awards
for study and analysis, including the Alexander Duckhams Prize of
the Institute of the Motor Industry, the Adam Smith Medal and the
Sir Julian Hodge Prize of the University of Wales.
Mario is a research expert in the field of automotive Future
Mobility. Mario analyses and forecasts global trends and the
disruptive impact of mobility-as-a-service, electrification, and
autonomous driving technologies on the auto industry. Since 2011,
he is part of the automotive division of S&P Global. Prior to
his current role, Mario was responsible for volume forecast and
market analysis of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in
Europe and the Middle-East/Africa (EMEA). During that period, he
gained specialized knowledge in vehicle manufacturers' BEV (battery
electric vehicles) platform strategies.Mario was employed by Daimler AG, BMW Group Japan, and Mitsumi
Electronics, where he had roles in market research, price/volume
planning and product management.Mario is a graduate of the University of Applied Sciences
Nürtingen, Germany, Business Administration. He is a post-graduate
fellowship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) -
"SP Japan" The program that tightens business and cultural
relations between Germany and Japan in an 18-month stay in Japan.
Mario is fluent in: German, English and Croatian. Mario also speaks
intermediate Japanese.
Tom has been involved in the international automotive industry
for nearly two decades and is currently responsible for both
long-term market research and business consulting projects for the
Automotive Group. He has contributed to special projects assessing
technical, business, regulatory and societal trends to help senior
management improve decision-making. He has assisted automotive
manufacturers, global suppliers, NGOs and government agencies,
including European Commission and Parliament. Recently, his work
encompassed areas such as biofuels market potential, CO2
forecasting evaluations and future mobility outlooks.Tom regularly contributes to several company publications and is
frequently quoted in the media. Previously, he was with the
Automotive Group of Standard & Poor's DRI, and Euromoney
Financial Publications. During his formative academic years, he was
a marketing trainee at Citroen Belux and Land Rover North
America.Tom holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Northwood
University in Midland, Michigan, US, a Masters of Business
Administration from Cardiff Business School, UK, and an IVA-A HBO
(Honors) from IVA in Driebergen, Netherlands.
Nigel has more than 30 years of direct experience in analyzing
and forecasting demand trends and light vehicle sales in the global
automotive industry. He is focused on the micro economics of the
auto industry. He has consulted on multiple forecast projects on a
global, regional, national and sub national level. Most recently
his work involves modeling the long term autmotive impacts of new
mobilty trends including new mobilty concepts and autonomous cars.
His current role involves the development of sensitivity and
scenario-based automotive forecasting for short/medium term
contingency planning and long term strategy planning for the
industry.Nigel has been with the company since 1992, and now helps to
steer the core global and country-level light vehicle sales
forecasts. Earlier in his career, he worked for an international
automotive consulting company, where he developed new analytical
approaches to accommodate anticipated structural change in car
consumer behavior at both regional and city levels in response to
global adaptation of new urban mobility patterns. Nigel holds a
first-class honors degree in economics, a master's degree in
industrial and business economics, and an MBA from Cardiff Business
School in Wales, United Kingdom, where he specialized in the
economics of the motor industry. Nigel has received numerous awards
for study and analysis, including the Alexander Duckhams Prize of
the Institute of the Motor Industry, the Adam Smith Medal and the
Sir Julian Hodge Prize of the University of Wales.
Mario is a research expert in the field of automotive Future
Mobility. Mario analyses and forecasts global trends and the
disruptive impact of mobility-as-a-service, electrification, and
autonomous driving technologies on the auto industry. Since 2011,
he is part of the automotive division of S&P Global. Prior to
his current role, Mario was responsible for volume forecast and
market analysis of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in
Europe and the Middle-East/Africa (EMEA). During that period, he
gained specialized knowledge in vehicle manufacturers' BEV (battery
electric vehicles) platform strategies.Mario was employed by Daimler AG, BMW Group Japan, and Mitsumi
Electronics, where he had roles in market research, price/volume
planning and product management.Mario is a graduate of the University of Applied Sciences
Nürtingen, Germany, Business Administration. He is a post-graduate
fellowship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) -
"SP Japan" The program that tightens business and cultural
relations between Germany and Japan in an 18-month stay in Japan.
Mario is fluent in: German, English and Croatian. Mario also speaks
intermediate Japanese.
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