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2021 Automotive Industry Challenges and Trends
Post-Coronavirus Auto Industry: Saving Country Economy and Jobs SMMT Harbor Safe Scheme The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has prepared an initiative called Safe Harbor to support automotive suppliers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. Its goal is to unite all the parties involved to discuss the pandemic challenges and find a way to improve the situation and save jobs. The voluntary program involves the following steps to be taken by a supplier: The initiative is supported by partners Jaguar, Nissan, McLaren, and the UK Automotive Council. The list of independent third parties includes Deloitte, PWC, and KPMG among others. It’s available for any automotive company operating in the UK. Many of last year’s trends haven’t been developed and implemented. As we highlighted in our 2020 Automotive Industry Report, 2021 seems to follow the same trends and is facing the same challenges though in a doubled volume: electrification, shared mobility, autonomous driving, in-vehicle infotainment… So what other trends are there on the horizon? 2021 Urban Mobility Challenges and Trends E-Mobility As everyone is concerned about environment pollution due to vehicle CO2 emissions, governments and businesses are working hard to provide better conditions for e-mobility. This refers to e-charging infrastructure: for instance, there are more than 330,000 charging points in China at the moment. Shared Mobility Isn’t a Trend Anymore? Shared mobility was about to become one of the leading trends before the coronavirus outbreak, but due to the pandemic, people switched to individual cars to prevent contamination. Though, as stated in Electric Vehicle Outlook 2020, by 2040 “shared mobility represents 16% of all kilometres travelled by road”. Besides, based on the Global Shared Mobility Market Report 2020, one can predict the recovery of the shared mobility trend after a tough pandemic period.

Micromobility: a Great Option During the Pandemic Needless to say that shared mobility refers not only to cars. It includes all possible variants of vehicles: bikes, bicycles, and scooters, which are by the way safer during the pandemic. The micromobility sphere has suffered losses in 2019-2020 primarily because of the “stay home” rule, as almost everybody worked from home and only a few needed this service. Outlook for 2022 is even worse because of the virus, people not working in the workplaces and retirements that are going to grow because of people taken early retirement.

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