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  • The automotive revenue pool will significantly increase and diversify toward on-demand mobility services and data-driven services.
  • However, due to robust growth in recent years, Indonesia is expected to somewhat limit the gap with Thailand’s dominant position over the next decade.
  • While Tesla, Google, and Apple currently generate significant interest, we believe that they represent just the tip of the iceberg.
  • Organizational Development Suppliers need to adapt their organizational structure to their growing size and level of complexity as well as to evolving industry requirements.

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Product and operation tests and inspections at different stages of the value chain are made to avoid these product recalls by ensuring end-user security and safety and compliance with the automotive industry requirements. However, the automotive industry is still particularly concerned about product recalls, which cause considerable financial consequences. In case of safety issues, danger, product defect or faulty procedure during the manufacturing of the motor vehicle, the maker can request to return either a batch or the entire production run. Product recalls happen in every industry and can be production-related or stem from raw material.

Mobility providers , tech giants , and specialty OEMs increase the complexity of the competitive landscape. Understanding where future business opportunities lie requires a more granular view of mobility markets than ever before. Specifically, it is necessary to segment these markets by city types based primarily on their population density, economic development, and prosperity. Across those segments, consumer preferences, policy and regulation, and the availability and price of new business models will strongly diverge. In megacities such as London, for example, car ownership is already becoming a burden for many, due to congestion fees, a lack of parking, traffic jams, et cetera. By contrast, in rural areas such as the state of Iowa in the United States, private-car usage will remain the preferred means of transport by far.

Electric Vehicles are more than just the battery

Consumer mobility behavior is changing, leading to up to one out of ten cars sold in 2030 potentially being a shared vehicle and the subsequent rise of a market for fit-for-purpose mobility solutions. Electric automobile actually enjoyed the greatest acceptance because it was quiet and easy to operate, but the limitations imposed by battery capacity proved competitively fatal. Especially popular with women, electric cars remained in limited production well into the 1920s.

Procurement Today, parts, modules, and systems from suppliers are responsible for about 60 percent of the typical added value of a car. Manufacturing And Assembly Efficiency and quality are the main goals of automotive manufacturers. Like revenue, the added value in production will increase in upcoming years.

How carmakers can compete for the connected consumer

Consumers’ new habit of using tailored solutions for each purpose will lead to new segments of specialized vehicles designed for very specific needs. A detailed analysis suggests that dense areas with a large, established vehicle base are fertile ground for these new mobility services, and many cities and suburbs of Europe and North America fit this profile. New mobility services may result in a decline of private-vehicle sales, but this decline is likely to be offset by increased sales in shared vehicles that need to be replaced more often due to higher utilization and related wear and tear. The GESITS electric motorcycle is the first electric motorcycle assembled by ITS. GESITS is the product of collaborative research between ITS and PT Garansindo, an electric vehicle industry. Currently, this electric motorcycle is in massive production to produce 50 thousand units and will be in the marketplace in 2018.

Our global and regional customers count on us for unmatched quality, unique insights and reliability. Moreover, Indonesia experienced a remarkable transition as it evolved from being a merely export oriented car production center into a major car sales market due to rising per capita GDP. Some estimates surpass 180,000 L of water per car manufactured, depending on whether tyre production is included. Production processes that use a significant volume of water include surface treatment, painting, coating, washing, cooling, air-conditioning and boilers, not counting component manufacturing. Paintshop operations consume especially large amounts of water, because equipment running on water-based products must also be cleaned with water. From upgraded safety applications to rich infotainment, 5G’s speed and latency improvements will greatly enhance C-V2X capabilities.

There was only one non-Japanese car brand among the best-selling car manufacturers in Indonesia. The Chinese manufacturer Wuling launched their first car in early 2017 and made it in the top ten brands of cars sold with about 25.5 thousand vehicles sold in 2021. Top models of BMW and Audi cars are shipped as finished automobiles (CBU – Completely Built Up), while other models are assembled on site. The industry is transforming from competition among peers toward new competitive interactions, but also partnerships and open, scalable ecosystems. To succeed, automotive manufacturers, suppliers, and service providers need to form alliances or participate in ecosystems—for example, around infrastructure for autonomous and electrified vehicles. A paradigm shift to mobility as a service, along with new entrants, will inevitably force traditional car manufacturers to compete on multiple fronts.