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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.

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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.

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The remaining driver of growth in global car sales is the overall positive macroeconomic development, including the rise of the global consumer middle class. With established markets slowing in growth, however, growth will continue to rely on emerging economies, particularly China, while product-mix differences will explain different development of revenues. The automotive industry began in the 1860s with hundreds of manufacturers that pioneered the horseless carriage. For many decades, the United States led the world in total automobile production. In 1929, before the Great Depression, the world had 32,028,500 automobiles in use, and the U.S. automobile industry produced over 90% of them.

The model is extensible and leveraging work from the W3C Web of Things been used to represent vehicles as things in IoT. More specifically, the existing vehicle data model and ontology built on top of it, enable exchanging valuable and useful information consistently across the industry. The mission of the Automotive and Transportation Business Group is to act as an incubator of ideas for standardization for connected vehicles. Five-year agreement involves the creation of a global digital hubs network to support CNH Industrial in enhancing its digital capabilities. By acting now, traditional automakers can protect profitability and future-proof their sales and aftersales operations. It’s time to embrace the ecosystem and collaborate beyond industry lines to find new ways of innovating and partnering for success.

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.

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