While e-mobility, connected electric vehicles, mobile operators, automotive, software and energy companies take part in the re-formation of this ecosystem, the importance and percentage of some of them are shaped far beyond today’s share.
While the spread of information and technology across borders has become easier due to the impact of globalization, technology transfer to emerging markets is occurring rapidly. Recently, innovations, costs, production and logistics opportunities have become more prominent.
e-mobility trends are changing global understanding
The expectation of high growth in the electric car industry in the coming years brings change globally, with software vehicles growing with new software-centric features and functions that improve safety, comfort and in-car experience. While this change is reflected in the total production units of the countries producing automobiles, on the consumption side, reducing carbon emissions, optimizing mobility and logistics in cities along with costs, and with the new understanding of ownership, consumer interest in electric vehicles is increasing.
E-Mobility Service is an Important Step in Sustainable Cities
Mobility solutions, which are among the best alternatives for transportation, are increasing their popularity in our country and around the world. While efforts are being made for new infrastructure investments, bridges, underpasses and roads in cities; Transportation plans turned to e-mobility and mobility more quickly after the pandemic.
The increasing pace of digitalization brings with it a new era in customer loyalty, including bus, bicycle, train, taxi, metro and even private transportation options, map feature, ticketing, rental and car reservation from a single application.
MaaS, with its acronym used in English, Mobility as a Service, is defined as a type of service that allows users to plan, reserve and pay for multiple needs through a common digital channel. The concept focuses on the transition from personally owned modes of transportation to mobility provided as a service.
The First Steps of Mobility were taken nearly 20 years ago
The need for mobility, which became more evident with the pandemic, first emerged in 1996 as the idea of a smart “information assistant” integrated into travel services. “Mobility As a Service” “MaaS”, which was introduced in Sweden to include ticketing many transportation alternatives, was implemented by different platforms and local governments in 2015, after different concepts were developed in Helsinki and London, discussing its suitability for city infrastructures.
As mobility solutions increase in popularity, the MaaS market is also growing rapidly. As the need for e-mobility increases in cities, operating models include electric scooter and bicycle rental, bus and public transportation-oriented services, minute or hourly car rental, as well as taxi and ride-hailing services.
While Mobility Shuttle Service is becoming an alternative to transport more people, consumers are increasingly adopting new mobility options and applications around the world. The percentage of the population living in urban areas is expected to reach 66% in 2050, and car sharing models are expected to reach approximately 23 million members in 2024. There are more than 1,000 public bike sharing platforms in more than 50 countries around the world.
Today, with the impact of digitalization and the acceleration of data transfer in communication, different service models are developing in different sectors. The need for e-mobility has become the focus of attention of both countries and private companies. Technological developments, especially in smartphones, have opened up opportunities to provide good service and introduced many innovations in the transportation-travel step to this model. Data provided by platforms such as smartphones enable many innovations that make the lives of consumers easier in the transportation network of the city infrastructure.
It is Important to Create a Salary Integrated System in Public Transport
E-mobility management players are working to establish and disseminate an integrated system with telecommunication companies, financial institutions-banks, public and private transportation providers, responsible local authorities, municipalities, transportation and urban planning alternatives. The physical infrastructure that provides transfer between vehicles, transportation services such as buses, and bicycle and car sharing areas at metro junctions or stations need to be created.
Transportation planners and data providers are in constant exchange with users via a MaaS platform. In these posts, it identifies the best transportation range to the desired point A, offers options and makes real-time traffic updates. The success of the system depends on consumer adoption and a good scope that can change.
The Automotive Ecosystem Accelerated by Electric Vehicles Will Shape Differently in 5 Years
Freedom of movement in our cities is shaping consumer behavior for years to come. When the transformation of the entire mobility ecosystem, from electric vehicle manufacturers and suppliers to financiers, dealers, energy providers and charging station operators, is successfully completed, this new ecosystem will transform the automotive industry faster.
In the new ecosystem accelerated by electric vehicles, parent company and bank partner collaborations are expected to increase by ensuring parent company-customer communication after vehicle sales. At the same time, the development of digital applications, open banking and service banking applications that allow the parent company to reach the end user will shape the automotive ecosystem differently in the next 5 years.
Financing Has Become Important
Today, the financing of clean technology in the new e-mobility ecosystem and the inclusiveness and sustainability of the new economy formed with projects that are the key to decarbonization bring different developments. Many factors, such as the significant costs that come with vehicle ownership, traffic congestion, the problem of finding parking in urban areas, high insurance premiums and maintenance costs, direct consumers to mobility solutions. According to a study, 48% of 96% of vehicle owners say they are open to e-mobility alternative solutions. As sustainable consumer finance and e-mobility take steps through digital solutions, supporting integrated transportation and producing solutions to grow in this field becomes even more important.
Mobility Service Usage Areas Are Expanding
Mobility Service usage areas are expanding with the acceleration of data flow, in addition to services such as car sharing and car rental. Details such as maps, directions, public transportation alternatives, traffic density, weather forecast and parking services began to be included in the application. Later, efforts are being made to include steps such as consumer financing (credit and payment opportunities) and insurance services in the mobility services. As the trend of Mobility Services develops by 2030, it is expected that countries will focus more on mobility providers and infrastructure investments in this sense.
E-autonomous smart vehicles, the future of e-mobility
Autonomous vehicles are cars that work by sensing the route, traffic situation and environmental conditions with sensors, cameras and radar. We have just begun to see these vehicles in the 21st century, but they are one of the technologies that will be more prominent in the future.
In 1939, Norman Bel Geddes created the first driverless car, an electric vehicle driven by radio-controlled electromagnetic fields generated by metal spikes embedded in the road. In 1958, the manufacturer turned this concept into reality. Driverless vehicle technology is now taking its place in traffic by being equipped with radar, GPS, odometry and computer vision systems.
Autonomous vehicles perform autopilot driving, determine the positions of braking and parked vehicles in traffic thanks to sensors, and perform maneuvers such as steering control, deceleration and acceleration of the vehicle accurately and quickly. These sensors, which have distance measuring features, detect signs, pedestrians, all living and inanimate objects with cameras.
E-autonomous smart vehicles and their stages
Level 1 includes features such as driver assistant, speed increase or decrease, road control and automatic braking thanks to sensors.
Level 2 includes additions such as partial automation acceleration and vehicle control.
Level 3, Conditional automation, provides environmental control of the vehicles themselves at this level, up to a certain speed, autonomous vehicles drive themselves.
Level 4, high automation, braking, full steering control, decreasing or increasing speed, following the vehicle and the road, as well as decisions requiring decisions such as changing lanes, turning and signaling are performed by the car.
Level 5 can be summarized as fully autonomous, with complete control of the vehicle.
A new ecosystem is being formed with e-autonomous vehicles
Autonomous driving and all services related to this technology will be a part of our lives. While autonomous smart vehicles have become one of the most invested areas of the automotive ecosystem today, they have made consumers adopt the most important perspective in the development of e-mobility. It is known that there are currently more than 30 million driverless vehicles in the world.
Autonomous driving creates significant value for consumers in products such as customer loyalty, financial products and insurance. Within the automotive industry, we see that autonomous smart vehicles will bring new formations in service, supply, infrastructure investment, R&D activities, as well as developing new sales and business strategies, especially with software and mobile operators, acquiring new technological capabilities and addressing security concerns.
Consumer experience is also changing, a new service model is being formed
Autonomous driving not only demonstrates its commercial and technological viability, but also creates an important new ecosystem for drivers, the auto industry, and society. While consumers experience a different mobile experience, they make driving safer, more comfortable and more enjoyable, thanks to the sensor systems offered by autonomous vehicles that constantly communicate with sensors on the road.
We can say that one of the most important advantages offered by autonomous smart vehicles is the opportunity to attend a meeting, watch a movie or even work while driving in busy city traffic. Additionally, these vehicles can provide mobility options for older drivers that go beyond public transportation or car-sharing services. It is predicted that the increasing adoption of advanced driver assistance systems in Europe could reduce the number of accidents by approximately 15 percent by 2030.
The knock-on effects of autonomous cars on other industries could be significant. E-smart autonomous vehicle technology will reduce the number of car accidents and collisions, reduce the need for roadside assistance and repairs, and prevent consumers from paying high insurance premiums, resulting in new insurance models.
As automakers test new insurance products, they are offering personalized offers to their consumers. Automobile companies tailor their insurance policies to their consumers and provide a significant advantage.
e-Autonomous smart and connected vehicle market will grow
20 percent of passenger cars sold in 2030 include autonomous technologies, and this rate is expected to reach 57 percent by 2035. The market will grow by approximately 40% each year between 2030 and 2040.
Manufacturers explain that by 2035, autonomous driving could generate revenue of $400 billion.
The market is expected to grow approximately 40% annually between 2030 and 2040, contributing to a total value pool of approximately $1.7 trillion.
Sustainability steps are also very important in the new ecosystem.
Research shows that transportation accounts for approximately 30 percent of global carbon emissions, and 72 percent of these emissions come from fossil fuel vehicles.
Autonomous driving is changing the way people think about urban mobility, making shared mobility more affordable and the environment greener and more livable.
Manufacturers are working to reuse and recycle all key components in smart vehicles, as is important in electric vehicles, and to ensure access to vehicles after their end of life.
On the other hand, municipalities and local authorities should make roads suitable for autonomous driving by investing in traffic lights and signs suitable for autonomous vehicles in order for e-mobility to develop and play an important role in cities. In addition, practices such as collecting additional taxes on conventional vehicles other than electric vehicles and free parking spaces for electric vehicles, which we see in big cities in many countries, should be expanded.
While states continue to provide incentives for e-autonomous smart vehicles, the expansion of charging networks and supporting companies providing mobility services will be very important for the development of the system.
When we look at it from a sustainability perspective, the days are not far away when shared autonomous vehicles and autonomous public transportation services will become convenient, more ecological and efficient in big cities with commercial and technological applicability along with developing technology and consumer expectations. Public transportation will reduce energy consumption in all traffic-related components in cities, thus becoming more nature-friendly and increasing urban quality.
