Future Mobility USA'26

Info: The global market for electric vehicles (EVs) has grown significantly in recent years, but demand is softening, leading automakers to reign back their product plans, investment strategies, and sales targets. To reignite the market and accelerate adoption, stakeholders must find a way to address the key barriers to entry while enhancing the appeal and accessibility of EVs.

Info: The global market for electric vehicles is burgeoning, but to achieve mass adoption, stakeholders must overcome numerous challenges, including transforming the charging experience. Consumers are demanding faster, smarter, more convenient, and environmentally friendly EV charging, and it is up to the industry to deliver.

Info: NMC lithium-ion batteries dominate the electric vehicle market, but high production costs and limited driving range leave plenty of room for innovation. Opportunities for improvement include optimizing existing batteries and developing new chemistries and compositions to unlock game-changing performance. With additional factors like superfast charging and ease of recycling to consider, the mobility sector faces a significant challenge.

Info: Modern consumers have incredibly high expectations when it comes to vehicle connectivity. To capture value in this burgeoning market, mobility stakeholders must create a comprehensive connectivity offering that meets and even surpasses consumer requirements in multiple categories, including safety and security, comfort, infotainment, and personal assistance.

Info: As vehicles increasingly rely on software for critical vehicle functions such as engine control and collision avoidance, ensuring their safe operation is essential amidst potential faults or errors. As a result, functional safety is playing a central role in the shift to software-defined vehicles (SDVs).

Info: Automotive E/E architectures have evolved from early generations based on decentralized models and single ECUs to today’s zonal architectures, which are revolutionizing how a vehicle’s systems are designed, integrated, and managed.

Info: Over the past few years, stakeholders across the mobility ecosystem have pushed back their ambitious timelines for Level 5 autonomous vehicle (AV) development and deployment. While some companies, such as Elon Musk’s Tesla, still believe a breakthrough is just around the corner, most now accept that mass deployment is more than a decade away.

Info: The mobility sector has, in recent years, achieved rapid development in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), resulting in much wider adoption. This trend is on track to continue, with the North American ADAS market expected to more than double to around US$23bn by the end of this decade as automakers strive to deliver enhanced driving safety, comfort, and efficiency to their customers.

Info: Sensor fusion techniques, which combine data from cameras, radars, Lidars, and ultrasonic sensors to help the vehicle perceive its surroundings and make decisions, will play a critical role in the evolution of autonomous vehicles. Our panel of experts discuss how they approach the complex task of achieving sensor fusion in the quest for Level 5 autonomous driving.

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