{"id":76424,"date":"2018-02-28T16:43:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T00:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/forces-of-change-the-future-of-mobility"},"modified":"2018-02-28T16:43:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T00:43:20","slug":"forces-of-change-the-future-of-mobility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/forces-of-change-the-future-of-mobility","title":{"rendered":"Forces of change: The future of mobility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/forces-of-change-the-future-of-mobility.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The transition toward a new mobility ecosystem could have wide-reaching impacts that span a host of industries and players, including\u2014but not limited to:<\/p>\n<p><b>Global automotive OEMs <\/b>face momentous and difficult decisions. OEMs will need to determine if they should evolve from a (relatively) fixed capital production, first-transaction, product-sale business into one centered on being an end-to-end mobility services provider. This would represent a profound business model change and the development of entirely new capabilities to be competitively and sustainably viable.<\/p>\n<p>The traditional capabilities of vehicle manufacturers and suppliers will likely need to expand, collaborating with autonomous vehicle technology suppliers, software developers, and others to provide a much broader range of product choices.<sup><a id=\"endnote-sup-12\" href=\"https:\/\/www2.deloitte.com\/insights\/us\/en\/focus\/future-of-mobility\/overview.html#endnote-12\">12<\/a><\/sup> There are complex economics in being able to manufacture vehicles similar to today\u2019s mass-produced driver-owned cars, highly customized personally owned autonomous vehicles, <i>and<\/i> utilitarian pods for urban environments. Manufacturers will likely require not only today\u2019s traditional supply chains but new manufacturing capabilities that allow advanced, low-cost, efficient customization. They will need to determine if they should redesign their business model to compete in all four future states or to focus on one segment.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.deloitte.com\/insights\/us\/en\/focus\/future-of-mobility\/overview.html\">https:\/\/www2.deloitte.com\/insights\/us\/en\/focus\/future-of-mobility\/overview.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The transition toward a new mobility ecosystem could have wide-reaching impacts that span a host of industries and players, including\u2014but not limited to: Global automotive OEMs face momentous and difficult decisions. OEMs will need to determine if they should evolve from a (relatively) fixed capital production, first-transaction, product-sale business into one centered on being an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,39,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}