BIGGEST FUTURE TREND MOBILITY

 

Many industries are undergoing enormous change. the transportation and mobility sector is a perfect example of an industry undergoing rapid change in technology and customer expectations in particular. these changes are being driven by three major trends DECARBONIZATION, AUTOMATION, SERVITIZATION. But it is very important to you know that these three trends won’t just transform the movement of people, the moment of goods will also change.

DECARBONIZATION

 We know that transportation has a major impact on our environment and is a major cause of greenhouse gas emissions. In the US, transportation generates 281 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions from burning gasoline.  The urgent need to transition to greener vehicles is there, which is where electrification comes in when it comes to cars-electrical vehicles. So over will well transition to this world where we also have stricter national emissions target greater urban popularization improving changing enforce future for  EVs and declining costs of batteries especially lithium-ion batteries already come down by about 80% since 2010 and this will continue to happen so we are on track to mass adoption of EVs and it is not just car that is going electric there’s Indian ride-sharing company Ola that has invested massively in e-scooters and the companies. Plant in India is gearing up to produce 10million electric scooters a year making us the world’s largest e-scooters facility. Norway has been running electric ferries even back in 2015 and they aim to run all ferries completely electric by 2023. The other technology that will help us with decarbonization is green hydrogen as long as we can produce hydrogen in a green way we can then fill up our cars, planes, truck, and trains with hydrogen rather than diesel or gasoline and the only byproduct it will generate are water.

AUTOMATION

Elon Musk famously said that his Tesla cars will be completely level 5 autonomous meaning that they can do anything a driver can do by the end of 2021. This hasn’t quite happened yet but while his predictions weren’t quite right there are so many other car manufacturers working on this and they’re currently working on mostly level four autonomy where vehicles can drive themselves in certain conditions. We are seeing driverless taxis becoming a reality.

SERVITIZATION

Servitization is a massive trend that will affect almost all industries in mobility is no exception. As more and more of us live in densely populated megacities and as concerns grow over the climate crisis the days of everyone owning and running their cars are numbered. Plus, there is the rise of ride-sharing services like Uber, and transportation is now much more complex and multi-layered than traditional private ownership of cars, so increasingly, then we’ll turn to mobility as a service provider to meet our transportation needs.

Think of mobility on demand: So a company like Uber could technically fall under this bracket but with mass operations in the future will offer customers multiple mobility options via a single payment channel. For Example with a mass provider, you could borrow a car for a few hours of a day or you can pick up an e-scooter for moving around in town. On Public transport, all the same platform but the key notion here is-that access to mobility rather than Ownership. In the future, the majority of city dwellers may never need to own a car at all.