GLOBAL THOUGHT LEADERS PREDICTIONS FOR MOBILITY 2021 BROUGHT TO YO U B Y Electronomous The International Mobility Summit THE INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY SUMMIT WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY END OF YEAR NOTE. Thank you to all those who took part in We are delighted to announce a series of Electronomous 2020 – The International Online events, (webinars, workshops and Mobility Summit. (Virtual) roundtables, & Investment brokerage events) will be coming in the new year. Please do reach out to us if you or your company would OUR MISSION THIS YEAR like take part. You can reach out to us at [email protected] To Create an Inspirational & Engaging Platform for Global thought leaders in Our plans to host liveevents in 2021 are the International Mobility & Smart City currently underway and we hope to make an community. announcement soon regarding these. 3000+ of you joined the conversation from Finally, I would like to extend my thanks to all over 80 different countries during the course 80+speakers that dialed in from across the of the two day event this year. We appreciate globe and shared their incredible knowledge it doesn’t quite have the same feel as a live, this year. As we wrap this year, we have put in-person event but it created a platform for together some predictions with the assistance business to continue and ensured that these of some Globalindustry thought leaders. We important Mobility conversations continued. hope some of these predictions will assist you to plan for a more successful 2021. The Covid pandemic has further high-lighted the importance of Mobility and Smart City Let’s make 2021 the year we technology. I think if we are to take one #buildbackbetter. message from this year’s event it would be collaboration. In order for us to accelerate Wishing you all the best for the year ahead. the progress of Smart and Sustainable Transport in our cities,technology providers, transport authorities, mobility companies, Keith Whelan OEM’s and Policy makers must continue to Event Director. collaborate. Let’s not waste the opportunity to #electronomous #buildbackbetter. To our partners and sponsors- this isn’t possible without you and we look forward to delivering for you again on future events. A special congratulations must go to theinaugural winners of Rising Stars 2020. Huge Congratulations to Duckt, BitSensing and Blu Smart on their wins! David PREDICTIONS FOR Coleman MAAS RESP. THE MOBILITY Director Global Automotive Practice for Deloitte ECOSYSTEM The past year has been unique development, pricing, and options 1. Integration Standards: 2. MaaS for the Masses: in many respects. Smart Cities for customers going forward. Levelling the Playing Field Small- and Medium-Sized Cities have taken advantage of the crisis, The coming years will be the Embrace Mobility-as-a-Service and the reduced commuting most exhilarating yet for Smart Implementing data and integration that has resulted, to overhaul Cities and Mobility, with advances standards is an important and Inspired by success stories in their Mobility and transportation from OEMs, Tech Giants, city often overlooked aspect of larger urban areas, small- to agenda. Leading Smart Cities have governments and third parties. successful MaaS systems. At Trafi, medium-sized cities are seeing converted formerly congested We can look forward to new and we think effective MaaS networks the value in expanding their MaaS streets into bike lanes, created exciting hardware and digital are defined by their diversity, systems, freeing up congested pedestrian-only zones, set up innovations, which together can meaning the number of players streets and offering citizens a EV-only districts and charging transform the mobility experience from across the mobility spectrum variety of mobility options to networks, reduced speed limits in Smart Cities and beyond. that they involve. Integration choose from. At the same time, the on a citywide basis, and brought standards are great equalizers that technology these MaaS systems forward mobility initiatives reduce costs and barriers to entry, are built on is advancing at break- previously planned for future save time and allow companies neck speeds, allowing for easy years. and cities alike to provide better adoption and effectively reducing services. barriers to entry. Combining these Looking forward, a key battle in factors, it’s safe to assume that Mobility will play out between many smaller cities are poised OEMs and tech giants to to start building out their MaaS 1) own more of the mobility networks in 2021. value chain, 2) control the customer’s end- 3. Connected Cities: to-end experience, and 3) access The Future of MaaS and monetize the customer’s profile and usage data. OEMs are We’ve arrived at an exciting era innovating with fully connected for MaaS. Until recently, MaaS hardware and service concepts, systems were typically designed Christof which offer a portfolio of digital solely with downtown urban areas and driving-related enhancements. in mind. Now, MaaS is expanding Meanwhile, tech giants now its limits: the introduction of Schminke Managing Director provide embedded vehicle intercity systems like the Trafi- Commercial - Trafi GmbH operating systems, which deliver powered yumuv app in Switzerland an enhanced UX and improved allows multiple city networks to be application functionality directly connected with one another and to the customer. The outcome of accessed through a single app. this Mobility battle will influence Having “one app to rule them all” - particularly one that functions on a regional scale - has major benefits for users, offering them flexibility, freedom and a seamless travel experience. point to an acceleration in This trend away from high street mainstream awareness of global shopping, further enhanced by the Dr. Timo warming and air pollution and, reduction in commuter’s spending vitally importantly, a willingness in city centre workplaces, will not to just talk positively then accelerate a complete reappraisal Möller procrastinate, but to take of the future role of cities. For Partner | Head of McKinsey action. We all need to change retail, high streets need to our approach, behaviours and transition from being a function to Center for Future Mobility purchasing to help improve the an experience, and draw buyers world around us. A sustainability- back in to attractive destinations. first approach to mobility will This could be accelerated with 2020 has been a special year in support of capital markets, and on environmental issues when transform the environments we the growth of localism, with local mobility. Next year will also bring many special purpose acquisition enacting mobility guidelines. For live and work in. We still need to communities supporting local much uncertainty but one thing is companies have recently made instance, European officials are Rob do much of what we do today, business, and the rise of niche definite: mobility will continue to some successful deals. In planning to create more stringent but we need to do it in a far boutique stores, rather than evolve in exciting ways. 2021, disruptors will exert their carbon-reduction targets to meet more environmental way, always the large retail chains of today. presence more strongly. While the Paris Agreement about climate Fowler considering the impact on our Another possible outcome could Changing consumer they may compete with traditional change. Many governments are Chief Executive Officer surroundings. We must make be a mass redevelopment of preferences and a greater companies in some areas, they will also creating new incentives to of Volta Trucks these coming few years count in current retail and office space focus on sustainability cooperate with them in others. boost the sales of carbon-free the drive towards zero emissions. into residential space, to deal with Automotive technology will means of transport and others Acceleration in environmental the chronic shortage of low-cost When the COVID-19 pandemic continue to evolve in 2021 and are issuing guidelines with similar and air pollution awareness The ongoing demise of high- housing that exists. This could is controlled consumers will be consumers will have greater goals. Already, more than 150 street retail change the face of the Smart City more willing (again) to use public access to innovations. For cities in Europe restrict access to During the pandemic lockdowns, of the future completely, making transport and other forms of instance, 60 percent of premium their centers to reduce pollution we all noticed the improvements The coronavirus pandemic has them far more focussed around shared mobility. That is what OEMs plan to have some and carbon emissions. in air quality with the reduction of accelerated the demise of many of human needs than commercial consumers across the globe are form of level 4 automation in traffic movement. In November, the great high-street brands, which or corporate needs. That said, telling us in our regular surveys as their vehicles by 2025. Vehicle Long-term mobility shifts the UK Government led the world is of course very difficult for those as the producer of a full-electric well as real-life data is indicating electrification will also continue, in announcing an acceleration in personally affected. A combination large commercial vehicle that’s in urban context. We anticipate and innovations could drive EV Over the next decade, the the ban of internal combustion of cash rich, time poor families specifically designed for inner that sustainability will continue to costs down even further. (The changes in consumer preferences, cars and vans to 2030, which Volta that don’t ‘go shopping’ in their city distribution, this transition be an important consideration, total cost of ownership for BEVs technology, and regulations will Trucks supported, and called for masses as they used to, and the could have a positive effect on our with more consumers opting has already reached parity with contribute to major mobility the ban to extend to commercial unit economics of cheap delivery business model, with many more for electric and micromobility internal-combustion vehicles in shifts.