More friends than foes? The impact of automobility-as-a-service on the incumbent automotive industry

Entering, enduring and exiting: the durability of shared mobility arrangements and habits

“…Limited and skewed demand for shared vehicles are often cited as issues which make it difficult to establish long-term and commercially viable business models (Lagadic, Verloes, and Louvet 2019;Wells et al 2020). This has contributed to diversification, with some companies experimenting with B2C and B2B hybrid models, and others offering complementary services including ridesharing, P2P car rental and B2C leasing (Guyader and Piscicelli 2019).…”

“…Avis, Enterprise, Europcar, Sixt) have acquired existing operators and/or established (and closed) their own car sharing subsidiaries. Significantly, car sharing, (automated) ride-sharing and ride-hailing are examples of narrower Automobility-as-a-Service (AaaS) platform business models that might be provided independently of MaaS (Wells et al 2020). This 'may allow the perpetuation of the automotive industry and mass automobility' and 'assist the industry in resisting transformative change' (Wells et al 2020, 8).…”

“…Fourth, habits of shared car arrangements are demonstrated to be fragile and not as deeply ingrained as those associated with ownership. Existing household practices and habits thus raise further questions about the potential for shared mobility services to disrupt the primacy of the car (Wells et al 2020;Storme et al 2020).…”

Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the automotive industry in Slovakia and selected countries

“…[3] Automobility is defined as self-organizing autopoetic, non-linear system that spreads worldwide, and includes cars, car-drivers, roads, petroleum supplies and many novel objects, technologies and signs. [1] SHS Web of Conferences 83, 01040 (2020) Current Problems of the Corporate Sector 2020 https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20208301040 Automotive industry is looking for both competitive materials and production processes, in order to act on a possible mass reduction and fuel economy which in turn involve a real improvement in the use of environmentally friendly products. [2] Automotive manufacturing is a complex and energy-intense process which consumes a significant quantity of raw materials and water.…”

Impact of digital transformation on the automotive industry

“…The factors that affect the automotive industry, with increasing influence and complexity, are diverse ( Winkelhake, 2019 ; Fritschy and Spinler, 2019 ; Wells et al., 2020 ; Dziallas, 2019 ). These factors include, in particular, globalization, which gives manufacturers the opportunity to expand into new markets, the diversification of consumers, and the accelerated modification and diversification of products.…”