followglobalnetwork

🔲 ELECTRIC EATS COMBUSTION? 20 MILLION ELECTRIC VEHICLES ARE EXPECTED TO BE SOLD WORLDWIDE IN 2025.





👉 Electric vehicles (EVs) are not only carving out an increasing share of the global auto market - by estimates, accounting for one in four new car sales in 2025 - but their rapid performance and efficiency improvements signal a disruptive transformation that traditional ICEs struggle to match.





👉 Based on recent data from leading EV research, approximately 9 million electric vehicles will be sold worldwide in the first half of 2025.





👉 According to projections from the International Energy Agency’s Global EV Outlook 2025, more than 20 million electric vehicles are expected to be sold worldwide in 2025.





👉 What’s driving this shift? The convergence of falling battery costs, intensive policy support, and mounting consumer demand for cleaner energy solutions is reshaping the automotive landscape. Frameworks such as the Global EV Outlook project an EV-dominant market in the near future - with some forecasts anticipating that EV sales may overtaking ICE sales as early as 2026/2027.





👉 Moreover, the change isn’t just about market share; electric vehicles promise lower long-term emissions and reduced maintenance costs, addressing environmental concerns and offering considerable operational benefits relative to combustion engines.





source: globalnetwork





#Transition #electricvehicles #innovation #combustion





Paul Stever Dharmesh Chandrababu Josh Spencer⚡ Sam Clarke ⚡Shayne Rees Armando Ciarlariello Ashvin Suri Simon Ridley LL.B (Hons) ESCM Mil. (IoSCM) Bernard Dijk van Isabelle Razis Makavos Aleksandar Preradovic Giannis Vikas Simos Lagopatis Stavros Rontogiannis Agelos Abatzis Christos Bisbikis Ioannis Dasoukis Iosif Beloukas Konstantinos Zagalikis





Peter Moutzouridis Nikos Argyrakoulis George Kechris Christos Sitaras

Evita Pantoleon Panagiotis Koutroubis Svetoslav Mitov Greg Theodoridis

Kristina Hanson Danae Kalantidis Vasiliki Dimopoulou Mortimer Boehm Yiannis Tsatiris Evangelos Manolis Aikaterini Siomopoulou Dimitrios Tsoukas Oana Stanciuc-Otat Christos Tegos

5 months ago | [YT] | 0

followglobalnetwork

🔲 EU INVESTING EUR 422 MIO IN 39 PROJECTS FOR ALTERNATIVE FUEL INFRASTRUCTURE ON TEN-T NETWORK.





👉 Last week, CINEA announced the results for the AFIF 2 funding, where the EU is investing €422 million in 39 projects to improve alternative fuel infrastructure on the TEN-T network. This includes support for 35 hydrogen refueling stations, and electrification of services at 8 airports and 9 ports.





👉 Over €297 million has been allocated to charge point operators for 3,744 charge points. Milence received the most funding at €111 million for 548 HDV charge points. EESTI ENERGIA AS and LATVENERGO AS had the lowest cost per charge point at €20,000.





source: EU/Electric Avenue/globalnetwork





#TENTNETWORK #charger #chargepoints #chargestations #milence #eon

#axionet #pulse #ignitis #repsol #colruyt #electrip #electra #eestienergi #entent #plugit #renewing #latvenergo #ortec #mobilit #neste #electricavenue





Tim Organ Charles Morris Ashvin Suri Julien FRIEDERICH Kenneth Adomaitis

Stephen Robinson Jaan Juurikas Christian Belloso Artem Shevelenko Benoît de Chabot Ivan S. Motuzov Christopher de Saxe Thomas Volk Néstor Alejandro Juan Rodríguez Michelangelo Aveta Thomas Jouandet Jasper van der Gaag

Roman H. Michael Warner Alistair Barnes Henri Overbeek⚡️Neil Dani Mark Smith Louisa Goecke Alfonso Díaz Llairó Corentin Divais Saman Bazzazan Lea Zajac Dr. Stefanie Wolff José Correa Suay Satya Vinjamuri Oliver Risse Marc van Amstel Emin Emre Göktepe Gent Grinvalds Janne Herranen Jérôme FREYDT Lukas Eschment

8 months ago | [YT] | 0

followglobalnetwork

🔲 BRANDS GLOBAL RANKING 2024.





👉 In 2024, Toyota Group led with 10.39 million vehicles sold (-2.3%), seeing a 10. 1% increase in Europe but a 7.7% decline in Asia.





👉 Volkswagen Group ranked second at 8.48 million (-1.4%), with a 10% rise in America and a 9.5% drop in Asia.





👉 Hyundai-Kia was third with 6.82 million sales (-2.7%), affected by losses in Africa and Asia.





👉 Renault Nissan Alliance moved up to fourth with 6.24 million sales (+1.5%). General Motors ranked fifth at 5.96 million (-1.8%). Stellantis fell to sixth with 5.32 million sales (-6.2%). Honda was seventh (3.88 million, -3.6%). Ford Group was eighth with 3.87 million (+1. 3%). BYD climbed to ninth with 3.82 million (+41. 8%), showing significant growth in the Chinese market. Suzuki closed the top 10 with 3.09 million (+4.8%).





source: globalnetwork





#ranking #brands #manufacturers #globalsales #topten





Rajendra Mhalgi Harsh Jagad Yue Ma Mir Sami Shivam Sharma Ben (ベン) Carstensen (カーステンセン) Samer El-Khoury Alex Cirstea Sahil Dalal

Amit Ahuja Rohit Khisty Ravi Kumar Rafael Magagnin Moraes Sander D'HondtO. Ogun Okyar Michael Headley Chad Albertson Gunay Ozturk



Alexandre Cottriau Anelisse Gil Rollano Marko Tufegdzic Santiago de Jesús Gonzalez Medellin Zoltán Cseresnyés Eduardo Peres, B.Eng Armin WinterhoffMicro Ice Kimberly GatelySantosh Tawar Borja González Cuenca

Emerson Pimenta CHINMAY WAYAL Hari Prasanth.S Evren Yardımcı

ANIL Joshi Pierre Chicoine Marcos A Paulino da Costa

Aidan Appleton Rūdolfs BrantsPankaj Kumar Shah

8 months ago | [YT] | 0

followglobalnetwork

🔲 CAR BRANDS US MARKET SHARE 2024.





👉 Nearly 16 million vehicles were sold in the United States in 2024, the highest volume since 2019.





👉 The big three, GM, Toyota and Ford make 45%, followed by strong Japanese shares of 38%, Korea, 11%, Germany 9%, Tesla 4%.





👉 GM, Toyota, and Ford dominate the U.S..



Hyundai, Kia Motor and Honda remain strong contenders, with 11% and 9%.

Tesla could take 4%, selling their BEVs and dominating the electric market.





👉 The U. S. car market is still strong in SUVs and crossovers, favored for their versatility and safety. Electric vehicles (EVs) are growing due to technology improvements, better charging options, and supportive government policies in 2024.





👉 Major companies like General Motors and Ford try to focuse on EVs, with oszillating success. Newcomers like Tesla and Rivian follow their own "zero emission" attitude. Key trends include the rise of autonomous driving and better vehicle connectivity, despite supply chain issues.





source: globalnetwork





#carstatistics #usmarketshare #Ford #GM #Toyota





Rajendra Mhalgi Harsh Jagad Yue Ma Mir Sami Shivam Sharma Ben (ベン) Carstensen (カーステンセン) Samer El-Khoury Alex Cirstea Sahil Dalal

Amit Ahuja Rohit Khisty Ravi Kumar Rafael Magagnin Moraes Sander D'HondtO. Ogun Okyar Michael Headley Chad Albertson Gunay Ozturk

8 months ago | [YT] | 0

followglobalnetwork

🔲 DOES TESLA PLUNGE OFF THE CLIFF IN 2025? WORLDWIDE SALES ARE OFF TO A VERY BAD START IN JANUARY THIS YEAR...

👉 Elon Musk, the world's richest man and an adviser to President Trump, is leading a team called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
He is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X social media.

👉 Tesla's global sales are off to a very bad start for 2025. The figures gets worse in most parts of the world. In Germany, where Tesla has a Gigafactory, Tesla was the longtime EV sales leader, sales declined a whole 60% in January. Tesla’s sales were also down 63% in France and 75% in Spain in January.
The Netherlands was -42%, sales also dropped 12% in the UK in January even as all-electric vehicle sales rose. "No Tesla cracked the UK's top 10 best-seller list last month, something that has regularly happened in the past,"
Australia dropped by 33% and one trend that's especially worth watching is what's happened in China, which makes up more than one third of Tesla's global sales. In China Tesla dropped 11.5% in January.

Would you like to discuss the reasons?

source: globalnetwork

#electricvehicles #smartmobility
#Tesla #Gigafactory #FSD #selfdriving #Rivian #BYD #sales #global #ADAS

9 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 0

followglobalnetwork

🔲 EXPLAINABLE AI FOR SAFE AND TRUSTWORTHY AUTONOMOUS DRIVING. REVIEW. THE SOLUTION IS SAFE X.

👉 Artificial Intelligence (AI) has useful applications in the perception and planning tasks in autonomous driving (AD), offering better performance than traditional methods. However, complex AI systems raise safety concerns for AD. To address this, explainable AI (XAI) techniques are suggested.

👉 This text reviews existing literature on XAI for safe AD and analyzes the necessary requirements in three areas: data, model, and agency. It highlights five key contributions of XAI for safe AD

-interpretable design

-interpretable surrogate models

-interpretable monitoring

-auxiliary explanations

-interpretable validation.

and proposes a framework called SafeX for integrating these methods.

Authors: Anton Kuznietsov Balint Gyevnar Cheng Wang Steven Peters
Stefano Albrecht
Institute of Automotive Engineering, Technical University (TU) of Darmstadt
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U.K.
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (Volume: 25, Issue: 12, December 2024)

source: Authors/globalnetwork
#AI #autonomousdriving #ADAS #trustworthy #IAE #TUDarmstadt #UniversityofEdinburgh #safex

9 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 0

followglobalnetwork

🔲 AUTONOMOUS DRIVING BEHAVIOURS FOR VULNERABLE ROAD USERS.

Interaction of pedestrians and cyclists with ADS-DVs and how to respond to the programmed behaviors of such vehicles.

Authors Automotive Intelligence team in KPMG Consulting and Yukie Koyano
published: 2024-11-21

👉 Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs), which mainly include pedestrians and cyclists, face a higher risk of injury or death in crashes with vehicles compared to passengers inside protected vehicles. It is essential for Automated Driving Systems-Driven Vehicles (ADS-DVs) to consider interactions with VRUs during their development and deployment. VRUs vary in appearance, movement, and behavior, making them complex to detect and predict.

👉 Detecting VRUs can be challenging due to their physical characteristics and unpredictable behaviors. Errors in detection or prediction can lead to severe consequences, so ADS-DVs must account for possible mistakes and have a margin for correction. Object and event detection and response (OEDR) play a crucial role in how ADS-DVs monitor their surroundings and respond in real-time.

👉 Various factors, such as weather and the presence of traffic devices, influence VRU behavior. Additionally, VRUs can behave unpredictably due to different internal and external circumstances. To ensure safety, ADS-DVs should be designed to follow traffic rules, predicting VRU movements based on their tracking of the environment and the context of traffic.

👉 VRUs should expect ADS-DVs to comply with traffic rules, as this consistency is vital for safety. Although both VRUs and human drivers may not always follow the law, ADS-DVs must maintain adherence to traffic regulations. Users must trust that ADS-DVs will reliably follow these rules to ensure safety on the roads.

source: Automotive Intelligence team in KPMG Consulting and Yukie Koyano

picture: by Örebro Universitet

#ADAS #VRU #Functionalsafety #safety #risks #traffic #injury #prevention
#KPMG

9 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 0

followglobalnetwork

🔲 ANALYZING VULNERABLE ROAD USER INJURY RISK.

Paper: Baseline vulnerable road user injury risk in multiple U.S. dense urban driving environments

Authors: Eamon T. Campolettano, John M. Scanlon, Ilan Kadar,Lev Y. Lavy,Daniel C. Moura &Kristofer D. Kusano

Published: 01 Nov 2024
lnkd.in/eVpYtFp2

👉 Understanding and modeling baseline driving safety risk in busy urban areas is essential for analyzing the safety impact of automated driving systems (ADS). This study aimed to use real-world collision data involving vulnerable road users (VRUs) to measure collision rates, crash severity, and injury risks without specific injury outcome data.

👉 From over 500 million vehicle miles, 335 collision events with VRUs were confirmed through video analysis, including 126 pedestrians, 144 cyclists, and 65 motorcyclists. Anonymized video and sensor data from vehicles with Nexar dash cameras were used. The collisions were assessed for factors like collision angles and time of day, using existing injury risk models to estimate injury severity.

👉 Results showed vehicle speeds at impact were between 0 to 39 mph, while VRUs ranged from 0 to 27 mph. Most events (95%) had a low injury risk (under 10% for MAIS3+). Collisions involving occlusions or unexpected VRU actions had higher injury risk estimates. It is estimated that around 55 individuals could suffer moderate injuries (MAIS2+) and approximately 6 could face serious injuries (MAIS3+).

source: authors/globalnetwork

#vulnerableroaduser #vru #risks #waymo #MAIS #traffic #injury #prevention

9 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 0

followglobalnetwork

🔲 RIVIAN OUTPACES FORD AND MERCEDES IN US ELECTRICAL VAN MARKET 2024.

👉 The 2024 US sales numbers were:
Rivian Commercial Van: 13,423 +66%
Ford E-Transit: 12,610 +66%
Chevrolet BrightDrop: 1,529 +300%
Mercedes-Benz eSprinter: 828 +new

👉 Most of the Rivian vans likely were delivered to Amazon, which contracted the automaker to deliver 100,000 electrified vans by 2030. While both had an exclusive agreement at first, Rivian was able to wiggle out of the Amazon-only agreement while retaining its deal to build the vehicles.

👉 Fords's E-Transit success is backed by Ford's powerhouse network of more than 650 Commercial Vehicle Centers across the U.S. plus over 2,300 electric-vehicle certified dealers. One of the A-clients are DHL and USPS.

👉 GM: A lineup of 300 dealerships willing to sell the Chevy BrightDrop in 2025 is a massive shift from ancient 7 dealers offering the EV van in the U.S. in 2024.

👉 Mercedes-Benz: The eSprinter, the first fully electric van in North America from Mercedes-Benz USA, bolstered sales of 828 total units year-to-date.

MB Vans: Worldwide EV sales in Q4 are up (+59% compared to Q3) reaching 6,900 units sold mainly due to the ongoing ramp-up of the new eSprinter despite a subdued market environment for electric vehicles in Europe. Full year sales of eVans reached 19,500 units sold worldwide keeping up a global EV share of 5%.

👉 The good is, the US EV Van market is rushing up. The sad truth is that the van market just isn't yet embracing EVs in any kind of actual volume.

source: globalnetwork

#vans #evans #rivian #commercialvan #etransit #ChevroletBrightDrop
#BrightDrop #esprinter #Amazon #Usps #DHL #Ford #GM #MercedesBenz #Tesla #Volkswagen

9 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 0

followglobalnetwork

🔲 2024: TOP 10 CAR MANUFACTURER IN CHINA.

👉 Sales from January to December 2024 for the passenger car market are 22.892 million units, which is a moderate 5.5% increase over 2023 levels.

👉 4 out of top 5 best selling car manufacurer in China in 2024 are Chinese.

👉 BYD strengthens its top position with 37,4% growth, followed by Geely with 28% plus in sales.

👉 Chery jumped from eighth to fifth place thanks to a 64.6% plus in sales.

👉 Volkswagen and Toyota are loosing further standing. Combing both JVs, Volkswagen would be second, and Toyota would be fourth with JV addition.

👉 SAIC-GM-Wuling performed good with a 14% growth.

👉 Tesla takes place 10 and pushes Great Wall out of the Top 10, with a growth of 8,9%.

👉 Top 10 shares 61.3% of the market. The five Chinese companies in the Top 10 share 39.3% of the Chinese market.

source: CPCA/globalnetwork

#Top10 #China #carsales #bestselling #BYD #Volkswagen #Geely #Chery #SAICGM #Tesla #GreatWall #Toyota #FAW #SAIC

Yutaka Shimakawa Janis Mons Daniel Wagner shun zhao
Dr. Jutta Hensel 尤雅 Yu Ling Ben Li Dr. Thomas Manfred Müller (穆拓睿)
Jiajie Ma Dr. Chen ZHAO 赵晨 Yongjia Wu Daniel Lescow Yuan-Yuh (Tim) Kuo
Shuozhi Su Sophia Yang Thomas Wintrich Shin Muto

10 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 0