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1. Introduction: Changing Geographies and Frontiers of the Automotive Industry

Authors : Alex Covarrubias V., Sigfrido M. Ramírez Perez

Published in: New Frontiers of the Automobile Industry

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The automotive industry (AI) shaped the industrial contours of the global economy in the twentieth century and continues to be a key player in the current vast socio-technical transition spurred by the digital revolution and the search for new mobility systems. While these processes evolve, there is a growing expectation that electrical and autonomous vehicles along with business and labor models based on online platforms and interconnected systems will come to transform the whole AI as we know it.

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Footnotes
1
GDP 2018 data from IMF (2018).
 
2
Original equipment manufacturers.
 
3
Defined as total cost of ownership, which includes spending on buying a new or used car, gasoline, motor oil, insurance, maintenance, and licensing. Data from BLS (2016).
 
4
European Union (EU), North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASIAN), Southern Common Market (Mercosur), United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA, meant to replace NAFTA).
 
5
According to the Union of Concerned Scientists (2018), ICE vehicles contributed more than half of the carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides, and almost a quarter of the hydrocarbons emitted into the air.
 
6
By 2017, Didi Chuxing, Tesla, and Uber had surpassed the market value of all automotive corporations except Toyota and VW.
 
7
Estimations based on the premise that by 2030, 25% of cars will be EVs. U.S. News (2018, June 5).
 
8
Keiretsu are Japanese business clusters composed of manufacturers, suppliers, financiers, and dealers who work closely to ensure the success of the group. Kanban: a scheduling system to achieve Just-in-Time and reduce inventories. Kaizen: the Japanese approach for continuous improvement and worker involvement.
 
9
Hirst and Jonathan (1991) provide a detailed criticism of these formulations in their discussion of flexible specialization versus Post-Fordism.
 
10
The expansive cycle of the industry after 2009 has been one of the longest in history. At the end of 2018, the market and investment indicators began to announce the coming end to this cycle.
 
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Metadata
Title
Introduction: Changing Geographies and Frontiers of the Automotive Industry
Authors
Alex Covarrubias V.
Sigfrido M. Ramírez Perez
Copyright Year
2020
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Book
New Frontiers of the Automobile Industry

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-18880-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-18881-8

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18881-8_1