02 April 2025. The 5th European Automotive and Mobility Services Conference of the IBA in Munich was another great opportunity to discuss exciting topics from the industry with colleagues and participants from the industry.
Here is a brief summary of the key points that our partner Andrea Zinober took away from this exciting event in the automotive industry:
The automotive industry is increasingly facing the challenge of overregulation and the administrative burden of technical and legal requirements in vehicle production. Vehicles are complex products that have to meet thousands of software and technical requirements. The use of AI can help save time in requirements analysis and quality assurance to speed up this process.
Collaboration between vehicle manufacturers and suppliers is required in many areas to meet technical requirements. This requires the exchange of data via open sources, but this is in conflict with competition law where the exchange of information between competitors is critical. With regard to the AI and the Data Act, there are contradictory regulations in the EU and clear guidelines for interpreting contradictions in the face of the regulatory flood are lacking.
While the EU’s goals regarding the transparency of marketing information for EU citizens are positive, the feasibility of greenwashing and green hushing is questionable if every single vehicle component has to be certified.
The new concept of mobility no longer includes only the transport and ownership of a car; it also includes new shared concepts. The range of electric vehicles has already been reduced. The charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in Europe is still far behind the level in Asia, but this infrastructure will be crucial for the electrification of transport.
It remains to be seen what the action plan for the future of the automotive sector, which was only recently adopted by the EU Commission at the beginning of March, will bring.
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