Automotive world is having a tough but important year in 2019.
The automotive industry is preparing to cope with a complicated year. There are many questions that will be answered, if all goes well, in the last months of 2019.
Certainly the challenges launched by autonomous driving and electrification are important and require huge investments by the sector.
It therefore seems inevitable in 2019 to see cuts in costs that could be heavy for the factories.
The markets of North America and China are in decline and this results in a more than significant general decline that depends directly on American policy.
Marchionne has inherited a plan for Fiat-Chrysler of over 8.7 billion euros of investments, 5 in Italy, by 2022.
Not many and not losing ground compared to competitors is certainly not an easy task.
Another succession to be managed is that in Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi. If Japan and France will not find a solution in defense of the alliance (at risk for the arrest of Carlos Ghosn) it could also come to separation. And it would not be good news.
In this panorama also the contraction of diesel sales plays its part.
In Europe today the diesel quota is worth 36% compared to 55% in 2012. The estimates give a further drop of up to 30% during the year.
Will this decline turn into an increase in sales of electric cars?
Hard. This type of car will remain niche at least until all governments invest in the promotion of incentives that drive a change in the paradigm of the entire automotive sector.
The odyssey of the robot car still remains. Despite the many proclamations and announcements, the problems have not yet been resolved and the technology is not completely reliable and therefore destined for massive dissemination.
If we only observe that of level 5, which is the maximum automation and that excludes the human use of pedals and steering wheel and leaves everything in the hands of artificial intelligence we can easily understand that there is still some way to go. so much.
A year of challenges then, important, sometimes exciting. How will the sector react and how will it embrace the current revolutions?
