OVERVIEW OF THE CURRENT SITUATION (1st part)

Seeing the panorama of the electric vehicle market,  the percentage of sales is very low (1.5% of the United States market). There is some distrust on the part of the clients, in venturing to test an electric vehicle, because they have doubts of them and do not want to buy the first ones for uncertainty to fail and also, because they observe that the industry is not strongly established with a large number of vehicles or infrastructure within their countries.

Now, it must be taken into account that the autonomous vehicles necessarily by the trend, will choose to put aside a combustion engine that needs gasoline, and start establishing from the beginning, an electric motor to its units that are going to be manufactured .

There is a high degree of uncertainty on the part of companies that produce electric vehicles, especially due to the lack of knowledge they have regarding the logistics of the same companies. Today, there are very few specialized suppliers that offer logistics services for this industry, in addition to them, in the same way, it has not yet generated a strong and stable knowledge to develop its service, because it is an industry in which nobody is a pioneer at all, despite the fact that there are some with a considerable number of years providing the service . This can be seen reflected in the transportation of one of the main inputs for an electric vehicle, which is the engine.

Due to what we have already mentioned so far and due to various other factors, the investment is also perceived as risky. In addition, it must be considered that there is a decrease in vehicle sales, and that there is a probability  that a recession will come in the automotive industry, so that the period of return for investors is going to lengthen even more. The next 3 to 5 years will be crucial for the automotive industry.

Today, electric vehicles continue to be high cost, for reasons that the same production and logistics costs are high. The change that we will witness within the industry in 5 years, will be abrupt. Competitiveness does not stop and will not stop rising, so that many companies that do not have the resources to make large investments can be at risk, although it is expected that there will also be different alliances with the objective of reducing costs mainly .

We mention these points, because as in many other industries, the changes that are generated are gradual. What we hope to see in the first place is the growth in sales of conventional electric vehicles, which will open the way to more complex vehicles such as autonomous vehicles.

During 2019, we have witnessed the revelation of various projects in which large companies such as Lamborghini, Jaguar, Rolls Royce, Bentley, BMW, Renault, DS Automobiles, Mecedes-Benz, Peugeot, among others, that have brought to light their  autonomous vehicles, creating a great expectation of what we could see in the market between approximately 2030-2035.

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INTRO

Over time, technological inventions have emerged and have impacted the lives of specific societies and some others globally. Many of them have partially and even radically transformed both home life and the different existing industries. Mobility is a key element for the survival of the human being, but especially for the flow of the economy, mainly if we talk about the movement of heritage goods and the offer of services of different nature.

In logistics, which represents one of the largest expenses of companies, the automobile, one of the inventions developed by the human being, is one of the main tools that facilitate the mobility of objects and people. Due to the range of its use since its invention, and the strong influence it has on the lives of people in general, companies have not stopped investing in the car industry to generate innovation on vehicles, which now obviously are no longer just of gas, but also electric.

The rapid pace with which technology advances has brought new lifestyles that society has gradually adapted, so that there is a degree to which they normalize it. Currently, speaking of mobility and vehicles, most are land vehicles that need fuels such as gasoline to achieve their main goal, although today, electric vehicles are slightly present, and some others, propose new technologies in such a way that they offer a high degree of autonomy.

According to the DGT, an autonomous vehicle is one that has a driving capacity equipped with technology that allows its handling or driving without specifying the active form of control or supervision of a driver, whether or not such autonomous technology was activated or deactivated temporarily or permanent. It is of these autonomous vehicles that we will be talking about in the following post on this blog , especially their relationship with the logistics issue.

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-    CNAE. (2016). Coche autónomo, seguridad vial y formación de conductores. 22/08/2019, de Universitat de Valencia Sitio web: 

OBJECTIVE

Hi Everyone.

This blog is created with the purpose of sharing some news and information about autonomous vehicles related to  Logistics. I hope we could everyone comment on the nexts posts that will be uploaded periodically and give each other helpful and interesting feedback about the topic.

I chose this topic because I've always been interested in vehicles in general, but specially in cars. Besides, logistics has been one the main  areas of my interests since I entered studying my major in International Business, and distribution is a vital point in the value chain, therefore the evolution of it the new technology that could be implemented such as autonomous vehicles, play role that could change some  rules of the actual game.