Frost & Sullivan Podcasts

Topic Discussed : United States Urban Public Transport Vehicles Market and Dealership Analysis, Forecast to 2022

Speakers : Jagadeesh Chandran

Key Takeaways :

1) The large, heavy-duty bus segment will experience the highest growth as increasing urbanization is forcing new fleet purchases to support the higher daily ridership

2) The US motorcoach market is currently controlled by 4 major manufacturers (Prevost, Vanhool, MCI – New Flyer and Temsa), all having a manufacturing presence in the US

3) Buy America content requirement is scheduled to increase from 60% US content to 65% US content in 2018 and 70% US content in 2020

4) The US transit bus market has experienced consolidation due to its challenging demand cycles and regulatory policies that have increasingly favored domestic manufacturers

5) Dealers who has strong regional presene partner with local service providers to expand their after sales foot print across the nation

Related Keywords: Frost & Sullivan, Urban Public transport, Transit buses, Motorcoach, School bus, Bus manufacturers, Bus dealers,Transit regulation & policies, taxation, Buy America, Clean air act

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Topic Discussed : Global Automotive Customer Relationship Management Market, Forecast to 2025

Speakers : Dorothy Amy

Key Takeaways :

1) Automotive CRM is evolving and personalized marketing campaigns are crucial in the era of Omni-channel retailing. Accurate customer insights, better segmentation, and proactive sales and service initiation will optimize a dealership’s profitability

2) Vendors providing open dealer management system (DMS) integrations will be largely favored by third-party CRM providers due to low integration fees

3) Large dealerships will involve a long tail of transition and, hence, are not likely to adopt cloud based CRM solutions until 2025

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Related Keywords: Frost & Sullivan, Automotive CRM  Dealerships, OEM Direct Sales, Virtual Showrooms, Customer Experience, Customer Relationship Management, Omni Channel Strategy, Dealers CRM, Integrated CRM, Automotive Cloud CRM, DMS Providers

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Topic Discussed : Strategic Evaluation of Opportunities in the Polish Automotive Market, 2017–2022

Speakers : Volodymyr Sklonchak

Key Takeaways :

1) The automotive market plays an important role in the Polish economy. It accounts for 5.2% of the foreign direct investment (FDI) and 16.7% of the country’s exports. The value of sold production of the automotive market was $36.8 billion in 2017, from which $20.1 billion was the value of sold production of automotive parts.

2) In total, 9 original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have passenger vehicles (PVs), light commercial vehicles (LCVs), and bus manufacturing facilities in Poland, and only 3 of them are companies with local capital. There are approximately 250 Tier-I suppliers and 800 Tier-II and Tier-III supplier companies.

3) New PV sales reached 485,200 units in 2017, which has proved to be the fifth consecutive year of growth. Used vehicle imports amounted to 869,400 units in 2017. New PV registrations are expected to continue increasing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.2% during 2017–2022.

4) In the Polish automotive aftermarket, approximately 85% of the sales is realized through warehouse distributors that supply parts to independent workshops, retailers, or directly to the customers. Original equipment service (OES) channel accounts for only 10% of the sales, and struggles to obtain higher market share.

5) The most influential trend that affects the Polish automotive market is electromobility. As European countries continue to push regulations against emissions caused by internal combustion engines, the Polish government has developed the Electromobility Plan, which aims for 1 million electric vehicles (EVs) on Polish roads by 2025

Related Keywords: Frost & Sullivan, Automotive, Poland, aftermarket, distribution of parts, aftermarket parts, vehicle production, manufacturing, OEM, suppliers, macroeconomics, market size, market structure, forecast, Polish, CEE, vehicles, LCV, electromobility, trend, trends 

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Topic Discussed : Global Semi-Trailers Market, 2017–2025

Speakers : Wallace Lau

Key Takeaways :

The global semi-trailer market is set to experience an evolution as strengthening regulations and fuel efficiency needs grow. Semi-trailers are expected to evolve from a commoditized equipment to an engineered product with advanced technologies to help reduce operating cost, improve fuel efficiency, enhance resource utilization, reduce payload weight, and enhance safety. Tractor-trailer combinations are expected to continue as the most relied upon method of freight delivery globally. Global developing markets are expected to be key drivers of semi-trailers as road infrastructure continues to improve.

Related Keywords: Frost & Sullivan, Semi-trailer, Market Size, Aerodynamics, EPA GHG Phase 2

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Topic Discussed : North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) Highlights, 2019

Speakers : Melek Ozturk

Key Takeaways :

This podcast represents brief information for 2019 North American Auto Show Highlights. This year, the show hosted over thirty new vehicle modes that is ready to take up roads in the States. SUV segment had the most variant new model options with upgrades in comfort, connectivity and safety features to increase quality of family trip experience. Performance cars bring the attraction to the show with legendary model revivals that are Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 and Toyota Supra. Another key element at the show happened in the electrification area, Infiniti’s QX Inspiration concept model bring futuristic design with longer range capacity. Automotive suppliers contributed to the show with their emphasis on next generation autonomous driving cameras, sensors and radars. Last mile solution pods displayed in the main stage of the show indicating new mobility solutions to passenger and goods transportation in a greener way. Start-ups and universities put their efforts in bringing artificial intelligence, data analysis and machine learning sophistication to car makers. Ford and Volkswagen announced their collaboration in the commercial vehicle (CV) and pickups arena in Europe, while declaring their intention of partnering in electrification and autonomous development in the future. From next year on, the auto show will be held on summer instead of winter. This calendar change is expected to bring more attractions from car makers, suppliers and customers

Related Keywords: Frost & Sullivan, NAIAS, highlights, 2019, autoshow, vehicle models, electrification, autonomous vehicles, concept, design, performance, SUV, car. brand, ai, machine learning, pickup, telematics, infotainment, radar, lidar, thermal cameras, hp, street legal, passenger car, north America, sensor

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Topic Discussed : South Africa Automotive Aftermarket Industry, Forecast to 2023

Speakers : Zaheera Ahmed

Key Takeaways :

1) VIO in South Africa grew by 3.3%; vehicle age continued to remain stable at an average of 12.2 years. Total vehicles in operation (VIO) increased to 9.97 million in 2018, which created incremental growth opportunities for replacement and maintenance-related services. 

2) Investment into the vehicle manufacturing sector continued to grow strongly with a number of OEMs raising production capabilities or introducing new models. Component manufacturers’ followed-suit with the need to improve capabilities and capacity. Exports of new vehicles are driving investment into the sector.

3) The non-OEM aftermarket constitutes 70%-80% of the sector while authorized dealers make up the remaining 20%-30%.

4) Suppliers increasingly participated in direct eRetailing – a number of online businesses have opened with great success. Traditional bricks and mortar retailers are gradually developing online capabilities to supplement the traditional business models.

5) The introduction of new policy in the form of Right to Repair is expected to have significant knock-on effects in the aftermarket sector. The policy will drive changes in business models, value chain, B2B relationships and pricing. Furthermore, the policy will drive significant changes in OEM strategy for servicing and parts supply.

Related Keywords: Frost & Sullivan, South Africa, automotive, aftermarket, vehicles, parts, distributors, retail, right-to-repair, parc, new vehicle sales, trends, vehicles in operation

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Topic Discussed : Impact of Blockchain on the Global Automotive Aftermarket, Forecast to 2025

Speakers : Benson Augustine

Key Takeaways :

Parts Authentication Through Digital Twining to Substantially Decrease Seepage of Counterfeit Products in the Supply Chain. Supply chain stake holders are likely to invest in smart contracts to effectively exploit the distributed ledger applications of blockchain. Data monetization through tokenization of user blocks likely to become mainstream as free data leeching by service providers is likely to end

Related Keywords: Frost & Sullivan, Distributors, EVs, Fintech, MaaS “mobility-as-a-service”, Maas, Parts Retail, Prognostics, Suppliers, Supply Chain & Logistics, Telematics, aftermarket, and Shared mobility, anonymity, asset tracking, bitcoins, blockchain, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, distributed ledgers, eWallers, ethereum, financial documentation, financing, fractional ownership, hash, investment, key, ledgers, megatrends, node, part authentication, private, public, security, smart contracts, suppliers, tokens, transaction logs, unified, ABRA, BITX, Bitse, Bosch, Bridgestone, Carblock, Cisco, Consensys, Fedex, Hyperledger, IOTA, Innogy SE, Maersk, Mahindra, Nonda, Renault, Ripple, Shift Mobility, Toyota, UBS, Ups, ZF

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Topic Discussed : Global School Bus Market Analysis, Forecast to 2025

Speakers : Vineeth Purushotham

Key Takeaways :

Strong push by the governments in China, India and the Middle East towards regularizing and standardizing the school bus will be key to the market growth and challenge the dominance of North America. Rising safety standards and increasing automotive traffic will lead to high occupancy rate in School buses. School bus safety standards in North America are beyond those for any passenger carriers worldwide. The school bus market in North America is highly mature in terms of adoption rates, safety and security of passengers and other regions are trying to emulate them. Enabling real time tracking and advanced connected technologies will ensure School buses to be preferred mode of transport, than economical public transport systems

Related Keywords: Frost & Sullivan, School Bus, North America, China, Middle East, UAE, India, Electrification, Global, Commercial Vehicle, Light duty,  Electric, Alternative Powertrain, BEV, PHEV, FCEV, Yutong, Sunwin, IC Bus, Tata, Ashok Leyland, Blue Bird Corporation, Emission

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Topic Discussed : Voice of Customer Analysis of the Global Residential Battery Storage Market, 2016

Speakers : V Naga Karthik

Key Takeaways :

1) Electricity generated through photovoltaic (PV) systems is mainly used for self-consumption or with a mixed approach. Only in France, the preferred model is of selling energy back to the grid. 

2) Electric vehicle drivers often own PV systems and see the benefit of using their battery solutions to charge the vehicles.

3) PV users are more likely to own electric vehicles (EVs) and use battery storage solutions for charging. On an average, 70% of EV owners see a benefit in using battery storage solutions for charging their vehicles

4) 15% of non PVS households in Italy and 8% of those in Spain indicated an extreme likelihood of purchasing and installing battery storage solutions in the next five years, the highest globally. 

5) 14% of PV users in Australia are extremely likely to install home energy storage in the next five years

Related Keywords: Frost & Sullivan, Photovoltaic systems, households, residential battery, storage, grid, electricity, electric vehicles, upfront payment, power purchase agreement

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Topic Discussed : Global Evolving Hyperloop Landscape, 2018-2025

Speakers : Joe Praveen Vijaykumar

Key Takeaways :

1) Drone delivery trials of various items including food, medicines, courier, post, and relief materials are happening in at least 15 countries across globe including Australia, the US, the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, and Switzerland

2) Humanitarian applications will witness rapid commercialisation, followed by military and offshore delivery. Applications that involve operations over populated areas will witness slow commercialisation due to regulatory hurdles

3) A conservative estimate shows that there will be atleast 2.2 million delivery drones globally in the eCommerce space by 2025; the market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 87.5% from 2017 to 2025

Related Keywords: Frost & Sullivan, Hyperloop, Virgin Hyperloop One, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Vacuum Tubes, Passenger capsules, Passenger pods, Elon Musk, Boring Company

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