SUPPLIER EYE

Learnings from a pivotal year

At some point during the next decade, as they plot their business and technology roadmaps to 2030, industry planners will look back on 2017 as a watershed of events and trends that shaped the mobility future.

Surprises, setbacks, distractions and lessons abounded. From a global perspective, the inflection of future emission regulations across the primary vehicle-making regions are substantively impacting decisions to integrate new technologies to reduce CO₂. Europe and China are expected to maintain and possibly advance their implementation of stricter tailpipe regulations by the middle of next decade, while the U.S. reevaluates its Federal standards.