Impacts of the Sustainable Automotive Chain: Faced with the Perspective of Electromobility in Consolidated Markets in Germany, United States and Japan

ABSTRACT

Regardless of the global crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the automotive industry is advancing through new and significant global renewals that arise at the heart of some directions of the automotive segment, especially with regard to electrification and vehicular hybridization, as an adaptive response to ongoing environmental issues. Automakers and automotive dealerships show concerns about these global megatrends that should impact the sector and are emphatic, especially regarding the rapid growth of solutions and business proposals that involve changing consumer behavior, especially regarding the sustainability aspect of the product, as well as the new concept of vehicle use, rather than the purchase of the good. The planet does not have the capacity to withstand current patterns of consumption and, consequently, production. Aligned with this need, the present work aims to analyze the impact of the sustainable automotive chain against the perspective of electromobility in the consolidated automotive markets in Germany, the United States and Japan. These countries have shown to lead research on electric and hybrid motors, where it is concluded that electromobility is fully inserted in the automotive industry of Germany and Japan, with a tendency to exclude fossil fuels in a very short time. In the United States there is a coexistence of technologies from internal combustion engines with electric and hybrid combustion, demonstrating that both technologies must coexist together and be improved over time, partially meeting socioenvironmental sustainability. © 2022, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.