Selected Impulses, Challenges and Expectations to the Future in the Automotive Industry

This paper deals about the mapping of possibilities to future development of the worldwide automotive industry. It is focused on the analysis of different factors that represent main trends of progress and opportunities in transformation processes on a global scale. The article presented focuses on characterization of the selected trends in automotive business that supports growth for near future. The subject of the article covers the tendencies and impulses to the development of the automotive sector. The next part of this paper describes main expectations in the eld of individual mobility and e-mobility. At the closing part of the paper is formulated the reflection that some trends considered as challenges may pose threats in terms of turbulent changes in the global automotive business. These risks, e.g. law, regulation, volatility in markets, competitors, etc., will do the most to in uence automotive markets and drive corporate performance in near future.