Special Report on the Future of the Global Car Industry

The global car market today is a key pillar of jobs and economic growth around the world. However, the shift to electric cars and the falling price of batteries is challenging some of the industry’s long-held tenets, especially as new producers rapidly capture an increasingly large share of the growing electric car market.

This Special Report on the Future of the Global Car Industry – released as part of the IEA’s Energy Technology Perspectives (ETP) series – provides fresh technology and market insights as well as strategic considerations to assist decision makers in government and industry who are working to strengthen their competitiveness within the car industry.

The report brings together the latest data and information on car sales, production and trade globally, and it assesses the economic importance of the car industry, including material and components manufacturing, in different regions. Based on a quantitative assessment of the key drivers of cost competitiveness across the electric car supply chain, including for battery manufacturing, the report distils lessons learned from best-in-class practitioners.