Ride-hailing behemoth Didi Global recently announced it was partnering with Chinese new energy vehicle manufacturers to develop robotaxis to deploy by 2025. The move away from personal transport, paralleled by the intensifying thrust on integrated, multimodal, and sustainable transport networks, is providing a fillip to the shared mobility market. Such seismic shifts are underpinned by evolving customer expectations and a raft of enabling technologies, with total GMV from the shared mobility market set to exceed $1 trillion in 2023.

The Ray, a Georgia-based collaborative project focused on connected-vehicle infrastructure development along an 18-mile stretch of Interstate 85, recently added an OEM partner that will help with the second phase of rollout. Dubbed a “green highway of the future,” The Ray is a partnership between state agencies, a family foundation and private companies that aims to advance autonomous vehicle testing.

Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in Europe are competing for the top position in the connected car segment as its two key domains, connected services and human-machine interfaces (HMI), unlock tremendous growth prospects by offering new revenue streams, as revealed by Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis. Telematics services are expected to achieve a penetration of 90% in Europe, while more than 60% of vehicles will have wider (12.3+ inch) infotainment displays controlled by touch or gestures, with artificial intelligence (AI)-based digital assistants being omnipresent, by 2025.

According to a new research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, the number of insurance telematics policies in force on the European market reached 10.3 million in Q4-2018. Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 36.0 percent, this number is expected to reach 47.9 million by 2023.

Smartphone OEMs shipped a total of 373.1 million smartphones worldwide in the third quarter of 2017 (3Q17), according to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker.