Nick Salkeld, chief commercial officer at LeasePlan looks at how he thinks mobility will evolve within the market.
Think about how you currently move around from place to place – how you get to work, or to meetings, or to day care or to get your groceries. What’s good about your mobility and what isn’t? Now think ahead to 2030. How is everything changed so you are able to move better, more cost-effectively, safer, quicker and in an environmentally-friendly way?
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As a company always focused on mobility solutions, we continuously ask ourselves – and others – what mobility will look like in the future, and what role cities and companies will play in shaping this future. Individuals have differing opinions on what mobility means for them and how it impacts their daily lives. With urbanisation set to grow with and technology to drive continuous transformation, the palette of mobility solutions and individuals’ attitudes toward them will continue to change.
Car is king
Although it seemed farfetched 27 years ago when Marty McFly rode a hoverboard in the film Back to the Future, we have since seen a significant number of innovative developments in personal mobility. Will we finally see teleportation or cities investing in Segway lanes? It’s difficult to predict the future, but one thing seems certain: figuratively speaking, cars aren’t going anywhere.
What we expect to see in the next 5-to-10 years across the globe and channels is a continued demand for the use of vehicles. Estimates are that there are about 1.2 billion cars now and there will be around 2 billion by 2035. This will be spurred on by a combination of developments, including population and job growth, innovation and technology that will make cars safer, greener and more cost-effective, and new types of individual-focused solutions that will make cars easier to access than ever before.
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More than ever, non-drivers (individuals who are/were not driving vehicles) are finding it easier to access cars. For example, Uber has grown almost 40-fold over the last four years and new ridesharing companies like GoMore allow individuals easy access to cars to get them to work, home or elsewhere. We are also convinced it is only a matter of time before driverless cars will become a ‘popular’ reality. With leading companies like Google and Tesla driving industry developments in this space, driverless cars are on their way. According to our research, seven out of 10 drivers say they would ride in a driverless car. Non-drivers will continue to see an uptake in options to access vehicles as and when they need them, which will increase demand for vehicles as well as the infrastructure to support them.
Researchers at the Illinois Institute of Technology say that the long-term effects of the shift to driverless vehicles will severely affect basic infrastructure and the way cities are designed. So it’s not just a matter of how drivers, or rather, users adapt to driverless cars, but also how driverless cars will interact with existing infrastructure.
And drivers? Drivers are already able to customise cars they buy to fit all of their personal preferences – from colour to seat height to accessories. Through car sharing solutions, private leasing, and an expanded used car market, drivers are also now able to access cars whenever they need it – from hours, to days, to months, to years. Vehicles will get better usage, spurred by car sharing and entrepreneurial car renting, and in the age of data we will be able to analyse car usage to make driving safer and greener.
