Introduction: Changing Geographies and Frontiers of the Automotive Industry

Abstract

The automotive industry (AI) shaped the industrial contours of the global economy in the twentieth century and continues to be a key player in the current vast socio-technical transition spurred by the digital revolution and the search for new mobility systems. While these processes evolve, there is a growing expectation that electrical and autonomous vehicles along with business and labor models based on online platforms and interconnected systems will come to transform the whole AI as we know it.