Drawing on a wide range of client projects, we provide guidelines for successful ESG and decarbonization strategies, including new roles, products, and internal processes for today’s enterprises. Industry players can rely on our assessment of the sector’s best practices and current challenges as well as market analyses of electric vehicles, charging infrastructure, batteries, and other key components.

These studies leverage our extensive automotive industry expertise, our deep knowledge of the evolving ESG regulatory environment, our vast global client ecosystem, and proprietary Deloitte tools to model and analyze the electric vehicle market and key players.

Featured Publications

Series: Pathways to decarbonization | Automotive

By 2050, automakers are expected to reduce CO2 emissions by 90%. To reach these aggressive targets, however, the entire value chain will need to be decarbonized. In this installment of our Pathways to decarbonization series, we explore a range of decarbonization levers that automotive sector players can pull to meet their Paris Agreement target.

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Study: Automotive pathway to net-zero

Today's sustainability decisions have massive implications for a company's future viability. Now more than ever, the pace and impact of current climate change demands bold action. In a scenario-based model, we describe plausible outcomes and the impact of selected decarbonization levers, depending on the willingness to change across global markets.

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Study: The key role of battery costs in automotive

In our Deloitte study, we highlight critical issues and provide insights on how companies can take action and strategically position themselves along the battery value chain.

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Whitepaper: Charging infrastructure as a business model

The charging infrastructure business model goes far beyond gas station, only with electricity. Rather, it will be a completely new market in which expertise from various sectors will be pooled. This paper highlights the potential of charging infrastructure as a business model.

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Study: The impact of BEVs on the future of automotive aftersales

The Deloitte study urges OEMs to update their business models to minimize future aftersales losses. Possible solutions include focusing more on customer retention and loyalization, driving efficiency gains in the service network, going digital both within the vehicle and in aftersales operations, changing the steering mindset, and exploring new types of services.

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PoV: Decarbonizing the supply chain: A focus on purchasing

This Point of View aims to set out the challenges this process presents for purchasing departments and the approaches to solving them. We will present a four-stage model for practical realization based on Deloitte project experience. The focus is on the automotive industry, but the implications are largely transferrable to other sectors, too.

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Study: Demystifying alternative fuels

In the quest for sustainable transportation, various vehicle propulsion systems and alternative fuels have emerged as viable alternatives to traditional fossil-fuel combustion engines. The study aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of different propulsion systems, focusing on sustainability, vehicle procurement costs, total cost of ownership, and overall realism for implementation. It will shed light on the potential system and fuel combinations for long-term future mobility in passenger cars.

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PoV: A multi-life approach to battery use – Why batteries are too valuable for recycling

In our PoV Multi-Lifecycle-Battery you will learn how a multi-life concept for the use of batteries can help to save resources and reduce costs.

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Series: 7 ESG challenges for the automotive sector

The automotive industry can make a valuable contribution to decarbonization, more sustainable procurement and greater transparency. Deloittes whitepaper series provides an overview of the most pressing ESG issues for the automotive industry and translates key industry challenges into actionable measures.

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Paper: Tech-enabled sustainability

Decarbonisation, circular economy, supply chain transparency: Today, businesses are facing a broad range of urgent sustainability imperatives. The complexity of related issues, processes and measures represents a significant challenge. Tackling it effectively requires technology: ESG data, digital capabilities and innovative architectures help organisations to orchestrate the green and social transformation in a holistic way.

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Sustainability transformation: drivers and trends