Changing Automotive Supplier-system Brought about by Industrial Fusion in the Phase of Emerging EV Market

Abstract

In this paper, we describe an inter-industrial fusion in the phase of emerging EV market through the transformation of supplier-system in auto industry. Particularly, we discuss the process that electronics, software, material industries have been installed into auto industry.

Analyzing this issue, we indicated inter-industrial fusion has begun long before emerging EV market. Moreover, we also pointed some candidates which aim to behave a "System Integrator" in auto industry, instead of auto makers. For instance, they might be newcomers from other industry and/or foreign auto-parts suppliers, particularly German companies like Bosch, Continental and so on. Thus, it is a difficult situation for almost all Japanese suppliers because they have not experienced for developing and producing critical components of EV and also supplying a series of auto-parts as an organic system so far.