In the aisles of Automotive Industry Day 2023

• Back to the 3^th edition of the Automobile & Mobility Sector, which took place at the Carrousel du Louvre in October 2023.

The annual big mass of the French Automotive Industry was held last October at the Carrousel du Louvre. An opportunity for all actors in the sector to share and discuss the roadmap for initiating this transition to the electric vehicle and meeting the associated challenges.

Several issues were raised, including industrial, training and recruitment challenges, as well as distribution issues. The entire chain is going to change: we will no longer produce as before, nor the same products as before. Technologies are changing, and so are jobs.

This transformation is taking place in a context of uncertainty (conflicts, inflation) and is strongly marked, as Minister Bruno LE MAIRE recalled, by two major macro desires at the French and European levels: sovereignty and reindustrialization.

It is quite impressive to see how a century-old, complex and sophisticated industry so complex and sophisticated has managed to trigger such an evolution in such a short period of time. This is one of the main lessons of the look at the sector by the economist Nicolas Bouzou.

His second lesson evoked a change in logic on a global scale that needed to be well aware of: “The economy has become the variable for adjusting geopolitical strategies. The link has recently been reversed.” However, “the world driven by the economy is predictable and rational, because we are in the field of interest. With geopolitics, we are entering the field of passions, which is much more unpredictable.”

As a result, we are witnessing a reconfiguration of the value chain on a global scale with local anchors that requires working intelligently at the local and European levels.

In the same logic of perspective, the perspective, both on technologies and on the challenges of procurement and national strategies, proposed by Jean-Dominique SENARD, President of Renault, was very much appreciated by the audience.

We want to actively contribute to this transformation on its software dimension. 650 million lines of code in a vehicle in 2025, the challenge is significant in terms of embedding, updating and energy consumption, especially in a fleet that is becoming electrified.

Our first collaborations with manufacturers and equipment manufacturers confirm the added value that we can bring to the development teams and to the product.

And it reinforces our motivation to be part of this necessary logic of solidarity and partnership between actors in the sector, as Patrick Koller (CEO of FORVIA Group) very well mentioned in his speech and Luc CHATEL (President of the PFA — Automotive Platform) in his conclusion.

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