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Sustainability in automotive

Boardrooms increasingly recognize automotive sustainability as an opportunity to transform their organization, processes, products, and services. We help OEMS realize that opportunity.

A bold vision is needed if companies are to achieve carbon-neutral production and an ethical, sustainable supply chain, build a circular economy in automotive, and deliver on the whole promise of sustainable mobility.

To achieve this vision, OEMs face a far-reaching transformation that will take them into unfamiliar territory as they seek and acquire new competencies, capabilities, and partnerships. Data, and data sharing, will be vital to achieving automotive sustainability. And all aspects of the business will be affected: production, sourcing, procurement, IT, after-sales, and more.

What does sustainable mobility mean to you?

Strategic collaboration is essential for OEMs to deliver measurable environmental benefits on a global scale. That means extensive sharing of data and insights from across the industry, achieved through a comprehensive, end-to-end data value chain.

The imperative for sustainability in the automotive industry represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity for OEMs. Those that battle the current will soon find themselves struggling to stand their ground. The future of the automotive industry will belong to the leaders that successfully build sustainability into their businesses.

Capgemini is here to help you do just that. Using our framework for sustainable mobility, we can help you:

  • Commit to a systematic, holistic approach, with the right strategy, business models, value drivers, and culture
  • Act, working toward sustainability throughout the lifecycle, with sustainable mobility solutions and customer experience, sustainable operations, and sustainable IT
  • Monitor and report, ensuring up-to-date sustainability data is always on hand, together with the tools and techniques to instantly derive and apply insights

“The automotive industry has made steady progress on sustainability, but a more rapid acceleration toward a systemic approach is now needed.”

Alexandre Audoin, Head of Global Automotive Capgemini Group

Driving the Future podcast

Did you know that 85% of your old car can actually be recycled into a new car in the future?
Jean-Philippe Bahuaud, the CEO of Renault Group’s circular economy company The Future is NEUTRAL, and Capgemini’s group client partner, Sylvain Barthelmy, discuss automotive sustainability in an exclusive interview. They talk about circular economy principles, EV battery challenges, Renault’s targets, and strategies for enhancing recyclability.

For more such podcasts subscribe now:

    Talking sustainability with Capgemini experts

    The drive for automotive sustainability brings major disruption – but also massive opportunities

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    Sustainability in automotive: From ambition to action

    In our newest Capgemini Research Institute report, we examine the various aspects of sustainability in automotive in depth.

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      Becoming a Renewable Enterprise

      With data-powered insight, innovation, and collaboration, sustainability can evolve from a target to a mindset that drives the Renewable Enterprise.

      The Renewable Enterprise is Capgemini’s vision for the future of sustainable business.

      We can help OEMs identify and adopt technologies that are relevant to their intended use cases and to strategic priorities such as Intelligent Industry, customer first, and enterprise transformation.

      Capgemini and SAP’s work in prioritizing and actioning environmental concerns in our own business reveals that three elements are necessary: the ability to identify meaningful sustainability targets, an end-to-end data value chain, and effective data sharing.

      With these three in place, companies can introduce a culture of continuous improvement and monitor progress towards goals like net zero, waste reduction, and regulatory compliance.

      Research and insights

      Report

      Sustainable mobility

      How the circular economy will invigorate the auto industry
      Point of view

      Removing the finish line: How the circular economy will invigorate the auto industry

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      Podcast episode

      Future Sight: All roads lead to sustainability

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      Going above and beyond – leading the way to sustainable mobility
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      Driving the future with sustainable mobility

      Client stories

        Mobilize improves automotive sustainability with a compact, electric, connected and shared micro-vehicle

        Collaborating with Capgemini Engineering, the car manufacturer’s mobility brand provides drivers with an affordable and sustainable solution, to reinvent mobility in cities and beyond

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        The BMW Group strengthens its frontrunner position in sustainable supply chains

        The BMW Group strengthens its frontrunner position in sustainable supply chains

        Together with Capgemini Invent, the BMW Group drives forward an innovative change, communication, and enablement program that targets more than 1200 purchasers and suppliers to speed up the transformation for sustainable supply chains

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        IT contributes to automotive sustainability targets

        Capgemini modernizes a premium automotive manufacturer’s application landscape to accelerate its transition to a CO2 neutral enterprise

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          Expert perspectives

          Sustainability, Trends

          Tackling the paradox of electric cars

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          Nov 27, 2023
          Sustainability

          The paradox of electric cars and how France is taking a lead

          Capgemini
          Nov 27, 2023
          Sustainability

          Leadership in the era of automotive sustainability

          Markus Winkler
          Apr 7, 2022

          Meet our experts

          Laurence Noël

          EVP, Head of Global Automotive Industry, Capgemini
          Laurence Noël is a distinguished professional with a robust background in the automotive industry. She has more than 25 years of experience, and was previously Senior Vice President of the Circular Economy Business Unit at Stellantis. Leveraging a diverse background across management of business units, strategic planning and engineering, Laurence empowers clients to shape profitable and successful strategies, achieve transformation, and meet automotive sustainability goals.

          Emmanuelle Bischoffe-Cluzel

          VP – Sustainability Lead, Global Automotive Industry, Capgemini
          Emmanuelle Bischoffe-Cluzel offers practical IT and engineering solutions to support automotive sustainability. She has 30 years’ automotive industry experience, gained with a global automaker and a tier 1 supplier, in roles ranging from manufacturing engineering to business development. She holds four patents relating to engine assembly.

          Gustavo Rossi Dias 

          Global Automotive Sustainability Lead, Capgemini Invent
          Gustavo Rossi Dias is a renowned expert with 12+ years of international experience at Automotive OEM’s, leading multiple global, multidisciplinary teams and traversing strategy, technology, production, and sales. Throughout his professional and academic journey, Gustavo have been actively involved in promoting eco-digital practices in the Automotive industry, rolling-out ESG strategies, as well as operationalizing data-driven circular car initiatives.

          Markus Winkler

          Executive Vice President – Global Automotive Sector, Capgemini
          Markus Winkler works with teams across the world, helping clients shape their mobility strategies and invent what’s next in the rapidly changing automotive industry. Markus asserts that car-sharing, electrification, and mass-transit systems will change the face of mobility at local, and global levels.

          Daniel Garschagen

          Lead Sustainability in Automotive Business Unit, Capgemini Germany
          Danial supports automotive clients in their digital transformation, focusing on the customer experience, sales strategies, and digital marketing.

          Ralf Blessmann

          Executive Vice President and Head of Automotive Division, Germany
          Ralf Blessmann leads the automotive sector in Germany. Sustainability and data sovereignty are his priority topics and key to help automotive clients in transforming their business.
          Clément Chenut – Our Expert

          Clément Chenut

          Circular Economy Services Leader
          Part of Capgemini’s Sustainability Accelerator, set up to increase awareness of sustainability issues and develop practical solutions for clients, my focus is to promote and accelerate the adoption of circular economy business models. With Capgemini colleagues, we’ve developed a suite of CE services from strategy to digital/engineering solutions. These services guide clients from a linear economy that can destroy value, to a circular economy that preserves value – by minimizing the use of raw materials and resources, and reducing the production of waste. I’ve also led digital transformation programs, mainly in banking and transport, and was part of the Capgemini’s 5G Lab team, set up to help clients strategize, build and monetize the advantages of 5G.