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Imagine cruising the vibrant streets of Bangkok in a sleek electric vehicle (EV), joining the ranks of the 60% of Thai respondents from the latest Deloitte 2023 Global Automotive Consumer Study eager to embrace an electrified horizon. Yes, the data sings a tale of transformation and preference, heralding an age where EVs are not just a choice, but a statement.
The Thai government’s 30@30 policy, aiming for electric vehicles to make up 30% of car production by 2030, is seeing a turbocharged push from consumers themselves. Even as the EV3.5 scheme trims financial incentives, the market buzzes with the electric fervor of new contenders. And with such dynamic shifts, it begs the question: How ready is Thailand’s automotive heartland to evolve in terms of its supply chain and skilled labor force?
There’s a stirring in the industrial undercurrents. Deloitte’s pens trace predictions of a 10-15% dip by 2025 in market values for Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) aficionados—manufacturers and component makers alike. Yet, in this strategic gambit, the nation has resisted crafting its indigenous car marque, opting instead to woo international investment and carve its niche as a bastion of ICE vehicle production.
This metamorphosis, however, doesn’t come without its own set of challenges. An 18% global reduction in the automotive workforce looms on the 2023 horizon, measured against 2007’s numbers. But fear not, for the narrative doesn’t end here; it’s simply the cusp of a new chapter whereby software takes the wheel.
Delight and intrigue lace the prospects as EVs become vessels for software that renders journies more seamless, more intimate. Envision the car as a chameleon, shifting features with the fluidity of software updates. From Deloitte’s visionary report, “Software-Defined Vehicles: Engineering the Mobility Revolution,” a forecast that nearly 90% of vehicles will be software-defined by 2029. We’re talking vehicles that can scan the horizon, decipher the dance of traffic, and tune their maintenance rhythms uniquely to your travel’s tempo.
And then, technology winks at us with the promise of Augmented Reality (AR), an ally against the fickleness of weather, enhancing our vision where nature clouds it. Let’s not forget, this software-centric revolution is more than just complex coding—it’s an invitation to industry growth across multiple dimensions:
- Autonomous Driving: The zenith of driving technology. Imagine cars coursing through lanes, interpreting the world with a clarity surpassing human faculties. It’s a realm of machine efficiency and safety born from the capable arms of computer vision technology.
- Power Train and Vehicle Motion: AI, the astute conductor of battery life, orchestrating charging cycles for longevity and range, tipping the scales to surpass the customary 10-year battery lifespan.
- User-Centric Experience: A personalized vehicular playground. Extend the ADAS’s embrace, tweak the sensory palate of your cabin, or have AI whisper the timely advice for upkeep—yours to command.
- Architecture Core Blueprint: A tech odyssey beckoning independent software virtuosos, much like the mobile phone ecosystems we adore. Here, meticulous software architecture ensures a seamless and secure journey.
- Data-Driven and Connected Services: Vehicles of the near future—learning, evolving through Over-The-Air updates. A paradigm where service centers bow to digital mastery.
Yet, with innovation’s strides, there is a shade of caution. Sibros.tech waved a flag in 2022, projecting dazzling numbers of vehicular recalls due to software hiccups spanning the global fleet. The electric dream demands an equal measure of groundwork.
So as the vibrant spectacle of the Thai automotive scene accelerates, we stand at a crossroads of unprecedented opportunity and thought-provoking risk, mastered by visionaries like Mongkol Somphol and Chodok Panyavaranant, Ph.D., steering Deloitte Thailand’s expertise into this brave, new era.
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