Best of LinkedIn: Future Mobility & Market Evolution CW 16/ 17

Over the past two weeks the mobility landscape kept its momentum: cities tightened the link between infrastructure investment and climate goals, battery and charging players raced to industrial scale, and data-driven services sharpened the economics of shared, electric and autonomous fleets. The result is a market that is converging on interoperable platforms, high-density energy solutions, and cross-sector partnerships that shorten time-to-deployment.

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April 16, 2025

Future Mobility & Market Evolution

Thomas Allgeyer

Methodology: Every two weeks we collect most relevant posts on LinkedIn for selected topics and create an overall summary only based on these posts. If you´re interested in the single posts behind, you can find them here: https://linktr.ee/thomasallgeyer. Have a great read!

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Urban Infrastructure & Smart-City Platforms

India’s $840 b infrastructure gap is pushing planners toward resilient, people-centric street design and public-space retrofits
Becamex and VNTT rolled out an IoT-enabled digital-twin suite for Vietnam’s next smart-city districts
Bengaluru released a Climate Action Plan that hard-wires mobility resilience into 2030 emissions targets
Munich commissioned VePa’s vertical parking tower, stacking 12 EVs on two regular bays and integrating on-site charging
Green-integrated parking lots proved they can cut urban heat, harvest rainwater and boost biodiversity
A real-time IoT parking pilot showed kerb-side sensors feeding a consumer app for friction-free space allocation

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EV Charging & Battery Innovation

Harvard’s solid-state lithium-metal cell targets 3-minute charging with 80 percent capacity retention after 6000 cycles
CCS retains its position as the reference architecture for heavy-duty charging; suppliers preview upgraded hardware for Power2Drive
Fuel retailers are redesigning forecourts as multi-energy hubs that mix high-power chargers with traditional fuels
iPark introduced a shared-infrastructure model that lets property owners monetise private chargers
CHARGETEC 2025 confirmed a European roadmap for dense, fully interoperable charging networks
Fleet operators flagged rising “blocked-charger” penalties, spurring scheduling and etiquette tools
EVIS Abu Dhabi and Munich e-mobility forums aligned regulators and suppliers on fast-track infrastructure scale-up

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Micromobility & Active Transport

A Transport Association of Canada paper codified governance levers for safe, city-wide scooter and bike roll-out
Brisbane equity research revealed that price, coverage gaps and helmet rules still depress shared-scooter usage
Gothenburg is piloting a publicly funded micromobility backbone with private operators adding innovation layers
Bentonville connected downtown to art districts through new cycling corridors that boost tourism spend
Voi scaled its Oslo fleet after data-driven rebalancing cut pavement clutter and response times
Decathlon spotlighted Rebike’s subscription model as a route to circular, low-cost e-bike access

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Autonomous, AI & Data-Driven Mobility

A start-up demoed real-time vehicle-segmentation AI that delivers lane-level accuracy without lidar
The SmartRDI consortium fused AI, AR and edge computing to build a federated roadside digital assistant
Digital Mobility and Corporate Mobility conferences shifted discussion from pilots to scaled autonomous shuttle networks
Live geospatial dashboards replaced static maps for fleet routing and disruption response
Industry voices called for a 2035 skills roadmap to close the mobility-data talent gap

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Fleet Management, Logistics & Industrial

Rightsizing frameworks cut idle assets and carbon intensity across mixed-powertrain fleets
Blackwood Plant Hire tripled equipment-use transparency by integrating Hiboo telematics
adesso and Logward partnered on a no-code logistics control-tower for mid-market shippers

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Policy, Partnerships & Talent

Karnataka signed an MoU with Bavaria to co-develop automotive and Industry 4.0 technologies
SAE WCX and MOBIS Mobility Day showcased Detroit’s OEM-supplier collaboration on electrification and software
The SAE Foundation expanded its K-12 STEM booth to seed the future EV-AV engineering pipeline

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Market Signals & Events Watch

Bauma marked 40 years of Volvo-Caterpillar Lokotrack hybrid crushers, underscoring off-highway electrification
The Formula South Invitational surfaced next-gen aero and powertrain prototypes from leading university teams
e4 TESTIVAL let consumers trial zero-emission vehicles and chargers on the Hockenheimring circuit
ACT Expo exhibits highlighted megawatt-class charging solutions from Kempower, Heliox and the wider MCS alliance

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