Mobility

2021 will be a big year in the mobility and automotive industries after a challenging 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of the key trends predicted in 2021 include the growing electrification of vehicles; the adoption of micro-mobility such as ...

Restrictions on movement, changing consumer preferences and the heightened focus on safety triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic are anticipated to alter the future of consumer mobility, urban planning and construction. The surge in homeworking, reduced...

The in-car entertainment category suffered from the combination of social isolation measures and economic instability arising from COVID-19. The performance of in-car entertainment is closely related to the performance of the automotive industry in ...

International and domestic travel restrictions have led to declining sales in car rental in 2020, across business, leisure and domestic car rental, though the category is suffering less than others. Companies based in popular tourist resorts such as ...

New car market in Italy stagnated throughout 2019-2020, the result of cooler demand for new cars and negative effects from COVID-19 pandemic. Rising health concerns and lower mobility of Italians also had adverse effect on mass mobility sector. ...

Demand for car rentals has plummeted in 2020 as closed borders and other measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 mean a lack of inbound arrivals. Domestic demand also remains low as restrictions on movement continue. Early in the pandemic’s ...

Car rental sales slowed during the height of the pandemic’s first wave in Colombia, with many companies suffering from the lack of inbound arrivals. However, trade interviews indicate high levels of optimism within the sector and players are counting...

Car rental in Peru is reliant on inbound arrivals. The majority of Peruvians prefer to use their own car or land transportation to travel within the country. Consequently, the drastic decrease in inbound arrivals will negatively impact the sales of ...

The car rental industry in Finland has been hit hard by the impact of COVID-19, with the plummet in inbound and domestic tourism flows lowering demand for car rentals. Car rental companies which rely on partnerships with airports have particularly ...

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has triggered the most severe global recession in nearly a century. Businesses are operating in a world of anxieties and uncertainties, not knowing what will be the new normal or when output and consumer spending ...

The outbreak of COVID-19 will have a negative impact on car rental in 2020 overall. Current value sales are expected to plummet in response to the national lockdown that was implemented in Ecuador in March. Although car rental was not popular amongst...

Car rental in Norway will register steep double-digit declines in current value sales and transactions for 2020 as a whole. This category is heavily dependent on inbound tourism, and has therefore been badly affected by the collapse in the number of ...

Border closures and travel restrictions have caused the demand for car rentals (destination) to plummet in Saudi Arabia in 2020. With restrictions on movement within the Kingdom during the nationwide lockdown, along with the steep drop in numbers of ...

Car rental sales were decimated by COVID-19 and the lack of foreign visitors, which are its main customers and value sales are expected to more than half in 2020. The one positive was that as public transport was shut down for a couple of months ...

Car rental (destination) also recorded a steep decline in sales in Morocco in 2020, due to the nationwide lockdown. Under these restrictions, traveling between cities was prohibited without one of the limited selection of reasons for leaving the ...

Following steady current value growth across both business and leisure markets during the review period, car rental is experiencing a sharp fall in value sales in the United Arab Emirates in 2020 after the very sharp decline in business travel led to...

Overall car rental value sales are expected to be as severely affected as other sectors of the travel industry in Austria due to the national lockdown and subsequent travel restrictions following the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020. Leisure car rental ...

Short-term car rental is highly reliant on inbound visitors in Taiwan, with consumer segments centred around business and leisure travellers. With many car rental businesses targeting travellers from airports or other significant transportation hubs,...

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 is set to lead to a sharp fall in car rental retail value sales across both business and leisure markets in 2020, reflecting the very steep decline in inbound arrivals due to Argentina’s strict travel ban ...

Car rental has been severely struck by the impact of COVID-19, and overall current value sales are not expected to recover to pre-pandemic levels until 2023. Several bankruptcies are likely, especially among Poland’s numerous small, local players. ...