Talking Heads: CASE on the road to nowhere?

Is the CASE narrative running into trouble? Hot on the heels of the news that Ford and VW were exiting their Argo AI autonomous driving technology venture came news out of Germany that VW had offloaded its WeShare car sharing operation to Miles Mobility, a German startup. To get a sense of where the industry is at with CASE, here are the thoughts of S&P Global Mobility’s experts in the area in the first of a new series of features under the Talking Heads banner.

The CASE megatrends – connected, autonomous, shared and electric – in case you’ve not been paying attention, have been the hot topics of the automotive industry in the past decade. They’ve even given rise to talk of the industry in the whole as the mobility industry rather than the more prosaic automotive industry.