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The future of how we move

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Human moments of problem‑solving, powered by technology, are triggering industry reconfiguration. Discover how grassroots innovations are rewiring mobility—from streets to supply chains.

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Watch PwC’s Global Automotive leader, Harald Wimmer, discuss how human-centred mobility solutions like Delhi’s e-rickshaws are unlocking new business models and partnership opportunities. Explore the full human story in Economist Enterprise’s Lives in motion series, Move.

The dynamics

How street-level ingenuity becomes strategic opportunity

It starts with people solving real problems. A driver swapping a battery at midday. A neighbourhood kiosk evolving into a charging hub. A small business going cashless with mobile payments.

These everyday innovations reveal what modern mobility must deliver—constant uptime, choice, affordability, and access for all. As they scale, they open up entirely new systems—Mobility-as-a-Service, cognitive city operating systems, and new energy-logistics architectures.

That convergence pulls energy, mining, telecoms, logistics, finance, and manufacturing into a shared value chain—creating new business models, recurring revenue streams, and partnership imperatives. For leaders, the question isn’t whether mobility will change. It’s how to position your organisation’s assets, data, and partnerships to win in the emerging Move domain.

Your next move

Five actions to seize the US$5.86tn Move opportunity

Reinvent your business model around XaaS offerings

Move from long hardware cycles to frequent hardware and software updates and new recurring-revenue models that let customers buy features and experiences over time.  

Forge strategic partnerships

Partner across tech, battery, and logistics ecosystems. Combine OEM, tech, supplier, and city expertise to access specialised capabilities, accelerate innovation, and improve negotiating leverage.

Turn cloud, data, and AI into operational advantage

Migrate legacy IT, leverage connected-vehicle data, and AI to boost production, safety, total cost of ownership, and dynamic operational decisions—from routing to charging and fuelling. 

Build trust

Proactively disclose data use, environmental, and safety outcomes, and invest in dependable technologies and services to earn public and regulator confidence. Trust is built through transparency, safety, and after sales reliability.

Engage regulators and city planners to create enabling ecosystems

Co-design standards, privacy and security frameworks, incentives, and integrated urban infrastructure (EV charging, V2I, shared AVs) that turn regulatory constraints into growth enablers.

Domains of growth

Select your industry to uncover its highest-value domain of growth

Featured insights

Lives in motion

Where human stories meet industry shifts

PwC and Economist Enterprise present a six-part series that reveals how large-scale change—enabled by technology—is reshaping how we move, make, build, feed, power and fuel, and care, through the eyes of those living it.