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Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) used to differentiate their products based on mechanical features. Today, however, consumers increasingly want features defined by software, such as driver assistance, connectivity, and comfort-convenience services. The convergence of technology areas including electrification, autonomous driving, shared mobi...

The automotive industry is transitioning from a hardware to software approach to building vehicles. Vehicles are increasingly complex, with more lines of software code than in previous years. The concept of software-defined vehicles (SDVs) has gained industry traction, impacting product and feature development philosophies. SDVs are changing the...

Open-source software (OSS) architectures for vehicles are entering a new phase, reshaping SDV development by enabling collaborative, cloud-native stacks across the in-vehicle and cloud domains. This Frost & Sullivan study examines how automakers, Tier Is, silicon vendors, open foundations, and toolchain providers are converging to reduce cost and t...

07 Oct 2025  |  Global  |  Market Research

Software-Defined Truck Market, North America and Europe, 2024–2040

Software-defined Trucks are Experiencing Transformational Growth due to Electrification and Connectivity

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Software-defined trucks are vehicles designed with hardware-software layers that decouple the capabilities of the vehicle, thus allowing for updates to vehicle features, fleet management, and cloud-based analytics, as well as over-the-air software updates from one or several domains. Rather than being composed of fixed hardware mechanisms with litt...

Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) used to differentiate their products based on mechanical features. Today, however, consumers are increasingly looking for features defined by software, such as driver assistance, connectivity, and comfort-convenience services. The convergence of technologies including electrification, autonomous driving, shar...

Software-defined vehicle (SDV) development is reshaping Europe’s automotive engineering service provider (ESP) market, shifting demand from capacity-led engineering support toward platform integration, software lifecycle management, validation automation, and compliance-by-design. This Frost & Sullivan analysis assesses how original equipment manuf...

The automotive industry is undergoing a major transition and redefining the vehicle development process. To include numerous technologies tied to the concept of connected, autonomous, shared, and electric (CASE) mobility, OEMs have chosen to adopt the software-defined vehicle (SDV) development approach. With the SDV approach, OEMs extend features a...

The evolution in autonomy and increase in the adoption of driver assistance systems have generated a need to sense and perceive the surrounding environment of a vehicle entirely and accurately. The fusion of forward-looking sensor data has given OEMs and Tier-I suppliers opportunities to offer multiple ADAS applications at low costs, while providin...

25 Sep 2024  |  Global  |  Market Research

Benchmarking of North American OEM Software-defined Vehicle Strategies, 2024

North American OEMs have been at the Forefront of the Transition to Repeatable Avenues of Revenue, and Future Growth Hinges on Innovative Business Models that Use Data Monetization Strategies

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Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) used to differentiate their products based on mechanical features. Today, consumers are increasingly looking for software-defined features, such as driver assistance, connectivity, and comfort-convenience services. The convergence of technologies, including electrification, autonomous driving, shared mobility...