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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...

The European aftermarket distribution ecosystem is a multi-billion euro industry, with distributors grouped into uneven clusters based on their size (revenue and network) and the operating structures of their respective buying groups. Frost & Sullivan independently plotted the top 10 European distributors in this Frost Radar™ analysis. In 2019, sel...

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 aftermarket is a significant contributor to waste and pollution including fluids, batteries, greenhouse gases, and used materials from parts. The circular economy is an alternative economic model that focuses on reducing waste and pollution by keeping products and materials in use for as long as possible. Remanufacturing, which is th...

This study examines major automotive aftermarket parts distributors and retailers in North America (the United States and Canada) between 2019 and 2023. The research highlights the trends, impact of technological evolution, shifting market dynamics, and product and customer engagement. By profiling key distributors and retailers, this study exp...