Insight Reports

This report sets out how the SDV transition is reshaping the automotive value chain, where value is likely to move, and which capabilities become strategically important. It focuses on the hardware, software, cloud, data, and integration layers that underpin SDV development, before considering where the UK may have an opportunity to build competitive advantage.

How much can energy efficiency reduce the embodied emissions of a vehicle?

Material Risks: Beyond Batteries and Traction Motors for the UK Electric Vehicle Industry provides new insight into the wider material dependencies shaping the future of EV manufacturing.

This report examines the UK automotive sector’s growing skills gap and how AI and digital technologies can help close it.

Whilst UK policy remains committed to the current phase‑out dates for petrol and diesel vehicles, many UK manufacturers continue to develop technologies and components for export platforms and international markets

Magnet recycling and rare-earth free motors offers the UK an opportunity to establish infrastructure, secure feedstock flows, and support innovation in E-motor technologies.

Setting out a UK-centric strategy to transform road-based transport into a seamless, integrated ecosystem that is safe, efficient, sustainable, and inclusive.

The UK has opportunities for innovation within this geopolitically challenging environment to strengthen and expand its electrification capabilities. Expanding on the technology roadmaps APC produced in 2024 on behalf of Automotive Council, this report highlights opportunities where the UK can develop its manufacturing and innovation capabilities.

This report reflects on the growing importance of end-of-life battery materials across the global and regional regulations and critical minerals strategies, including the UK’s Critical Minerals Strategy, updated and published in November 2025.

The report covers a range of metrics to identify innovation opportunities, focussing on benefit and capability. It highlights four key innovation groups.