McKinsey Center for Future Mobility

The Center for Future Mobility’s mission is to help companies, investors, governments, and social sector entities transform the way they approach mobility in all its forms—making it easier, more sustainable, smarter, and cheaper for everyone.

The McKinsey Center for Future Mobility (MCFM) works with stakeholders across the mobility ecosystem by providing independent and integrated evidence about possible future-mobility scenarios in many forms: autonomous driving, e-mobility, shared mobility, and more. This research is a guide to action for individual, public, and private sector actors alike. We recognize that mobility must be more sustainable, smarter, safer, less expensive, and more convenient for everyone. Our focus is on easing the current and forthcoming shifts this inflection entails while identifying the tremendous opportunities being created by it.

Focus Areas

Consumer

We work with our clients to reinvent and enrich the consumer experience when it comes to mobility, creating more seamless ground- and air-transportation options that are sustainable and improve the quality of life around the world.

Technology

Our aim is to help clients make quick, intelligent implementations in areas like autonomous-vehicle technology, connectivity, electrification, infrastructure enhancement, software, and many others.

Operating Environment

We support our clients and decision makers of all types with a tested, reliable fact base upon which successful, sustainable approaches can be built for future shared and e-mobility planning and action of all types.

Our capabilities

Consumer pulse check

Dynamic mobility user segmentation intelligence and foresight tool powered by continuous updates from around the world

Urban mobility twin

A digital “twin” for more than 2,000 cities in over 150 countries, featuring a unique mobility mix of ten transportation modes, population, demographics, and GDP, all driven by a scenario-simulation engine

Electrification radar

Sales and fleet electrification forecaster for tracking, monitoring new announcements and regulations, complete with a charging infrastructure simulator

Fleet decarbonization

A powerful aid for fleet owners making key decisions relating to decarbonization using zero- and low-emission vehicles; our fleet decarbonization tool aids this decision making while effectively managing costs

Mobility value chain analyzer

Value and profit pools broken down along the entire mobility value chain by mode for informing data monetization, finance, operations, and other digital services.

Mobility component database

A supplier portfolio estimator featuring over 100 components covering powertrain, electronics, software, chassis, interior, and exterior providing take-rates and revenue development for vital future transformation and related planning

Emissions assessment tool

Production and lifecycle emissions assessment tool for components and mobility usage supporting maximum fleet decarbonization and optimization

Battery design-to-insights

Understanding battery technology, chemistry, and cost forecasts are crucial to the changing mobility landscape; our proprietary tools reach deep into the component supply chain to provide the latest information for planning and decision making.

Our people

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