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.
The McKinsey 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.
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.
Electric vehicles
Visit our electric-vehicle page for the latest insights on this evolving industry, including interviews with McKinsey experts on batteries, electric-vehicle infrastructure, and changing consumer preferences.
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.
At CES 2023, the MCFM invited multiple executives, inquiring about their companies’ contributions to shaping the future of mobility.
Featured Insights
How to make mobility better for everyone
Let’s build future mobility. Together. The McKinsey Center for Future Mobility helps incumbents, disruptors, investors, cities, and NGOs to make mobility easier, smarter, sustainable and affordable for everyone.
The battery chemistries powering the future of electric vehicles
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Battery chemistry for electric vehicles is evolving rapidly, leading to repercussions for the entire value chain.
Preparing for liftoff: Volocopter and Wisk chart the path to the skies for eVTOLs
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Dirk Hoke and Brian Yutko, CEOs of Volocopter and Wisk, respectively, discuss the possibilities, challenges, and opportunities...
Can public EV fast-charging stations be profitable in the United States?
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More fast public chargers are needed to support the growth of EVs—but generating a profit at a public charging station...
Gearing up for mobility’s future with quantum computing
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Quantum computing is advancing—and it could put the mobility revolution into higher gear.
A road map for Europe’s automotive industry
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Keeping Europe’s automotive industry competitive requires not just a refined focus on existing strengths but also an acceleration...
Hands off: Consumer perceptions of advanced driver assistance systems
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No one is saying the steering wheel will disappear, but new McKinsey research found a greater acceptance of autonomous-driving...
McKinsey China Auto Consumer Insights 2023
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Consumer trends and technological innovations have reshaped the Chinese automotive market. OEMs need to accelerate their transformations...
Attracting and retaining tech talent to sustain mobility’s growth
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The contest for talent in mobility has entered a new phase as recruits reappraise potential employers.
The net-zero materials transition: Implications for global supply chains
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To provide critical materials for the energy transition, the metals and minerals industries must adapt their global supply chains....
Featured Publication
The Titanium Economy
In The Titanium Economy, McKinsey partners Asutosh Padhi, Gaurav Batra, and Nick Santhanam reveal this under-appreciated and under-valued sector of the economy for what it really is: a reliable source of high-paying, domestic jobs and soaring stock prices—a bright spot in an economy that has too often been buffeted by external shocks.
Featured video
McKinsey Automotive & Mobility Spotlight: Battery cell component market perspectives
In this concise 30-minutes webinar we will share the latest industry insights, challenges, and strategic approaches for local suppliers, startups, and new entrants to thrive in the rapidly growing battery cell component market in Europe and North America.
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Automotive & Assembly
Learn how we help automotive manufacturers, suppliers and distributors, machinery OEMs, and industrial conglomerates with their...
Batteries and energy storage
Global demand for batteries is expected to increase 20× by 2040. The Battery Accelerator Team helps companies unlock growth...
McKinsey Sustainability
Learn how we work with private- and public-sector institutions on challenges created by growing pressure on resource systems...
Industrials & Electronics
Learn how we help our industrials and electronics clients leverage new technologies, pursue growth, and improve their operations....
Operations
We help our clients achieve world-class operations. Blending strategic thinking with hands-on practicality, our teams of consultants...
Semiconductors
Working across the semiconductor industry, we help our clients transform and grow. In the last five years, our consultants and...
McKinsey Industrial Software Hub
Helping industrial companies create sustainable value and accelerate software-enabled revenue growth
Our people
Kersten Heineke
PartnerFrankfurt
Coleads the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility and serves clients across the automotive industry, incumbent industries, mobility...
Timo Möller
PartnerCologne
Coleads the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility with a focus on the strategic and operational questions around disruptive trends;...
Emily Shao
PartnerBay Area
Pioneers the transition to the future of mobility, navigating organizations through disruptions in technology, business models,...
Swarna Ramanathan
PartnerLondon
Helps drive McKinsey’s work in integrated future mobility, serving clients in the transport, oil and gas, and energy sectors...
Dr. Ruth Heuss
Senior PartnerBerlin
Co-leads McKinsey’s Operations Practice globally, and serves companies in the automotive and machinery industries on future mobility,...