Transportation & Mobility

The automotive industry is navigating transformative challenges that are reshaping how vehicles and mobility solutions are designed, built, and experienced:

1. Sustainable mobility – meeting ambitious decarbonization targets, improving lifecycle performance, and designing eco-efficient vehicles.
2. Vehicle electrification – integrating batteries, power electronics, and new architectures to deliver high-performance electric and hybrid vehicles.
3. Agile Manufacturing – responding to global supply chain disruptions, reducing lead times, and scaling production efficiently.
4. Human-centric mobility experiences – adapting to evolving consumer expectations for personalization, connectivity, and seamless mobility services.
5. Data and AI – leveraging advanced simulation, digital twins, and AI-driven insights to accelerate innovation and improve quality.

Together, these challenges are driving automakers and suppliers to rethink development processes and embrace fully digital, collaborative approaches to vehicle and mobility innovation.

Electrification is transforming vehicle design and engineering, demanding advanced battery technologies, thermal management strategies, lightweight materials, and new vehicle architectures. To address these complexities, automakers rely on multi-scale, multi-physics simulation to understand and optimize system behavior. With SIMULIA and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, they can virtually test, optimize, and validate battery performance, energy efficiency, range, and safety. Automakers are accelerating development while reducing the need for physical prototypes.

A software-defined vehicle is engineered so that much of its functionality, from safety systems to in-vehicle experiences, is controlled, updated, and improved through software changes. As vehicles integrate more electronics, AI, connectivity, and automated features, their development complexity increases dramatically. Automakers must also meet growing regulatory demands for safety, cybersecurity, and traceability across the vehicle lifecycle.

To manage this complexity, SDVs require integrated development processes that connect mechanical, electrical, and software domains. Model-based systems engineering (MBSE), combined with robust simulation and virtual validation, provides the structure needed to ensure consistency, compliance, and fast iteration.  This enables automakers to deliver safe, upgradeable, software-driven mobility experiences.

Sustainable innovation in mobility isn't just about making greener vehicles. It requires reducing emissions across the entire value chain, from design and manufacturing through to use and end-of-life. That means lightweight design, efficient energy management, circular materials, and minimizing physical testing.

Virtual development environments empower automakers to simulate and assess environmental impacts early in the design phase, enabling optimized, low-carbon architectures before going to production.

Using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, companies can embed decarbonization practices throughout their operations and supply networks. Dassault Systèmes supports this through tools that enable lifecycle assessment, shared carbon-footprint transparency, and collaboration across ecosystem partners. So manufacturers make traceable, science-based decisions in line with their low-carbon strategy.