Within Robert Bosch GmbH, Bosch Mobility will, in the future, be managed as a business sector with responsibilities for its own business and its leadership team. The aim is to serve existing and new customer needs even better and faster with customised technologies and solutions from a single source.
With about 230,000 associates at more than 300 locations in 66 countries worldwide, Bosch Mobility will be the biggest of the company's four business sectors. One pillar of this growth will be the market for automotive software. Driven by the trend toward software-defined vehicles, this market will likely reach a volume of significantly more than € 200 billion by 2030.
As per the company, the second is the decoupling of software and hardware development, which means that cars will feel like new for longer, thanks to software updates.
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Dr Markus Heyn, Member, Bosch Board of Management, explained, 'Drivers across the globe want to seamlessly integrate their vehicles into their digital world. After all, we have gotten used to constant updates and new features on our smartphones. Now, we are applying this to cars as well.”
From 2025, the company expects that software-defined vehicles will be introduced on a broad scale. It also anticipates a threefold increase in software applications and even a tenfold increase in applications that access the cloud.
Organisationally speaking, the business sector will, in the future, comprise seven divisions. Some have been redrawn, and additional horizontal responsibilities have been created across all divisions.
More specifically, the Electrified Motion division will be concerned with everything relating to electric motors, from the e-axle to seat adjusters. Vehicle Motion will deal with vehicle dynamics, from ABS and ESP to steering. Power Solutions will handle combustion-engine technology, mobile and stationary fuel cells, electrolysers, and hydrogen engines. Cross-Domain Computing Solutions will develop solutions for areas ranging from automatic parking to automated driving. Finally, mobility Electronics will drive forward the development of control units.