Experts forecast deeper collaboration between the European and Chinese automotive sectors in 2025

In collaboration with global automotive experts, Monumo, a deeptech engineering company, has released a new automotive report which forecasts closer ties between European and Chinese automotive manufacturers in 2025, as China gains an increasing share of the global Electric Vehicle (EV) market.

The report spotlights China’s growing dominance of supply chains, ownership of key EV materials (graphite, lithium and cobalt) and their ability to scale up the production of EVs rapidly. This has left more established automotive powerhouses – in Europe, Japan and the US - striving to narrow the gap.

The EV transition is fundamentally driven by the ambition to achieve global net-zero goals. Innovation and improved technology, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), will be crucial in 2025 for overcoming sustainability challenges and improving the overall efficiency of EV production. AI will penetrate every aspect of EV design and manufacture, from supply chain management to manufacturing optimisation.

Despite multiple challenges for traditional automotive markets, 2025 is expected to be a year of collaboration rather than outright competition. Even as Europe seeks to compete with Chinese EV automotive markers, it will seek more cooperation to remain competitive. These closer ties are poised to be a defining moment for the automotive sector in 2025.