About us

The Resilient and Sustainable Automotive Value Chains (RAVC) Initiative is part of the  World Economic Forum’s Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains.

The automotive industry will need to transform its value chain to become more resilient and sustainable

This is a big paradigm shift for the industry requiring cross-value chain partnerships and efficient public-private collaboration.

Our approach

The RAVC initiative is derived from the Automotive and New Mobility CEOs Agenda, curated by the World Economic Forum and supported by McKinsey. The RAVC initiative is designed to support exchanges of the Forum’s Automotive and New Mobility Governors and Senior Deputies of the community.

Related initiatives

The Resilient and Sustainable Automotive Value Chains Initiative enjoys close synergies with different Forum initiatives and centres.

The RAVC initiative is designed to support exchanges of the Forum’s Automotive and New Mobility Governors and Senior Deputies of the community

Across different topics and workstreams, the initiative will also collaborate with different other organizations and Forum communities such as trade, supply chain, materials and public sector.

Governors Community

A community comprised of CEOs from leading automotive and new mobility partner organizations that convenes annually to ensure the long-term sustainability and resiliency of the automotive industry and society.

Senior Deputies Community

A community comprised of Chief Strategy Officers and peer position holders from leading automotive and new mobility partner organizations that convene on monthly to quarterly basis.

Sustainability Footprint Compass

The community has created a mapping of mobility relevant standards, regulations, tools and collaborations on sustainability globally. 

This compass will allow us to identify whitespaces, opportunities for collaborations in non-competitive situations and enable us to set priority areas for the industry.

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Landing page of the Sustainability framework compass with SDGs 3, 6, 7, 12, 13 and 15 and buttons for each to find out more (this content is exclusively available to community members)
A graphic displaying semiconductor supply vs. demand by node size in 2022

Value Chain Toolkits

. The current trends disrupting the mobility industry highlight the importance of transparency for key automotive value chains including semiconductors, EV batteries and green steel. 

For this purpose, the community created a toolkit that provides transparency in terms of demand/supply balance as well as regional consolidation and highlights strategic recommendations to address key industry risks through non-competitive collaboration.

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A call to action

In their Collaboration Letter published in early 2023, leaders from key industry actors along the mobility value chain call for collaboration and non-competitive information sharing to build more resilient and sustainable value chains for the sector.

A picture of the two pages of the collaboration letter endorsed by RAVC community members