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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.
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About Monumo
Based in Cambridge and Coventry, UK, Monumo is an Engineering AI company focused on creating complex engineering designs, at speed and ready for production today. Monumo's Anser® engine generates its own data based on the laws of physics, running up to 10 million simulations a day and reducing design time from months to days.
The team, led by Co-founders Dominic Vergine (CEO) and Jarek Rzepecki (CTO), consists of specialists drawn from Arm, Deepmind, CMR Surgical, Microsoft Research, The University of Cambridge and Ricardo, combining deeptech innovation and machine learning with traditional engineering expertise.
Monumo offers a subscription plus token based model and is currently working with customers in the U.S., Europe and Asia initially focused on electric motor systems. In January 2026, Monumo was named an ‘AI company to watch’ by The Sunday Times.
