Everyone in automotive is arguing about EVs.
Meanwhile, the EU Data Act is quietly rewriting who controls vehicle data - and almost nobody in the showroom is talking about it.
Here's the shift in plain terms.
For years, the data a car generates - and the data trapped inside the systems that sell and service it - has been locked in silos. Whoever held the silo held the leverage. That was the moat.
The Data Act takes a hammer to that idea. It pushes toward access, portability, and interoperability as the default, not the favor. The people who use a product gain more rights to the data it produces. Lock-in stops being a business model and starts being a liability.
Think about what that does to the map.
Closed platforms that bet everything on "your data lives here and only here" suddenly look fragile. Open, interoperable players - the ones already built to share through clean APIs and portable formats - stop fighting the regulation and start riding it.
This isn't a compliance headache to delegate to legal. It's a change in where power sits.
The companies treating data portability as a feature today are the ones who won't be scrambling tomorrow.
We're building VehIQ on the assumption that open wins - because the law, and the market, are both heading that way.
Closed was the old moat. What's yours now?
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