AutomotiveINNOVATIONS Award


Since 2005 the Center of Automotive Management has been conducting a study among manufacturers and suppliers to identify outstanding innovation achievements in the automotive industry. Based on the CAM database of vehicle technology innovations, the future trends of automotive companies are identified and honored as part of the AutomotiveINNOVATIONS Awards.

AutomotiveINNOVATIONS Award 2025 – Winners & Finalists:

The AutomotiveINNOVATIONS Award is based on the annually published AutomotiveINNOVATIONS Report of the Center of Automotive Management (CAM). For the year 2024/25, CAM has analyzed the innovations of 30 global automobile manufacturers and newcomers with around 100 automobile brands. A total of 575 individual OEM innovations available in series production in the technology fields of electric drive, autonomous driving & ADAS and infotainment & connectivity were evaluated. Among these are almost 130 – highly rated – world firsts. Criteria such as degree of maturity, originality, customer benefit and degree of innovation were included in the scientific evaluation. In addition, around 170 further pre-series innovations or studies indicate the development trends of automobile manufacturers in the subsequent period.

For an overview of the methodology of the „scoring“ of the innovations according to the M.O.B.IL approach of CAM see Objectives & Methodology and our summary for download.

AutomotiveINNOVATIONS Award 2025 – Impressions

Presentation of the AutomotiveINNOVATIONS Award by Prof. Bratzel to Markus Schäfer (CTO), Mercedes-Benz

AutomotiveINNOVATIONS Award 2025 – Media Response (Selection)


Impressions of Previous Years Award Ceremonies