The European Commission has published the technology roadmaps of the European Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Alliance (ECAVA), which members will put to industry at a session in Paris on 12 October, alongside the Paris Motor Show.
There are four. The software-defined vehicle roadmap aims at an open, competitive and deployable European ecosystem by 2030, built on common architecture contracts, interoperability and reusable open-source components rather than one mandatory software stack. The hardware roadmap, written with the Alliance for Processors and Semiconductor Technologies, proposes a chiplet-based European computing platform. The autonomous driving roadmap is the least settled: a working group is still developing a common strategy for data, AI and the automated driving stack, and it remains under discussion with industry and the alliance steering committee. The deployment roadmap addresses how Level 4 driving moves out of fragmented pilots into commercial services, and links to the ADACities initiative, which is taking expressions of interest from cities and regions until 20 October.
Why it matters: Europe’s autonomous vehicle effort has been a patchwork of national trials, and the alliance is the attempt to give it a shared plan. Two new projects funded through the EU DIGITAL programme, a secretariat and a collaboration platform, give it standing machinery. No funding figures are published for the roadmaps themselves, and the Commission’s own note concedes that roadmaps do not automatically create products, investment decisions or public acceptance.
Source: European Commission, 9 October 2026.