The Lifecycle Transition

€450 is not a universal European answer. It is a design constraint: a way to ask whether predictable family mobility can be separated from the financial, technical and residual-value risks of owning a car.

The chapter defines MML as an automotive operating model within a broader transition towards competition through continuity, then separates the mobility contract from the vehicle, retained material value and legal ownership.

Continuity requires lifecycle architecture: physical and digital systems designed so that repair, software evolution and organisational change do not prematurely terminate the vehicle’s productive life.