Auto Intelligence (AI)

Apr 5 Edition: Auto Industry at a Crossroads: Tariffs, Hybrids, and Supply Chain Resilience Define 2025

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The global automotive sector is navigating what industry executives call a "perfect storm" in 2025. In today's Saturday deep dive, Steve and I unpack the five critical trends reshaping the industry's trajectory:

• 25% tariffs threatening decades of North American integration 

• Hybrid vehicles staging a remarkable comeback (+23% this year) 

• Supply chain resilience becoming a strategic imperative 

• Geopolitical realignment creating distinct automotive "spheres of influence" •

 Four strategic adaptations defining winners and losers

Featuring insights from Carlos Tavares (Stellantis), Akio Toyoda (Toyota), and Jonathan Smoke (Cox Automotive) on what these seismic shifts mean for manufacturers, consumers, and investors.

Listen now to understand how the automotive landscape emerging from 2025 will bear little resemblance to what came before.

🎧 What's your take? Will hybrid vehicles continue gaining market share, or will pure EVs regain momentum? Let's discuss!

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About Auto Agentic

Auto Agentic (www.autoagentic.ai) is a pioneering AI-driven platform transforming the automotive retail industry. Founded in 2024, the company delivers intelligent, adaptive solutions designed to help dealerships streamline operations, optimize sales performance, and elevate the customer experience. With a focus on ethical AI, seamless integrations, and real-time data insights, Auto Agentic empowers dealership teams—not replaces them—unlocking new levels of productivity and profitability.

Auto Agentic’s suite of intelligent agents handles everything from lead nurturing and inventory optimization to service appointment management and customer follow-ups. By automating time-consuming tasks and augmenting decision-making with advanced analytics, Auto Agentic helps dealerships stay competitive in a rapidly evolving market.


Auto Agentic (www.autoagentic.ai) is an automotive intelligence company architecting how AI actually operates across dealership organizations.

Founded in 2024, Auto Agentic was created to solve a problem no vendor was addressing: automotive didn’t lack AI tools—it lacked intelligence architecture. As features multiplied, coordination worsened, insight fragmented, and transformation stalled.

Auto Agentic exists to change that.

We design agentic intelligence systems that unify operations, coordinate data and workflows, and enable organizations to move from fragmented automation to connected, predictive, and self-improving intelligence.

Our work is built on three foundations:
 • the Automotive Intelligence Pyramid
• a coordinated agentic architecture of 75+ automotive-native agents
• and systematic transformation partnerships

Auto Agentic is SOC 2 Type II certified and trusted in regulated environments.

We don’t deliver tools. We build operating intelligence.

We partner with dealer groups and OEMs to architect how intelligence flows across their organizations—creating companies that coordinate rather than hand off, predict rather than react, and build advantages that compound over time.