Volkswagen

Volkswagen corporate is engaged in a major initiative they’ve dubbed “Together-Strategy 2025,” which ties together the electrification and smartening of cars. As part of that, they’ve promised to “bring highly automated driving functions to market as a core competency from 2021.” Recently, they introduced an on-demand self-driving car-like thing, which sort of looks like a character in Thomas the Tank Engine: Future Edition. They call it Sedric.

Audi, which is a part of the Volkswagen Group, has been more aggressive. They announced they’re rolling out “Level 3” automation—which means a car that can drive itself some of the time—in the A8 model this year with promises to bring fully autonomous vehicles to market in 2020. Audi has also promised that 30 percent of sales will be partially or fully electrified vehicles by 2025.

On the electric side, the company has promised a sporty little electric vehicle called the I.D. by 2020. VW had bet heavily on what it termed “clean diesel” technology as its powertrain of the future. But as last year's major scandal revealed, their engines weren't that clean under normal road conditions. Instead, the company's engineers had built them to run artificially well under testing conditions (and only under testing conditions). That's left the company with a reputation to repair and a newfound interest in the benefits of electric vehicles.

General Motors

GM’s big self-driving play so far has been its Super Cruise system for semi-autonomous highway driving. After a delay, Super Cruise will debut this fall on the Cadillac CT6. Drivers will only be allowed to switch on the autopilot when they’re on the highway, and the company has built sensors that track drivers' head movements and prod them to keep focused on the road, even when the computer is driving.

Of course, the company has plans to deliver fully self-driving cars in the early 2020s. They acquired self-driving startup Cruise Automation (for $1 billion) and have plans to hire 1,100 more technology-focused workers in California, centered around San Francisco.

GM has already delivered on a major promise in electrification with the introduction of the Chevy Bolt EV earlier this year. It’s rated at 238 miles per charge — and costs about $36,000 before tax incentives, which in California could bring the price down to $25,000.

The company has also promised that it will have 10 electric models in the Chinese market by 2020, and expects sales of 500,000 EVs there by 2025.

Hyundai-Kia

Hyundai showed off an electric, autonomous concept car at CES in 2017 called the Ioniq, but it has been circumspect about its plans.

But the Hyundai-Kia automotive group’s parts supplier Hyundai-Mobis has already laid out its roadmap for the next decade. The company will offer some components for autonomous systems by 2020, with mass production coming in 2022. They described themselves as in “fast follower” rather than “leader” mode. And they’re trying to make self-driving work without the laser systems that add to the price and complexity of systems like Waymo’s.

Ford