According to the study, the top 10 companies in terms
of filing patent
applica - tions were Bosch (958), followed by Audi (516), Continental (439), Electric cars are considered the automobile future — their devel - opment and parallel patenting is heavily incentivized by gov - ernments already pushing for quotas on electric cars: China, for instance, envisions as
of 2019 a 10 % quota from car manufac - turers selling cars in China.