How the Alliance for Automotive Innovation Uses IMPLAN to Power Economic Analysis

Alliance for Automotive Innovation Case Study (1)

See How One of the Nation’s Most Influential Industry Associations Saves Time, Cuts Costs, and Strengthens Advocacy with IMPLAN

The automotive industry is transforming at record speed. The Alliance for Automotive Innovation represents automakers, suppliers, battery producers, and technology companies across the U.S. To keep up, they need fast, accurate, defensible economic insights.

This case study reveals how the Alliance moved away from costly, consultant-driven economic reports and built an agile, in-house modeling system using IMPLAN. The result? Hundreds of district-level analyses produced in a week, $250,000 in annual cost savings, and stronger, data-backed communications with policymakers.

Download the full case study, Driving Policy Insights with Data: How the Alliance for Automotive Innovation Uses IMPLAN to Power Economic Analysis, to learn how Senior Director of Research & Communications Tricia Cauley transformed the Alliance’s data strategy, and how IMPLAN can empower your organization to do the same.

What You'll Learn in This Case Study:

A Modern Approach to Economic Impact Analysis

Discover how the Alliance uses IMPLAN to quantify the full footprint of America’s automotive sector (jobs, wages, GDP, tax revenues, investment, and more) across Congressional Districts.

The Problem with Other Modeling Approaches

Learn why relying on REMI and external consultants created high costs, long turnaround times, and limited flexibility for updates or scenario changes.

How IMPLAN Enabled a Game-Changing Shift

See how IMPLAN’s ease of use, transparent methodology, and powerful modeling tools helped the Alliance bring analysis fully in-house.

Real Results Backed by Real Numbers

Inside the case study, you’ll find the data points that now fuel the Alliance’s work, including insights showing the industry’s $1.2 trillion annual economic footprint, more than 10 million jobs, over $340 billion in tax revenue, and massive EV-related investment.

You make an impact.

IMPLAN quantifies it.
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