Aptiv PLC (APTV) Business

ITEM 1. BUSINESS

In December 2024, Old Aptiv (as defined below), a public limited company formed under the laws of Jersey on May 19, 2011, completed its previously announced reorganization transaction (the “Transaction,” or the “reorganization transaction”), in which Old Aptiv established a new publicly-listed Jersey parent company, Aptiv Holdings Limited (“New Aptiv”), which is resident for tax purposes in Switzerland. As a result of the Transaction, all issued and outstanding ordinary shares of Old Aptiv were exchanged on a one-for-one basis for newly issued ordinary shares of New Aptiv. Following consummation of the Transaction, holders of Old Aptiv shares became ordinary shareholders of New Aptiv, Old Aptiv became a wholly-owned subsidiary of New Aptiv and New Aptiv was renamed “Aptiv PLC.” The previous publicly-listed Jersey parent company, which was an Irish tax resident, is referred to as “Old Aptiv” throughout this Annual Report on Form 10-K. New Aptiv’s ordinary shares are publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) under the symbol “APTV,” the same symbol under which the Old Aptiv shares were previously listed. Aptiv PLC remains a public limited company incorporated under the laws of Jersey, and continues to be subject to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reporting requirements.

In December 2024, following the completion of the Transaction, Old Aptiv merged with and into Aptiv Swiss Holdings Limited (“Aptiv Swiss Holdings”), a newly formed Jersey incorporated private limited company, and a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of New Aptiv, with Aptiv Swiss Holdings surviving as a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of New Aptiv, and Old Aptiv ceasing to exist. Except as otherwise noted, all property, rights, privileges, powers and franchises of Old Aptiv vested in Aptiv Swiss Holdings, and all debts, liabilities and duties of Old Aptiv became debts, liabilities and duties of Aptiv Swiss Holdings.

In connection with the Transaction, New Aptiv assumed Old Aptiv’s long-term incentive plans and its existing obligations in connection with awards granted thereunder, and Aptiv Swiss Holdings (i) entered into a supplemental indenture to each indenture in which Aptiv Swiss Holdings assumed all of Old Aptiv’s obligations under each series of Old Aptiv’s outstanding Notes and (ii) entered into an assumption and/or supplement agreement relating to the Credit Agreement in which New Aptiv assumed all of Old Aptiv’s obligations under the Credit Agreement as the “parent entity” thereunder. In addition, New Aptiv (i) entered into a supplemental indenture to each indenture in which New Aptiv guaranteed the outstanding Notes and (ii) entered into a guarantee joinder relating to the Credit Agreement in which New Aptiv guaranteed the obligations under the Credit Agreement. Following the reorganization transaction, Aptiv Swiss Holdings (i) replaced Old Aptiv as a guarantor of the borrowers’ obligations under the Credit Agreement, and (ii) succeeded to Old Aptiv as an obligor under the senior notes and the junior notes, and New Aptiv became a guarantor under the Credit Agreement (and will act as the “parent entity” thereunder) and the indentures.

As a result of the Transaction described above, there were no material changes in Aptiv PLC’s operations or governance. The consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”).

References in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including the exhibits being filed as part of this report, to “Aptiv PLC,” “Aptiv,” the “Company,” “we,” “us” and “our” refers to Old Aptiv (Aptiv PLC before the Transaction in December 2024) and to New Aptiv (Aptiv PLC after the Transaction in December 2024).

On January 22, 2025, we announced our intention to pursue a separation of our Electrical Distribution Systems business into a new, independent publicly traded company, through a transaction expected to be treated as a tax-free spin-off to its shareholders (the “Separation”). The Company plans to complete the Separation by April 1, 2026, subject to customary closing conditions. The new publicly traded Electrical Distributions Systems spin-off company will be named Versigent, and will trade on the NYSE under the symbol “VGNT” following the distribution date.

During the year ended December 31, 2025, the Company incurred costs of approximately $178 million related to the Separation. These costs, which are included in selling, general and administrative expense within the consolidated statements of operations, are primarily related to third-party professional fees associated with planning the Separation. The Company expects to continue to incur additional expenses related to the Separation through the completion of the transaction.

In connection with the Separation, in the first quarter of 2025, Aptiv realigned its business into three reportable operating segments: Advanced Safety and User Experience, Engineered Components Group and Electrical Distribution Systems. Prior period amounts have been adjusted retrospectively to reflect the change in reportable operating segments, consistent with the current year presentation, throughout the audited consolidated financial statements contained herein.

Commencing with the first Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of 2026, Aptiv will rename its Advanced Safety and User Experience segment to Intelligent Systems, and will rename its Engineered Components Group segment to Engineered Components. There is no impact to the composition of either segment.

Aptiv is a global industrial technology company focused on enabling a more automated, electrified and digitalized future. We deliver flexible and scalable solutions that support our customers’ transition to an increasingly software-defined future. Our

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technologies reach from sensor to cloud, including the hardware and software necessary to support automotive and other industries on a global basis. Our Advanced Safety and User Experience segment provides advanced software and services, intelligent sensors and high-performance compute platforms; our Engineered Components Group segment provides connection systems, high-performance interconnects, and cable management and protection solutions; and our Electrical Distribution Systems segment provides low voltage and high voltage power, signal and data distribution.

We are one of the largest vehicle technology suppliers and our customers include the 25 largest automotive original equipment manufacturers (“OEMs”) in the world, as well as many of the leading aerospace and defense companies and global telecom operators. We operate 139 major manufacturing facilities and 11 major technical centers utilizing a regional service model that enables us to efficiently and effectively serve our global customers from best cost countries. We have a presence in 50 countries and have approximately 20,700 scientists, engineers and technicians focused on developing market relevant product solutions for our customers.

We are focused on growing and improving the profitability of our businesses, and have implemented a strategy designed to position the Company to deliver industry-leading long-term shareholder returns. This strategy includes disciplined investing in our business to grow and enhance our product offerings, strategically focusing our portfolio in high-technology, high-growth spaces in order to meet consumer preferences and leveraging an industry-leading cost structure to expand our operating margins.

Website Access to Company’s Reports

Aptiv’s website address is aptiv.com. Our Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”) are available free of charge through ir.aptiv.com as soon as reasonably practicable after they are electronically filed with, or furnished to, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).

Our Company

We believe that key secular trends, including automation, electrification and digitalization, continue to transform the core mobility industry, while also expanding in scope to impact a broader range of end markets, including aerospace and defense, telecom and datacom, and diversified industrials. Consumer demand for intelligent and connected solutions, as well as certain government regulations, are helping transform markets and creating new opportunities for Aptiv. We have organized our business into three distinct segments, which enable us to develop technology solutions and manufacture highly-engineered products that enable our customers to best address these secular trends:

•Advanced Safety and User Experience—This segment, which includes our Active Safety, User Experience and Smart Vehicle Compute and Software product lines, provides critical technologies and services to enhance vehicle safety, security, comfort and convenience, including intelligent sensors, high-performance compute platforms, and advanced software tools and services.

•Engineered Components Group—This segment provides connection systems, high-performance interconnects, and cable management and protection solutions that optimize the distribution of power, signal, and data for next-generation applications across multiple end markets.

•Electrical Distribution Systems—This segment provides a full range of low voltage and high voltage power, signal and data distribution solutions needed to deliver fully integrated, cost-optimized architectures. As described above, the Company is pursuing a separation of the Electrical Distribution Systems business into a new, independent publicly traded company, through a transaction expected to be treated as a tax-free spin-off to its shareholders.

Refer to Results of Operations by Segment in Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and Note 22. Segment Reporting to the audited consolidated financial statements for financial information about our business segments.

Our business is diversified across end-markets, regions, customers, vehicle platforms and products. Our customer base includes the 25 largest automotive OEMs in the world, and in 2025, 29% of our net sales came from the Asia Pacific region, which we have identified as a key market likely to experience substantial long-term growth. Our ten largest platforms in 2025 were with six different OEMs. In addition, in 2025 our products were found in 18 of the 20 top-selling vehicle models in the United States (“U.S.”), 17 of the 20 top-selling vehicle models in Europe and 20 of the 20 top-selling vehicle models in China.

We have established a worldwide design and manufacturing footprint with a regional service model that enables us to efficiently and effectively serve our global customers from best cost countries. This regional model is structured primarily to service the North American market from Mexico, the South American market from Brazil, the European market from Eastern Europe and North Africa, and the Asia Pacific market from China. Our global scale and regional service model enables us to engineer globally and execute regionally and to serve the largest OEMs, which are seeking suppliers that can serve them on a

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worldwide basis. Our footprint also enables us to adapt to the regional design variations the global OEMs require while also serving key growth market OEMs.

Our Industry

The automotive technology and components industry provides critical technologies, components, systems, subsystems and modules to OEMs for the manufacture of new vehicles, as well as to the aftermarket for use as replacement parts for current production and older vehicles. In addition, the industry is increasingly progressing towards software-defined vehicles becoming critical elements of the overall automotive ecosystem. Overall, we expect long-term growth of global vehicle sales and production in the OEM market. In 2025, the industry experienced fluctuations in global customer sales and production schedules, and generally increased inventory levels, primarily driven by various global uncertainties and global inflationary pressures. Global automotive vehicle production increased 4% from 2024 to 2025 (1% on an Aptiv weighted market basis, which represents global vehicle production weighted to the geographic regions in which the Company generates its revenue), reflecting increased vehicle production of 10% in China and 1% in South America, our smallest region, partially offset by declines of 2% in North America and 1% in Europe. Demand for automotive components in the OEM market is generally a function of the number of new vehicles produced in response to consumer demand, which is primarily driven by macro-economic factors such as credit availability, interest rates, fuel prices, consumer confidence, employment and other trends. Although OEM demand is tied to actual vehicle production, participants in the automotive technology and components industry also have the opportunity to grow through increasing product content per vehicle by further penetrating business with existing customers and in existing markets, gaining new customers and increasing their presence in global markets. We believe that evolving entrants into the global transportation industry, such as mobility providers, electric vehicle developers and smart cities will provide additional markets for our advanced technologies. We believe that, as a company with a global presence and advanced technology, engineering, manufacturing and customer support capabilities, we are well-positioned to benefit from these opportunities.

We believe that continuously increasing societal demands have resulted in three key trends that serve as the basis for the next wave of technology advancement across multiple industries, including automotive. We aim to continue developing leading edge technology focused on addressing these trends, and apply that technology toward products with sustainable margins that enable our customers to produce distinctive market-leading products. We have identified a core portfolio of products that draw on our technical strengths and align with these trends where we believe we can provide differentiation.

Automation. In the automotive industry, Automation refers to safety, comfort and convenience features. OEM customers continue to focus on improving vehicle occupant and vulnerable road user safety to meet increasingly stringent regulatory requirements in various markets. As a result, suppliers are focused on developing technologies aimed at protecting vehicle occupants when a crash occurs, with advanced driver assistance systems that reduce driver distractions, as well as automated safety features that proactively mitigate the risk of a crash occurring, such as lane departure warning and centering systems. These technologies have also expanded to include convenience features such as adaptive cruise control, traffic jam assist, and hands-free driving, which improve both safety and convenience for end consumers.

Further, Automation extends into applications such as robots in manufacturing facilities, drones for commercial and defense applications and other increasing autonomous systems across diversified industrial applications.

Electrification. In the automotive industry, Electrification refers to technologies designed to reduce emissions, improve fuel economy and minimize the environmental impact of vehicles, while also supporting increasing electrical and electronics content such as sensors, compute and actuators. As a result, there is a need for innovations that result in significant improvements in carbon emissions and performance. We are developing key enabling technologies in the areas of vehicle charging and vehicle power distribution and control, which are essential to the introduction of our customers’ increasingly electrified vehicle platforms.

Moreover, Electrification applies well beyond the automotive industry to other increasingly electrified devices and systems, as well as the infrastructure that supports them, such as data centers and energy storage systems.

Digitalization. In the automotive industry, Digitalization refers to connectivity, software-defined solutions, and the ability to evolve and improve over a vehicle’s lifecycle in response to consumer demand for greater safety, personalization, productivity and convenience features. This shift, in turn, is driving increased demand for electrical and electronic architecture as the foundation for this content. These technologies are designed to seamlessly integrate vehicles into their operating environment, while providing drivers with connectivity to consumer ecosystems, and data and insights to OEMs via over-the-air (“OTA”) technology.

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Across multiple industries, devices and systems themselves are becoming increasingly software-defined, with the capability to being continuously updated, while also leveraging artificial intelligence to deliver insights, transform operations and unlock value.

Convergence of Automation, Electrification and Digitalization

We expect the trends of automation, electrification and digitalization to create growth opportunities as they drive similar product requirements for mission-critical applications across multiple industries, namely increased demand for advanced software and optimized hardware. Intelligent, software-defined solutions, such as increasingly capable automated driving technologies, offer significant societal benefits and create long-term growth opportunities for our product offerings, including new customers such as mobility providers, telecommunications network operators and smart cities. Growth opportunities across the automotive and other industries will be driven by increased hardware and software content, greater computing power and software requirements, enhanced solutions for lifecycle management and connectivity, and continued electrification. We believe the complexity of these systems will also require ongoing software support services, as they will be continuously upgraded with new features and performance enhancements.

As part of our strategy to harness the full potential of connected intelligent systems across industries, strengthen our capabilities in software-defined mobility and enable advanced smart vehicle architecture changes, we acquired Wind River Systems, Inc. (“Wind River”) in December 2022. Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for the intelligent edge for multiple industries, including automotive, by leveraging mixed-criticality software products and solutions enabling customers to develop in the cloud, deploy OTA and run and manage software at the vehicle edge.

We are also continuing to develop market-leading automated driving solutions, such as automated driving software, sensing and perception technologies enhanced through artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as the underlying architecture technologies capable of supporting safety-critical applications. We believe we are well-aligned with industry technology trends that will help to support sustainable future growth in this space and have partnered with leaders in their respective fields to advance the pace of development and commercialization of these emerging technologies.

In March 2020, we completed a transaction with Hyundai Motor Group (“Hyundai”) to form Motional AD LLC (“Motional”), a joint venture focused on the design, development and commercialization of autonomous driving technologies. Although we believe our strategic partnerships have us well-aligned with industry technology trends in these evolving areas, the timeline necessary to produce commercially viable autonomous vehicles has been extended and is still subject to significant uncertainty, which resulted in additional funding requirements for Motional. In April 2024, Aptiv and Hyundai entered into an agreement to restructure Aptiv’s ownership interest in Motional and for Hyundai to provide additional funding to Motional, which also eliminated any requirements for additional future funding from Aptiv. These transactions, which were completed in May 2024, resulted in the reduction of our common equity interest in Motional from 50% as of December 31, 2023 to approximately 15%. In May 2025, Hyundai provided additional funding to Motional, further reducing Aptiv’s common equity interest in Motional from 15% as of March 31, 2025 to approximately 13% as of December 31, 2025. Refer to Note 5. Investments in Affiliates to the audited consolidated financial statements contained herein for further information on these transactions.

Standardization of Sourcing by OEMs

Many OEMs are continuing to develop vehicle platforms intended to increase standardization, reduce per-unit cost and increase capital efficiency and profitability. In addition, geopolitical tensions are also causing them to regionalize their supply chains. As a result, OEMs prefer suppliers that have the capability to manufacture products on a global basis with manufacturing and design flexibility to adapt to regional variations. Suppliers with global scale and strong design, engineering and manufacturing capabilities are best positioned to benefit from this trend. OEMs are also increasingly looking to their suppliers to simplify vehicle design and assembly processes to reduce costs. Suppliers that can provide fully engineered solutions, systems and pre-assembled combinations of component parts are positioned to leverage the trend toward system sourcing from global suppliers.

Shorter Product Development Cycles

As a result of government regulations and customer preferences, OEMs are requiring suppliers to respond faster with new designs and product innovations. While these trends are more prevalent in mature markets, certain key growth markets are advancing rapidly towards the regulatory standards and consumer preferences of the more mature markets. Suppliers with strong technologies, robust global engineering and development capabilities will be best positioned to meet OEM demands for rapid innovation.

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Products

Our organizational structure and management reporting support the management of these core product lines:

Advanced Safety and User Experience. This segment provides critical technologies and services to enhance vehicle safety, security, comfort and convenience, including intelligent sensors, high-performance compute, advanced software for applications such as Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and User Experience, as well as tools and services.

•Advanced Safety includes solutions that enable advanced safety features and vehicle automation, as well as radar, vision and other sensing technologies.

•User Experience enables in-cabin solutions around infotainment, driver interface and interior sensing.

•Smart Vehicle Compute and Software consists of zone control and centralized compute platforms, as well as edge-to-cloud DevOps tools.

Engineered Components Group. This segment provides connection systems, high-performance interconnects, and cable management and protection solutions that optimize the distribution of power, signal and data for next-generation applications across multiple end markets.

Electrical Distribution Systems. This segment provides a full range of low voltage and high voltage power, signal and data distribution solutions needed to deliver fully integrated, cost-optimized architectures. As described above, the Company is pursuing a separation of the Electrical Distribution Systems business into a new, independent publicly traded company, through a transaction expected to be treated as a tax-free spin-off to its shareholders.

Competition

The automotive technology and components industry remains extremely competitive. Furthermore, the rapidly evolving nature of the markets in which we compete has attracted, and may continue to attract, new entrants, particularly in best cost countries such as China and in areas of evolving vehicle technologies such as intelligent systems software, automated driving and mobility solutions, which has attracted competitors from outside the traditional automotive industry. OEMs rigorously evaluate suppliers on the basis of product quality, price, reliability and timeliness of delivery, product design capability, technical expertise and development capability, new product innovation, financial viability, application of lean principles, operational flexibility, customer service and overall management. In addition, our customers generally require that we demonstrate improved efficiencies, through cost reductions and/or price improvement, on a year-over-year basis.

Our key competitors in each of our operating segments include but are not limited to:

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Customers

We sell our products and services to the major global OEMs in every region of the world. Our ten largest customers accounted for approximately 56% of our total net sales for the year ended December 31, 2025, which included approximately 10% to an individual Global OEM.

Supply Relationships with Our Customers

We typically supply products to our OEM customers through purchase orders, which are generally governed by general terms and conditions established by each OEM. Although the terms and conditions vary from customer to customer, they typically contemplate a relationship under which our customers place orders for their requirements of specific components supplied for particular vehicles but are not required to purchase any minimum amount of products from us. These relationships typically extend over the life of the related vehicle. Prices are negotiated with respect to each business award, which may be subject to adjustments under certain circumstances, such as commodity or foreign exchange escalation/de-escalation clauses, significant changes in direct labor costs, for specification/design changes during the life of the program or for cost reductions achieved by us. The terms and conditions typically provide that we are subject to a warranty on the products supplied; in most cases, the duration of such warranty is coterminous with the warranty offered by the OEM to the end-user of the vehicle. We may also be obligated to share in all or a part of recall costs if the OEM recalls its vehicles for defects attributable to our products.

Individual purchase orders are terminable for cause or non-performance and, in most cases, upon our insolvency and certain change of control events. In addition, many of our OEM customers have the option to terminate for convenience on certain programs, which permits our customers to impose pressure on pricing during the life of the vehicle program, and issue purchase contracts for less than the duration of the vehicle program, which potentially reduces our profit margins and increases the risk of our losing future sales under those purchase contracts. We manufacture and ship based on customer release schedules, normally provided on a weekly basis, which can vary due to cyclical automobile production or dealer inventory levels.

Although customer programs typically extend to future periods, and although there is an expectation that we will supply certain levels of OEM production during such future periods, customer agreements do not necessarily constitute firm orders. Firm orders are generally limited to specific and authorized customer purchase order releases placed with our manufacturing and distribution centers for actual production and order fulfillment. Firm orders are typically fulfilled as promptly as possible from the conversion of available raw materials, sub-components and work-in-process inventory for OEM orders and from current on-hand finished goods inventory for aftermarket orders. The dollar amount of such purchase order releases on hand and not processed at any point in time is not believed to be significant based upon the time frame involved.

Materials

We procure our raw materials from a variety of suppliers around the world. Generally, we seek to obtain materials in the region in which our products are manufactured in order to minimize transportation and other costs. The most significant raw materials we use to manufacture our products include copper and resins. As of December 31, 2025, we have not experienced any significant shortages of raw materials, however, as a result of our customers’ recent production volatility and cancellations, our balance of productive, raw and component material inventories has increased substantially from customary levels. These changes to the production environment were primarily driven by the global supply chain disruptions that impacted the automotive industry at times during previous years. We continue to actively monitor and manage inventory levels across all inventory types in order to maximize both supply continuity and the efficient use of working capital. Normally we do not carry inventories of such raw materials in excess of those reasonably required to meet our production and shipping schedules.

Commodity cost volatility, most notably related to copper, petroleum-based resin products and fuel, is a challenge for us and our industry. Recently, the industry has been subjected to increased pricing pressures, specifically in relation to these commodities, which have experienced significant volatility in price. We have also been impacted globally by increased overall inflation as a result of a variety of global trends. We are continually seeking to manage these and other material-related cost pressures using a combination of strategies, including working with our suppliers to mitigate costs, seeking alternative product designs and material specifications, combining our purchase requirements with our customers and/or suppliers, changing suppliers, hedging of certain commodities and other means. In the case of copper, which primarily affects our Electrical Distribution Systems segment, contract clauses have enabled us to pass on some of the price increases to our customers and thereby partially offset the impact of increased commodity costs on operating income for the related products. Other than in the case of copper, our overall success in passing commodity cost increases on to our customers has been limited. However, we have negotiated, and will continue to negotiate as necessary, price increases with our customers in response to global inflationary pressures and the aforementioned global supply chain disruptions. We will continue our efforts to pass market-driven commodity cost increases to our customers in an effort to mitigate all or some of the adverse earnings impacts, including by seeking to renegotiate terms as contracts with our customers expire.

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Seasonality

In general, our business is moderately seasonal, as our primary North American customers historically reduce production during the month of July and halt operations for approximately one week in December. Our European customers generally reduce production during the months of July and August and for one week in December. Our Chinese customers generally halt operations for one week during the months of February and October. Shut-down periods in the rest of the world generally vary by country. In addition, automotive production is traditionally reduced in the months of July, August and September due to the launch of component production for new vehicle models.

People

As of December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 140,000 people; 30,000 salaried employees and 110,000 hourly employees. In addition, we maintain a contingent workforce of approximately 51,000 to accommodate fluctuations in customer demand. We are a global company serving every major worldwide market. As of December 31, 2025 our workforce is distributed as follows:

•50% in North America, with our largest presence in Mexico;

•30% in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, with our largest presence in Morocco and Serbia;

•15% in the Asia Pacific region, with our largest presence in China and India; and

•5% in South America, with our largest presence in Brazil.

As of December 31, 2025, approximately 50% of our total workforce were women, and approximately 25% of management roles were held by women.

Certain of our employees are represented worldwide by numerous unions and works councils, including the International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers - Communications Workers of America, IG Metall and the Confederacion De Trabajadores Mexicanos. We maintain collaborative and constructive labor relationships with our employee representatives in order to foster positive employee relations.

Our Board of Directors reviews Aptiv’s talent strategy, and our Compensation & Human Resources Committee (“CHRC”) reviews employee retention, attrition and pay equity on a continual basis. In 2025, we continued sustaining pay equity by race in the United States and gender pay equity among comparable roles globally.

Talent Development

Our people are essential to executing our strategy and sustaining long-term value creation. We invest in our talent to create a high-performance culture where innovation thrives, and our people are empowered to think and act like owners at every level in the organization. We provide training, coaching and mentoring to our employees at all levels, as well as internal career pathways—including global rotations and stretch assignments—to build the technical and leadership capability necessary to lead for today and as our business evolves. Our direct focus on skills development contributes to organization stability and succession readiness, as demonstrated by approximately 55% of our management role openings being filled through internal promotions in 2025 and improved retention for management and professionals. We manage succession planning as part of our monthly operating cadence, and segment, technical, and senior executive leadership succession plans are reviewed with the CHRC, Innovation and Technology Committees, and our Board of Directors annually.

Aptiv maintains a comprehensive suite of career, technical, and leadership development programs designed to enhance execution for today while preparing our workforce for the business needs of the future. Our employees complete formal leadership and management training using in-person, online and virtual learning opportunities to enhance their abilities. We also leverage Aptiv Academy, our online learning management system, across the business. In 2025, adoption of Aptiv Academy scaled to approximately 95% of our salaried population.

Culture

Aptiv’s culture is a competitive advantage to how we execute our strategy. Our culture is based on a set of distinct values and behaviors that guide us to always do the right thing, the right way. At Aptiv, we value each individual’s perspective, and we foster an environment of respect and inclusion. Aptiv participates in, and sponsors numerous outreach programs around the world, which seek to promote and recruit the next generation of talent into science, technology, engineering and mathematical (STEM) fields. Leveraging our employees’ diverse backgrounds and experiences allows us to make better decisions and supports stronger performance. Aptiv is continuing to drive innovation through an inclusive workforce for all, where every individual feels a sense of belonging within the organization.

Culture is a central pillar in our business and helps to drive consistent leadership behavior across our businesses. We conduct regular employee feedback surveys to measure engagement, which includes assessing each employee’s commitment to our Company’s goals and the overall employee experience. In December 2025, 85% of our salaried employees responded to

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this survey. Aptiv achieved an engagement score of 8.0, an improvement of approximately 0.3 compared to 2024. Employee NPS improved approximately 12 points, positioning Aptiv among the top 25% of technology companies for employee engagement, according to industry benchmarks.

Our management team actively utilizes feedback at all levels of our organization to continually improve how we engage with our people and improve our operations. We recognize that sustaining a leadership culture requires continual focus and attention. Accordingly, senior executives and leaders throughout the Company commit time, resources and attention to ensure our culture continues to differentiate Aptiv as a great place to work.

Health and Safety

We are uncompromising in our commitment to health, safety and well-being of all our employees and we treat safety performance as a critical operational priority. Our safety program is built on rigorous prevention, training, auditing and risk mitigation in our manufacturing plants, technical centers and offices. We continuously assess occupational health and safety risks, define controls and perform internal audits for all manufacturing sites, assessing, among other things, legal compliance, controls and key workplace safety metrics.

Our results reflect this discipline. We remain an industry leader in workplace safety, achieving a lost time injury frequency rate of 0.21 cases per million hours worked and our lost workday case rate per 100 employees of 0.043 for the year ended December 31, 2025. These outcomes demonstrate the strength of our safety culture and the operational resilience it enables. Our standard safety management system is aligned with ISO 45001, and we are committed to ensuring all our manufacturing sites are ISO 45001 certified by 2026. As of December 31, 2025, 92% of our sites are certified under this standard.

Commitment to Environmental Sustainability

Sustainability has always been core to Aptiv’s business, values and culture. We believe this strong, foundational focus on sustainability makes Aptiv a partner of choice for our customers, a desirable place to work for our employees and a valued contributor to the communities in which we operate. While a key part of our business is to design solutions that help transition the world’s vehicles to cleaner sources of power, we are also committed to reducing our environmental footprint throughout our operations around the globe. We aim to reduce our environmental impact by decreasing our carbon footprint, reducing waste generated and consuming less water in our operations. Expenditures required to meet our environmental sustainability goals, which are described below, are included in our normal budgeting process.

Decreasing our Carbon Footprint

Aptiv has committed to the Science-Based Targets initiative (the “SBTi”) Business Ambition for 1.5℃ campaign. Aptiv’s following near-term targets were validated by the SBTi in November 2023:

•Reducing Scope 1 and 2 absolute CO2e emissions by 100% between the baseline year (2021) and 2030; and

•Reducing Scope 3 absolute CO2e emissions by 47% between the baseline year and 2030.

To achieve these commitments, we are targeting:

•Maintaining annual certification of all major manufacturing sites to the ISO 14001 standard;

•Certifying the most energy-intensive sites to the ISO 50001 certification; and

•Sourcing 100% of electricity for operations from renewable sources by 2030.

Key to achieving these goals is our global Environmental, Health and Safety and Sustainability management system, which helps to keep us aligned with stringent environmental, health and safety regulations and provides a structure for continuous improvement. This system applies to all Aptiv sites, which means that in some countries our procedures go beyond local regulations and requirements. This system is continuously updated to ensure that our procedures remain up to date.

Reducing our Water Usage and Waste Generated

While our operations are not water intensive, we include water in our environmental risk management approach. We identify locations where we operate that are water-scarce and take action to reduce our water consumption accordingly, while also striving to comply with best practices in lower-risk locations. Our goal is to reduce water consumption in high-risk (water-scarce) locations.

We are also committed to reducing waste, with a waste recycled target (volume of recycled waste divided by total waste volume) of 80%. We continue to strive to actively reduce and manage waste across our manufacturing operations, as well as in our offices. We are creating packaging that uses less material and we continue to strive to increase the share of waste and excess materials we divert to recycling.

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Additional Sustainability Information

Additional information regarding our environmental sustainability and human capital initiatives, as well as information on our progress towards our commitments, is available in our annual Sustainability Report located on our website at www.aptiv.com/about/sustainability. Nothing on our website, including the aforementioned Sustainability Report, shall be deemed incorporated by reference into this Annual Report.

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SUPPLEMENTARY ITEM. EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT

The name, age (as of February 1, 2026), current positions and description of business experience of each of our executive officers are listed below. Our executive officers are elected annually by the Board of Directors and hold office until their successors are elected and qualified or until the officer’s resignation or removal. Positions noted below reflect current service to Aptiv PLC and prior service to Delphi Automotive PLC and Delphi Automotive LLP.

Kevin P. Clark, 63, is chair of Aptiv’s board of directors and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Company. Mr. Clark was named president and CEO and became a member of the board in March 2015. Previously, Mr. Clark was chief operating officer (COO) from October 2014 to March 2015. Prior to the COO position, Mr. Clark was chief financial officer and executive vice president from February 2013. He was appointed vice president and chief financial officer in July 2010. Previously, Mr. Clark was a founding partner of Liberty Lane Partners, LLC, a private-equity investment firm focused on building and improving middle-market companies. Prior to Liberty Lane Partners, Mr. Clark served as the chief financial officer of Fisher-Scientific International Inc., a manufacturer, distributor and service provider to the global healthcare market. Mr. Clark served as Fisher-Scientific’s chief financial officer from the company’s initial public offering in 2001 through the completion of its merger with Thermo Electron Corporation in 2006. Prior to becoming chief financial officer, Mr. Clark served as Fisher-Scientific’s corporate controller and treasurer.

Varun Laroyia, 54, is Aptiv’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective November 2024. He joined Aptiv from LKQ Corporation, a leading provider of alternative and specialty parts to repair and accessorize automobiles and other vehicles, where he most recently served as senior advisor, following roles as chief executive officer, LKQ Europe from 2022 to 2023 and executive vice president and chief financial officer from 2017 to 2022. Prior to serving at LKQ, Mr. Laroyia served as chief financial officer, Global Workplace Solutions for CBRE Group, Inc. from 2015 to 2017 and, prior to that, in a variety of roles of increasing responsibility at Johnson Controls, Gateway, General Electric and KPMG in Europe and North America.

Allan J. Brazier, 59, is senior vice president and chief accounting officer of Aptiv. He was promoted to senior vice president in April 2025, after serving as vice president and chief accounting officer from February 2011. Mr. Brazier joined the Company in June 2005 as senior manager of technical accounting and reporting, and prior to his current role served as assistant controller of technical accounting and reporting. Prior to joining Aptiv, Mr. Brazier was employed for seventeen years in financial roles of increasing responsibility at various companies. Mr. Brazier is a Certified Public Accountant and began his career with the international public accounting firm of KPMG.

Javed Khan, 53, is executive vice president and president, Software and Advanced Safety and User Experience, a position he has held since he joined Aptiv in August 2024. Before joining Aptiv, he served as senior vice president and general manager of Cisco Collaboration, and prior to his tenure at Cisco, Mr. Khan was the vice president of Enterprise and Consumer Security products at Symantec. He began his career as an engineer at Novell, before moving to leadership roles at Symantec.

Joseph T. Liotine, 53, is executive vice president and president, Electrical Distribution Systems, a position he has held since November 2024. Mr. Liotine joined Aptiv in April 2024 as president, Signal and Power Solutions. Prior to joining Aptiv, Mr. Liotine served as chief executive officer at Briggs & Stratton, and previously, he spent nearly 20 years in senior executive roles at Whirlpool Corporation, most recently as president and chief operating officer, where he led the global appliance business. Mr. Liotine began his career at PepsiCo, where he held several positions within sales and procurement.

Obed D. Louissaint, 46, is Aptiv’s executive vice president and chief people officer. He joined Aptiv as senior vice president in January 2023 and was elevated to executive vice president in March 2024 when he assumed responsibility for the Company’s communication function. He joined Aptiv from IBM, where he was senior vice president, Transformation and Culture from August 2020 through December 2022. He previously served as vice president, Talent, Watson Health & Employee Experience from 2019 to 2020 and vice president, Human Resources, IBM Watson, Watson Health, Research, Technical Talent & Corporate from 2015 to 2020. He began his IBM career in 2001 and held several human resources positions of increasing responsibility. Before joining IBM, Mr. Louissaint was president at Student Agencies, Inc.

Joseph R. Massaro, 56, is Aptiv’s vice chair and president, Engineered Components Group, a position he has held from November 2024. Mr. Massaro joined the Company in October 2013 as vice president, Internal Audit, and in September 2014 was appointed to the position of vice president, corporate controller. In March 2016, he was named senior vice president and chief financial officer. In September 2020, he also assumed the role of senior vice president, business operations, and in 2024, was elevated to vice chairman, business operations and chief financial officer. Previously, Mr. Massaro was a managing director at Liberty Lane Partners from 2008 to 2010. He also served as chief financial officer of inVentiv Health Inc. from 2010 to 2013, a Liberty Lane portfolio company. Prior to Liberty Lane, he served in a variety of finance and operational roles at Thermo Fisher Scientific from 2002 to 2007, including senior vice president of Global Business Services where his responsibilities included the global sourcing and information technology functions. Prior to the merger with Thermo Electron, he also served as vice president and corporate controller of Fisher Scientific and held several other senior finance positions.

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Katherine H. Ramundo, 58, is executive vice president, chief legal officer, chief compliance officer and secretary of Aptiv. She joined Aptiv as senior vice president, chief legal officer, chief compliance officer and secretary of Aptiv in March 2021, and was elevated to executive vice president in March 2024. Prior to joining Aptiv, Ms. Ramundo was executive vice president, chief legal officer and secretary of Howmet Aerospace Inc. (formerly Arconic Inc.), a leading global provider of advanced engineered solutions for the aerospace and transportation industries, a role she held from November 2016 to February 2021. Prior to joining Howmet Aerospace, Ms. Ramundo was executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of ANN, Inc., the owner of the Ann Taylor and LOFT brands. Previously, Ms. Ramundo served as vice president, deputy general counsel and assistant secretary of Colgate-Palmolive. Among her other positions during her 15-year tenure at Colgate, she served as general counsel of the Europe/South Pacific division, and later managed global specialty legal activities. She began her career as a litigator, practicing at major New York-based law firms, including Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Sidley Austin.