Electric car ID.3 from VW
VW wants to bundle and expand software development.
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DusseldorfVolkswagen wants to bundle and expand its software competences. In the new unit “Car.Software” more than 5000 digital experts should be summarized by 2025, announced VW on Tuesday. In the course of the increasing software share in the vehicles, by 2025, the own share of the software should be increased to at least 60 percent, from currently less than 10 percent.
At present, up to 70 control units with operating software from 200 different suppliers are integrated in Volkswagen cars alone.
“We are platform professionals in hardware and now transfer this competence to software development,” explained board member Christian Senger. “We will develop software with common base functions for all Group brands and can thus reduce the complexity enormously.” The first car, which will be based on the new software platform, is the electric production model ID.3, which will be presented at the IAA in 2019 should.
More: This is the source of ideas behind Volkswagen’s all-electric ID.3.
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