19.6.2019. Volkswagen AG wants to be in your new “Car.Software“unit, the group responsible for the Software in the vehicle, by 2025, more than 5,000 Digital experts who pool.
The company plans significantly more Software in the car and for a vehicle service to develop services and to increase the share of today, less than 10 percent to at least 60 per cent by 2025. In the future there will be group-wide, uniform Software platform with all the basic functionalities for all vehicles in the group – consisting of the operating system “vw.os“ and the Volkswagen Automotive Cloud.
By 2025, all new models of the group to run on this Software platform. The first vehicle, the platform is based on this Software, is the ID.3, the will still celebrate this year at the IAA world premiere. For the Pre-Booking of the vehicle have registered more than 20,000 potential customers.
“We are the platform for professionals in the Hardware and transfer this expertise now on the software development,” says Christian Senger, Board of management of Volkswagen brand with responsibility for Digital Car and Services. “We are going to develop Software with a uniform basis functions for all the group’s brands and reduce the complexity enormously. In perspective, we use the economies of scale of our Group. This is just in the area of Software particularly useful and leads to huge cost advantages,“ says Christian Senger, Board of management of Volkswagen brand with responsibility for Digital Car and Services.
Currently, the Volkswagen brand alone in vehicles to integrate up to 70 control units with operating software from 200 different suppliers. In addition, there are in the group different system with the same features, such as Infotainment or Navigation. A uniform operating system with the same basis functions for all brands, as well as the use of the Volkswagen Automotive Cloud for all of the group’s models will simplify significantly.
The same applies to the so-called digital Ecosystem of the brands that the Services are offered. Because all brands need to have certain basic services. For example, the simple search of E-charging stations. In the case of Volkswagen Cars of this Service, “We Batch means”. Across all brands, the basic functions of”, for example, search for stations in the vicinity” or “Pay with different payment types,” unify.
Volkswagen is aiming to achieve with its unified Software platform and substantial economies of scale. The vehicle fleet is going to consist of more than 10 million fully networked new vehicles per year, reducing the cost for the Integration of the Software in each individual vehicle drop considerably. At the same time, the digital ecosystem, with an increasing number of connected vehicles, is becoming increasingly attractive for new partners and new customers.
The strengthening of Software skills and orientation to modern digital development work
Volkswagen wants to.by by 2025, more than 5,000 experts in competence areas such as Software development, electrics and electronics development, connectivity, automated Driving, User Experience (UX), Cloud architecture and E-Commerce in an agile unit “Car Software to“ lead together. You will be working in five core areas together, and cross-brand volumes develop.
The aim is to be guided by the requirements of the innovative software development. Volkswagen wants to contribute to this end, flexible work models, the latest technologies of collaboration, and agile forms of collaboration. In the course of this year, around 500 experts working in this agile Software unit, in 2020 it should be around 2,000.
In addition to bringing together experts from brands and companies in the group, Volkswagen is driving the build-up of staff, especially on the generation of new professionals and the consolidation of strategic business investments and acquisitions, and strategic partnerships forward. It is planned to occur with the new Software unit in the labour market, also for advertising purposes, and specifically forces in the field of IT and Tech scene address.
“We want a power center for the digital car, and the associated Cloud platform forms, with the best Digital experts in the world. We are convinced that Volkswagen will be showing what it can do: We are going to make Software a core competence in the company,“ said Christian Senger.
In the new Car.Software-unit to be developed in the future cross-brand Software sizes in five core areas. (Photo: Volkswagen AG)
