10.7.2019. The new Passat is the car for frequent drivers. Therefore, the Business is best-selling now, with the next stage of development to control and Infotainment system on the market.
The hardware and Software provides an intuitive interface to work with online-based functions and services, the comfort and the communication Board as best as possible. In the Passat five building blocks to optimally networked mobility: a new infotainment generation, Online Connectivity Unit (OCU) with a built-eSIM-card, “Volkswagen We” as an Online Ecosystem, the “Digital Cockpit” and a Head-up Display.in the process of fusing
Online Infotainment. The Passat starts with the standard radio system “Composition” (with 6.5-inch Display), as well as the optional navigation system “Discover Media” (8.0-inch) and “Discover Pro” (9.2 inches). You are with Online Connectivity Unit, coupled to the the – thanks to eSIM – on request, even without a connected Smartphone is always online. New features and in large Parts of newly designed menu navigation, mark “Discover Media” and “Discover Pro” – they belong to the third Generation of the “Modular Infotainment system” (MIB3). The Top-of-the-System “Discover Pro” also offers “App Connect Wireless,” which is the Use of Smartphone Apps over the infotainment system is possible. So, for example, “Apple CarPlay™ can be used” for the Integration of numerous iPhone Apps without a cable connection.
MIB and “Volkswagen We” as a unit. Thanks to the OCU and eSIM, the Passat will be synchronized in the future with a completely new range of Internet – based information and service offers. With “Volkswagen We” has developed, the company adapted to a digital Ecosystem, to be able to easily Apps, Online features and services to offer. It all works very simple: Every customer receives via the Online Portal of the “Volkswagen We are” individual “Volkswagen ID”, with which he can henceforth directly through the infotainment system of the Passat or the Smartphone functions and services, such as the “We Connect” and “We Connect Plus” access.
The functions of the “We Connect” and “We Connect Plus” in the Overview.
“We Connect” (for free) and “We Connect Plus” (free for one year), the Passat standard equipment. Some examples of the “We Connect”-functions:
Status information may be the doors are opened or the lights switched on, the respective Park position and an “auto Accident report”
In conjunction with the “Discover Pro” keys are compatible Samsung Smartphones to the vehicle.
So, possible: of the Download of “In-Car Apps” such as “We Park” (cashless Parking) and “We Experience” (offerings of Restaurants, Shops, or petrol stations) via the infotainment system.
“We Connect Plus” includes, if equipped additional features such as
to Online anti-theft alarm system and Online heater. Both of the Smartphone by “We Connect”App can be controlled.
for additional Plus range the Online route calculation, the Map updates Online and the natural Online-voice control
In addition, with an optional book can be used in a data volume of the “web radio” and the Streaming services, “Apple Music” and “TIDAL”
With “We Connect Plus” can be booked in addition, “We Deliver”, in order to make the Passat the recipient of supplies and services.
We Park, We Experience and We Deliver start for the market launch of the Passat first, in certain regions in Germany, with selected partners.
Volkswagen Passat (photo: Volkswagen AG)
