VW Group bets big on software

摘要

New Car.Software division will create operating system for use in all VW Group cars. The software issues that have hampered the build-up to the launches of Volkswagen's new ID 3 EV and eighth-generation Golf demonstrate how important such systems are to modern cars - and how complicated they have become. The software required for the previous Golf contained around one million lines of code - compared with 10 million for the ID 3. For companies traditionally focused purely on building the mechanical elements of cars, that increasing need for software presents a dilemma: do they buy in the new software that's needed or make it themselves?