VW Software Division CARIAD - Yet another personnel announcement - Article

[Tooney]

Sanjay Lal has an impressive pedigree. Can he get the VW Group back on track?
The VW Group announced Lal will lead the new Software Defined Vehicle Hub at CARIAD, its consolidated software division.
"Sanjay is someone we can all look forward to,” CARIAD CEO Peter Bosch said in a statement to InsideEVs. “He is a true expert in the Software Defined Vehicle – together with him we will develop a competitive advantage for the brands and the Volkswagen Group.” The “hub” Lal will lead is a small team across Volkswagen and Audi – with more brands to join eventually – focused on developing software more quickly, with less development time, and hardware built around it. “Speed is the new imperative to stay competitive," VW Group CEO Oliver Blume said to investors this summer.
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[simcity]

I think its been mentioned another thread but they are looking to lay of a third of the workforce. So clearly the knife is being wielded big time.

 

[daveo4EV]

the problem with VW/Audi/Porsche is not the size of the software team (other than it sound super large) it seems to be a lack of vision - you need to up-end the existing supply chain and modularity of the current vehicle design - smaller more agile more focused teams with a clear vision is the way foward…easier said than done by several orders of magnitude, but ultimately necessary…this is going to be painful to execute and watch

other's seem to be doing better in this space vs. VW/Audi/Porsche - I've spent some time recently in Mercedes and BMW EV's - their software is better than PCM and other aspects of it - also they can update the software more effectively (not Tesla level yet but better than Porsche)…they are behind and it's starting to hurt them - and mechanical engineering won't save them.

 

[daveo4EV]

https://jalopnik.com/porsche-giving-up-on-volkswagen-infotainment-software-1850976771

 

[simcity]

It’s really not going well for VW Group at the moment.