Volkswagen wants to put its own operating system vw.os in all its cars from 2025

Volkswagen is establishing a new business unit responsible for software development under the name Car.Software. In 2025, five thousand people must work and all cars must then run on their own VW.

Volkswagen says it currently develops about ten percent of the software it uses in cars in-house, but by 2025 that should be sixty percent. This year Car.Software will start with five hundred employees and in 2020 that should increase to about two thousand employees.

With the announcement, Volkswagen says it wants to equip all its cars with its own operating system called vw.os and with Volkswagen Automotive Cloud from 2025. The car manufacturer does not provide details about the ox. The cloud service of the car manufacturer has already been announced and Volkswagen is working with Microsoft for this.

The first cars with vw.os and Volkswagen Automotive Cloud should be released in 2020. The first model with this software is the electric ID.3, of which Volkswagen showed images last month. The full unveiling of that model will follow in September.

Volkswagen states that it currently works with seventy different operating systems that run on software from almost two hundred different suppliers. The move to a unified system for all of the Group’s cars and brands will bring significant economies of scale, the company says.