The Volkswagen Group has taken the broom to the boardroom of Cariad, its troubled software program improvement division that has brought on many automobile tasks to be delayed.
Peter Bosch, most lately the top of producing for Bentley, and a board member for Scout, Volkswagen’s new EV pickup truck and SUV model for North America, has been appointed as Cariad’s CEO. He’ll begin in his new function on June 1 this yr.
Along with operating Cariad, he can even be accountable for the division’s finance, buying, and IT capabilities.
As reported lately, the one present Cariad board member to retain their function shall be Rainer Zugehör, who will proceed as Cariad’s chief individuals officer.
The brand new Cariad board will encompass solely 4 individuals, together with “two acknowledged software program specialists”, but it surely’s unknown who these persons are. Volkswagen stated their names shall be introduced “within the close to future”.
Whereas the administration crew is being modified, Cariad’s focus has not. It’s nonetheless tasked with growing a brand new end-to-end digital structure for all Volkswagen Group’s manufacturers, in addition to laying the groundwork for the “improvement of software-defined automobiles”.
Delays to former venture have brought on the launch dates for the upcoming Audi Q6 e-tron and Porsche Macan EV to slide. The Macan EV was initially on account of be unveiled in 2022, however has since been pushed again to 2023 and, now, 2024.
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Audi Q6 e-tron
Issues for the latter are delaying the roll out of Stage 4 autonomous driving software program to 2028 on the earliest, and has equally pushed again the launch of the brand new SSP car structure that’s meant to switch the prevailing MEB and upcoming PPE platforms.
These points reportedly had Volkswagen’s manufacturers pushing for larger software program autonomy, however this has apparently not been granted.
As an alternative, Oliver Blume says Cariad will proceed with the 10-point plan he outlined in September 2022 when he took over because the CEO of the Volkswagen Group, together with “sharpening Cariad’s core competences”, updating model interfaces, releasing “real looking [release] sequences for software program architectures”, and intensifying “know-how partnerships with robust tech gamers”.
Chatting with Automotive Information Europe, Blume confirmed the corporate is in search of new roles for the present Cariad CEO Dirk Hilgenberg and the remainder of the prevailing Cariad administration board.
Cariad was based by Herbert Diess, throughout his tenure because the automaker’s CEO, to convey collectively and centralise the entire Volkswagen Group’s software program improvement actions.
