People’s expectations towards the car are shifting in the direction of more and more digital performance and individualization. Thus, the automobile is increasingly developing into a smart car, just as the mobile phone has evolved into a smartphone.
The car as a fully connected, digital living space that constantly offers new functions, can be individualized with applications and is regularly updated. This includes infotainment and cockpit functions, right through to assistance systems and chassis management.
We will not be able to master this change solely with our outstanding industrial expertise. The key is powerful software.
Today, our cars already contain more than 100 million lines of code, ten times more than a smartphone operating system, and even significantly more than a modern jet plane. The extent continues to grow rapidly because more and more functionality and thus software performance is demanded. In a few years, this number will even triple.
We are therefore making software a further core competence of 
Volkswagen.
The Car.Software organisation as a key 
With the Car.Software organisation, the Volkswagen Group is building its own business unit that focuses exclusively on software and powerful electronic units. The main task is to develop a group-wide software platform with our own vehicle operating system VW.OS and the corresponding Volkswagen Automotive Cloud.
Our VW.OS will be used by every brand and every model in the Group. This way we will tackle the increasing complexity of the car of the future.
With software, especially for a platform solution, only the scaling counts.