At present, overseas media revealed that Volkswagen is currently negotiating the acquisition of Huawei's acquisition of the autonomous driving department, and it is reported that the transaction price of the project is expected to be billions of euros, equivalent to more than 10 billion yuan. At the same time, Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess also said in the international social media Q&A session on the 16th of this month that in the next 25 years, autonomous driving technology will be widely popularized, and Volkswagen is also further seeking cooperation in related technologies and improving its own software technology.
According to overseas media, Peter Mertens, former head of research and development at Audi, also revealed in an interview that none of the 10 million lines of code in ID.3 were written by Volkswagen engineers. Obviously, in terms of software upgrades, Volkswagen is still in a weak stage, if the future successful acquisition of the autonomous driving division, Volkswagen will also be significantly improved in autonomous driving technology and software upgrades, then its technical field will also be on par with Tesla.
According to the previous planning of the Volkswagen Group, by 2025, the proportion of self-developed software research and development will rise to 60% of the models put into production under the brand. At the end of last year, Volkswagen Group also said in a statement that investment in upgrades to related technologies such as electric vehicles and autonomous driving will increase to about 73 billion euros, and increase the digital investment budget to 27 billion euros to develop core software such as automotive operating systems. In this era of rapid development in the field of new energy, automotive software and hardware have also become a double-edged sword, and whether Volkswagen can seize this opportunity, let's wait and see.