Software on Volkswagen ID.3: "Disaster, we are making things by hand"

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Volkswagen once again entered the negative news with its electric car and the beacon of the hopeful Volkswagen ID3. According to media reports, serious software issues still exist. However, they hope to start selling in the summer of 2020.

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It is said that Volkswagen ID.3 helps reduce the consumption of the CO 2 fleet, otherwise it will be imposed a huge fine. This car is also an extremely important image carrier for Volkswagen. This makes it even more annoying for the company to get news about ongoing software issues with electric vehicles. At a site in eastern Germany, YouTuber encountered a huge VW ID.3 parking lot and thousands of vehicles were waiting outside for software updates. Now, the SÜD reports further issues, but also reports on how the public wants to control everyone's strategy.

Some features in ID.3 will be available later

"This is definitely a disaster. We just have no one," the Süddeutsche quoted VW employees who wanted to remain anonymous. Many young programmers currently choose not to work in the automotive industry. Obviously, this has a direct impact on the function of Volkswagen ID.3, which is the first model of Volkswagen. Like Tesla, it can be updated in the air. The spokesman said: "It's not going well." Therefore, "one or another feature" is updated only when ID.3 is already in the customer portal.

Volkswagen ID.3

This sounds like an emergency solution. Another source of quotes that Süddeutsche calls "in-house experts" paints a darker picture for Volkswagen. One is the "not even close" industrial manufacturing process. He expects only a few finished cars in the summer. But we "made them by hand so that there is something there."

Volkswagen informed US portal Electrek that the first copies of Volkswagen ID.3 were not for the public, but as part of extended quality control for corporate employees. These are designed to provide companies with feedback on areas that still need improvement.