Currently reading: Cariad outranks VW Group brands as software takes centre stage
The Cariad software division has been at the heart of many recent controversies but remains crucial to the VW Group

The Volkswagen Group’s Cariad software division has known almost nothing but controversy in its nearly three-year life.

Formed to shoulder the burden of creating a digital future for the group’s still fairly analogue fleet in the teeth of competition from the likes of Tesla, it became the public face of the failure to ship working software with the first Volksagen ID 3 electric cars.

The troublesome software was called 1.1,

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