Oliver Blume Succeeds Diess as Volkswagen CEO

The interesting bit:

"According to the paper, the new Volkswagen CEO has also announced changes in software development, which has ultimately delayed the planned electric vehicles across the Group. The dispute over the direction of the software subsidiary Cariad was one of the reasons for the change at the top of the Group.

Volkswagen now cut (out of necessity) the target set by Blume’s predecessor Herbert Diess himself of developing at least 60 per cent of the software for its car operating system on its own.

Continental may now play a decisive role alongside Bosch to accelerate software development. The DAX listed Group will develop the so-called middleware for VW’s operating system, writes Handelsblatt, quoting industry sources. The middleware enables data exchange between the software and hardware of a car. Neither Continental nor Cariad commented."