VW to take on Tesla and Google with new software division


Europe's largest car group Volkswagen is taking on Google and Tesla, working on its own vehicle operating system. — dpa

Google and Tesla may be the current world leaders when it comes to the operating systems used in increasingly smart cars, but Europe's biggest car group wants to change that.

Volkswagen says it wants to take on the dominant US tech giants with the help of its own software division, Cariad, and add its own in-house software to more and more VW Group models.

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