ZWICKAU, Germany – Five years and nearly $ 50 billion in the biggest bet for the automotive industry on electric vehicles, Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess and his guest, Chancellor Angela Merkel, are awaiting the first ID.3 Germany’s long-awaited response to Tesla, rolled off the assembly line.
Thomas Ulbrich, leader of the ID.3 effort, says Thomas Ulbrich, a systematic shift from the internal combustion engine to the electric vehicle, had a systematic shift from the internal combustion engine to the electric vehicle.
However, the car does not work as advertised.
It can drive, turn and turn on a cent. But the amazing technological features that VW promised were absent or broken. The programmers of the company have not yet determined how to update the software of the car remotely. Its futuristic headscreen that was supposed to flash the speed, directions and other data on the windshield did not work. Early owners started reporting hundreds of other software bugs.
After years of development, Volkswagen decided in June last year to postpone the launch and sell the first series of cars without a full range of software, pending a future update, which is now scheduled for mid-February. Tens of thousands of ID.3 owners will have to bring in their cars to have the new software installed.