Apple and Google are penetrating further into the car – with software, chips and virtual reality. After 2025, Apple’s autonomous, electric and fully digital car could also go into series production.
“It’s a great danger for us,” says VW CEO Herbert Diess, and the danger is growing all the time: “Apple and Google want to dominate the screens in the car and take customers away from us.” The new models from Renault, Polestar and Volvo show how far the technology groups have come: Android Auto is always present as a language assistant or in the form of the Google Maps navigation system – even without a smartphone in the car.