On March 9th, SAIC Volkswed Skoda released a new generation of Octavia, named Mingrui PRO in the Chinese market. This is a global model of the Pure MQB EVO platform, follows the digital golf, the new Audi A3 enters China.
However, before discussion Ming Rui PRO, we first raised questions before the latest technology of MQB EVO, is the mass software problem is properly solved? Will Digital Golf’s software problems will also be inherited by Mingrui PRO?
Rehabilitation: the new era of traditional cars
2020 In the year, the software problem has always around the mass group.
The first tear open mouth is the public ID .3. This is the first mass production model of the Volkswagen Group’s electrified transformation, the MEB platform, and the importance is equivalent to golf. If everything goes well, the public id.3 will start to deliver consumers in the spring of 2020.
However, at the end of December 2019, id.3 put into production for one month, when the output is about 10,000, the public found it internally. Software problem – ID.3 system has code defects, and cannot complete software upgrades. After the beginning of the problem was exposed, the Mass Group did not openly respond, and even did not predict the seriousness of things.
In order to advance the delivery plan as scheduled, the public given by the public is: the first batch of 10,000 fault vehicles are manually upgraded by engineers, and the second batch of 20,000 new cars are upgraded through OTA.
However, in fact, the engineer stepped up the repair code defect, and the ID.3 in the road test will still discover more software issues. According to the insider, the tester will find at least 300 software vulnerabilities every day, and since the new Meb architecture covers a large number of electronic components and control units, engineers cannot find the key in the short term, software cannot solveIt means that id.3 cannot be a real smart internet car. 
The whole year of 2020, Volkswagen Group around ID.3 is to solve software vulnerabilities, few people pay attention to, id.3 truly start delivery to consumers It is already a matter of July.
During this period, the attention of the outside is attracted by another heavy event – the eighth generation Golf also caught in the software crisis. In May, German media took the lead in reporting that the eighth generation golf produced by the new MQB EVO platform suddenly suspended, the reason is that there is a software problem in the new car, and it may affect the normal operation of the engine. After investigating the mass group, it was found that due to the unstable software data transmission and the online connection unit (OCU3) fault, it directly affects the Golf ECALL emergency call function.
The mass processing plan is also delayed, and the engineer has resolved vehicle problems one by one, and there are 15,000 new European markets. Golf is on delivery.
In the first half of 2020, the two important models, ID.3 and golf have appeared in the two major models. The spearhead refers to the mass group shouting in 2018. Digital change. As the world’s largest traditional car manufacturer, the public aware of the trend of the automotive industry to the intelligent network, the software department established in 2019 Car.Software, the most important work is to develop vehicle operating systems vw.os and car clouds Platform Volkswagen Automotive Cloud.
Today, the MEB platform where Id.3 is located and the MQB EVO platform in which the eighth generation golf is located. There is a software problem, and whether the system cannot automatically upgrade or ECALL failure, it involves the vehicle operating system vw.oS and car cloud platform Volkswagen Automotive Cloud.
The spread: the other side of the platform-based scale
The eighth generation golf enters When China, rarely used the past 7, high 8, and consumers followed the spread of the car, called it as a digital golf.
Many consumers don’t know how to interpret “numbers”? Before you don’t really touch this car, the most intuitive feelings of the digital golf are – vast majority of physical buttons are canceled, and the operation of the car is handed over to touch screen and voice. This transformation depends on digital transformation of the MQB EVO platform, ie: comprehensive upgrade smart driving technology, highly integrated ECU, multiple central processors.
The core of these changes is that the eighth generation golf has the intelligent experience leading the era, except A more intelligent human-computer interactive experience, which also enables the vehicle to have continuous iteration.
If the software problem does not appear, the digital change of the mass group will become a successful case of the transformation of traditional car companies.
But in fact, while the eighth generation golf urgently suspended in May, the new generation of Skoda Octavia was born in the same platform was forced because of the same software problem. Extended delivery; and the same affected also Audi A3, Seati Leon, these are the main models of the MQB EVO platform.
This is the biggest challenge that the public promotes the modular platform.
According to the MQB platform to the MQB EVO platform, the important upgrade part is electrified. Intelligent.The MQB EVO platform introduced a new generation of power engine, and also expanded the compatibility of HEV and PHEV power combinations. Compared with the past, the hardware common rate of different brand models of Volkswagen Group was higher.
As for intelligent, the MQB EVO platform emphasizes more advanced driving assistance functions and intelligent interconnection. It can be seen from the eighth generation golf that the public has developed new network architecture and control modules to achieve high-speed data and signal transmission of intelligent systems. However, from the feedback from the user’s actual experience, the smart system itself has a large and small loopholes, such as sudden crash, system interruption, fail tone, and so on.
Golf is just discovered earlier because of the earliest market. In January this year, the public launched a recall in the European market, which is the eighth generation golf software failure hidden danger, which involves 56,000 new golf and production date before July 2020.
This time is exactly a new golf solved the first one Software issues E-Call faults and is officially delivered, and Skoda Octavia with the platform has solved the same software hidden dangers at this point in time.
, that is, the earliest production of MQB EVO models has more than one software problem. Before the formal recall, consumers don’t know that the failure of their encounters is accidental. Or commonality. According to the Popular Group’s harbor, we can’t believe that there is still other software security risks in the conclusion of the golf after the recall.
Did the software problem ended?
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In 2020, the Volkswagen Group is in the package, and the new car delivery is also accelerating to make up for the previous post-extension.
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European media reported that since September last year, ID.3 has returned to normal delivery rhythm, which affects the emergency software issues used by the vehicle temporarily resolved, but this does not mean ID. 3 users can enjoy the new experience brings from digital changes. This batch of ID.3 is called “disabled version”, which supports Carplay’s App Connect function to be locked, and users need to go to the store upgrade to completely unlock the functionality of the new system.
Let this user feel dissatisfied, due to the first A group of “Id.3” involved in many times, users need to make an appointment in advance, and the vehicle needs to stay in the dealer to complete the system upgrade. Previously, Volkswagen Group put into a huge energy to build an OTA architecture, which seems to be used in the Id.3 problem.
Today, this new car that is digitally sold, has become the best-selling electric vehicle in the European market in the absence of digital features. After the digital golf of the main digital cabin, after entering the Chinese market, it has also begun to receive some unfriendly use feedback.
The biggest dispute is still in the intelligent system itself. Obviously, this generation golf has not fully verified the ease of use and stability of the digital cockpit. Although the software problem currently similar to the European market has not yet outdated, the digital golf in the Chinese market also has a slow speed, connection interruption, unable to accurately A series of small issues such as control instructions. These problems have appeared in the owners forum, and gradually appeared in the complaint site, such as keyless entry failure, vehicle system alarm.
software problem makes digital golf to pay attention to expectations On the other hand, Mingrui PRO, which is about to be listed, is also known by consumers as golf. MQB EVOThe biggest highlight of the platform is an electronic architecture upgrade, and the user can use more human-computer interaction with each other. From the digital golf to Octavia PRO, these selling points are still continuing, but the potential software issues with platforms will continue. 
Figure | derived from the network