The ID3, which was the first model to use VW Group’s MEB electric platform when it launched 2020, gets a new approach to software and software subscriptions.

The problems stem from the basic architecture of the ID3's software, which was developed "too hastily," the magazine said, citing VW's own experts. Many of the system's elements do not understand ...

New software will be manually installed in this manner for the first 10,000 or so ID3s. A total of 20,000 ID3 vehicles will need to be reworked until the second wave of production begins in May.