CES 2015

Volkswagen Introduces Advanced Gesture Control and Networking for a New Age of Mobility

WOLFSBURG, GERMANY and LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwired - January 05, 2015) -

• Golf R Touch: cockpit concept solves future challenges and offers intuitive operation of high-tech infotainment
• Connected Golf: perfect compatibility with MirrorLink™, Apple® and Google®
• Intelligent Charge: e-Golf automatically docks above inductive charging plate
• Trained Parking: future Park Assist drives into garage semi-automatically
• Digital Key turns the smartphone into a car key.
• Media Control integrates tablets and smart watches into the Volkswagen infotainment system.

Volkswagen, Europe's most successful car brand, has been instrumental in driving the development of more connected, more intelligent vehicles. That is because the car -- which operates intuitively, is networked systematically, reacts intelligently and offers significantly greater convenience. This gives new innovative impetus to mobile life, making it more communicative, safer and interesting. This is why Volkswagen is demonstrating an entire fleet of vehicles at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas to show just how much the car and computer are already intertwined today and will continue to grow together in the future. The main focus at the show is on four aspects: computer-controlled drive systems; app and smartphone integration; intuitive vehicle operation; and autonomous and semi-autonomous driving.

"The two inventions of the century, the car and the computer, are gradually coming closer together. We need to design future mobility to be even more intelligent and even more networked," said Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn, CEO of Volkswagen AG.

Computer-controlled drive systems
Electric mobility is coming into its own. Full electric and hybrid versions of high-volume models have now arrived, and Volkswagen is setting the pace with best-sellers like the Golf. The e-Golf and Golf GTE are the protagonists of a new mobility. These cars would be inconceivable without on-board electronics with computers that control such functions as battery charging and, in the case of the hybrid models, switching between the different drive sources. At CES, Volkswagen is showing, among other things, how electric cars will be able to automatically dock to inductive charging stations and output signals that indicate the battery state-of-charge using the vehicle's exterior lights.