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Back to EpisodesIs Linux Becoming the Default OS for Vehicles? | with Moritz Neukirchner of Elektrobit
Description
Dr. Moritz Neukirchner, Sr. Director Strategic Product Management, SDV, Elektrobit, joins host Dr. John Heinlein, Chief Marketing Officer from Sonatus, to discuss his valuable perspective on the shift to software-defined vehicles. Moritz is well-known in the automotive industry and explains critical technical infrastructure, including how Elektrobit is advancing Linux for vehicles, how SDV suits commercial vehicles, prototyping, CI/CD, and more. Moritz also explains his SDV maturity framework and how it introduces a common nomenclature for the shift to SDV. Filmed live at the Sonatus booth at CES 2025.
Links referenced in this episode:
Moritz’s SDV maturity level framework https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sdv-yet-dr-moritz-neukirchner-uuyxf/
Chapters:
00:00 Overview
00:38 Meet Moritz Neukirchner
02:26 About Elektrobit
03:55 Software-defined vehicles
06:47 V2X
08:45 Automotive Development Ecosystems
09:47 Linux in Vehicles
13:43 Elektrobit Exhibition at CES
15:24 Android Based Cloud Instance
17:55 Transitioning to SDV: OEM Challenges
23:10 Commercial Impediments
26:08 Commercial SDV Vehicles