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The
unit - set up under former VW group CEO Herbert Diess -has
exceeded its budget and failed to meet goals, contributing to
Diess' departure and replacement by Oliver Blume last September.
Cariad's supervisory board is expected to sign off on the
dismissals in a meeting next week, the source said on Saturday,
adding that only the unit's head of personnel, Rainer Zugehör,
might stay on.
A VW spokesperson said the German company was analysing Cariad
and its projects.
A number of decisions have been made, but no decisions on
personnel, the spokesperson said, adding that Cariad and vehicle
software development remained integral to Volkswagen's group
strategy.
The problems at Cariad have delayed work on important new
vehicle models Porsche e-Macan and Audi Q6 e-tron.
The planned launch of company-wide structural car software,
initially designed to enable the fourth of five levels of
autonomous driving from 2026, has been postponed by two years.
Business Insider first reported the planned dismissals.
(Reporting by Jan Schwartz in Hamburg; Writing by Ludwig Burger
in Frankfurt; Editing by Hans Seidenstuecker and Barbara Lewis)
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