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Agility

We are glad to suport the 'code first' approach of Eclipse SDV by contributing Eclipse eCAL: a scalable middleware enabling efficient communication within distributed systems. Continental is looking forward to collaborating within the community to create innovative solutions for the Software-Defined Vehicle.

- Michael Huelsewies

Head of Architecture and Software at Continental Automotive

Efficiency

As one of the leading software companies in the automotive industry, we are looking forward to the open cooperation in the Eclipse Foundation. Open source has long been a cevtral component in the automotive sector. We see great potential in the cooperation of the open source community for the software-driven car and also for our developers. We want to create innovations and set open standards together.

- Michael Wintergerst

Executive Vice President for Vehicle and Cloud Platform, CARIAD

The journey timeline

2022

Working group launched

2023

First hackathon and open source automotive summit

2024

First Open community for Automotive (OCA)

2025

25+ projects, 55+ member organisations, 3 SIGs

The journey timeline

2022

Working group launch

2023

First hackathon and open source automotive summit

2024

SDV Alliance (with AUTOSAR, SOAFEE, COVESA)

2025

50+ projects, 60+ member organizations, 5 SIGs