Electrovbit will supply software and services for the Afeela prototype electric vehicle showcased by Sony Honda Mobility at CES 2023.
This is the result of years of collaboration between Electrovbit and Sony, and the partnership with SHM continues to reinterpret software in vehicles. The partnership with SHM started with the development of two prototype vehicles from Sony’s first VISION-S in 2019, and the vehicles under the Afeela brand are expected to enter mass production in 2025.
Electrovbit will produce an innovative software architecture for the Afeela prototype, and SHM will leverage Sony’s ecosystem to create a new level of user experience.
The cockpit system developed by Electrovbit includes a software stack that drives software for Qualcomm’s high-performance computing (HPC) processors and all cockpit displays’ UX design. Additionally, Electrovbit provides integration services for the cockpit system encompassing all software and hardware components, applications from Sony and its partners.
Afeela symbolizes a significant shift in vehicle design with software playing an increasingly vital role in both core vehicle operations and automotive manufacturing innovation.
Software serves as the central element of the cockpit in the Afeela prototype, integrating not only Sony’s latest audio and camera sensor technologies but also various gaming, film, and music content. SHM has announced its partnership with Epic Games, opening up possibilities for various experiences that can be realized in the cockpit system.
Electrovbit CEO Maria Anhalt expressed, “We are incredibly proud to enter a strategic software partnership with SHM on the groundbreaking Afeela prototype project,” adding, “We are redefining mobility around a vision that delivers an inspired and emotional new type of user experience with SHM, and software is the starting point.” She further noted, “This vehicle possesses extraordinary computing power that creates all kinds of potential user experience possibilities, and new levels of requirements needed to be met from a systems architecture standpoint. Electrovbit has played a much more central role in this project compared to traditional relationships between OEMs and suppliers, and the Afeela prototype exemplifies the potential advantages of this software-centric paradigm shift.”
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