berlin german luxury carmaker piech automotives first marketready electric vehicle model will use a software designed by germanys incari which enables it to update its digital dashboard system much quicker than its rivals both companies said on wednesday the software will enable piech to update the design of its infotainment system and other software components within minutes 70 faster than its competitors incari ceo osman dumbuya said the updating process usually takes weeks and can rack up 5digit engineering bills he added german auto manufacturers are investing heavily in topend engineers to design competitive software as looming competition from tesla and software giants like apple wading into the industry threaten to displace the countrys reputation as leaders in technological research and development its about speed over size said piech automotive ceo toni piech who cofounded the firm in 2016 at a showing of the vehicle in berlin on wednesday through our partnership with incari we have succeeded where most large and established manufacturers have so far failed a smart softwarebased collaboration between designers and engineers very early on he said piech automotive is due to release its 200000 euro 22662000 piech gt model in 2024 with a production target of 10000 cars a year the vehicle has already grabbed attention for using a battery technology devised by chinese company desten group which enables an 80 charge in 5 minutes solving the problem of slow charging time often cited by potential electric vehicle buyers as a barrier to purchase incaris software incari studio allows users to build digital interfaces in 3d without needing to know how to code bypassing the need to refer back to software engineers to make edits or changes in design dumbuya said piech is the first autos manufacturer to use the software at scale but german software firm incari is testing protoypes with several major european transport firms dumbuya said declining to provide names