Rivian moved both R1 hardware generations and the R2 onto RivianOS 2
The company described release 2026.31 as the largest software change in the R1's history, and said it reaches every R1 on the road.
OTA & Lifecycle
What happens to a vehicle's software after the sale. Coverage follows update pipelines and their failure modes, rollback and recovery, software identification and version provability, and the regulation — UNECE R156 above all — that decides which updates a manufacturer may ship at all.
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Chrysler filed a second rearview-camera radio recall covering trucks in the first
Two software recalls filed on the same day cover 441,107 vehicles, and the 2026 Ram 1500 appears in the vehicle list of both the new camera campaign and an August one.
Volvo Trucks finished its North American rollout of unattended software updates
Updates that complete after the driver locks the truck and walks away are now available across the United States and Canada on the company's newest tractors.
BMW recalled 218 cars in China because an earlier recall's software update never installed
The regulator's notice said an operational deviation or an abnormal download during two 2024 campaigns left the vehicles short of the target software version.
Knorr-Bremse put an ISO 24089-certified software update system into series production
The brake supplier said its update-management system is certified to ISO 24089 and already in series production, and that it is adding an open, manufacturer-independent update hub built with Cojali.
ZF sets out its software-defined truck roadmap around updates, diagnostics and a data link
The supplier named secure software update management, vehicle diagnostics and a high-speed truck-trailer connection among the building blocks on its path to the software-defined commercial vehicle.
Japan delayed its mandatory cybersecurity and software-update rules for existing models
The transport ministry moved the September 1 application date to November 1 for vehicles already in production, citing earthquake damage to suppliers that left ordered cars unbuilt.
Four Chinese ministries opened a year-long audit of vehicle software validation
A joint notice from MIIT and three sister ministries launched a one-year national inspection campaign that makes driver-assistance validation, cybersecurity and update logging conditions of market access.
Great Wall's profit more than halved as it shipped a new driver-assistance generation
The carmaker's interim results paired a 53 percent fall in total profit with rising research spending, the rollout of Coffee Pilot 4 and a cockpit operating system it plans to push to more models by over-the-air update.
China opened comment on a mandatory standard for automotive cryptography
A draft mandatory national standard would require Chinese-market vehicles to use approved cryptography to verify software update packages, boot firmware in stages, and authenticate whoever writes calibration parameters through the diagnostic port.
Kaspersky described malware that reached car head units through the update client
Kaspersky published research on a campaign against Android head units in which the unit's own legitimate update component installed the payload.
Nine automakers recalled 4.27 million cars in China, six of them partly over the air
Nine manufacturers filed recalls covering 4,275,743 vehicles over a hard-to-find emergency door release on a single day, and six of them discharged part of the remedy by rewriting window-control software remotely.
Tesla filed a China recall adding cabin-camera driver monitoring to 2.74 million cars
China's market regulator published a recall plan under which Tesla will add in-cabin camera monitoring to 2,740,642 domestically built cars whose existing system did not warn drivers who looked away from the road.
FCA US recalled 848,511 vehicles over radio software that hid the rearview camera
The remedy for the Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram vehicles is an over-the-air radio software update delivered across all four brands.
Mercedes-Benz put MB.OS and full-vehicle over-the-air updates into the new C-Class
The combustion sedan and estate run MB.OS as their central software platform, extending the operating system across the whole model family after the electric C-Class launched on it in April.
Stoneridge will debut a centralized ECU platform for commercial vehicles at IAA
The supplier said its EVO platform consolidates processing that commercial vehicles have spread across many individual control units, using Renesas silicon and a Green Hills software architecture that keeps safety-critical functions separated.
NHTSA gave Tesla six more weeks on eight of its FSD information requests
A memo in the Engineering Analysis docket shows Tesla asked on August 5 for a partial extension of the August 12 deadline, and that the agency granted September 23 for eight questions, including the one covering modifications to the software.
NHTSA gave Tesla until August 12 to document its FSD visibility-degradation fix
The agency's information request, issued July 2, gave Tesla until Wednesday to hand over the design, testing and deployment history of the system meant to detect when Full Self-Driving's cameras are impaired.
Tesla owners report Hardware 3 computer failures after the FSD v14 Lite update
Owners running Tesla's older Autopilot computer reported overheating and dropped driver-assistance functions after an over-the-air update, in accounts collected by Electrek that Tesla has not addressed.
Tesla puts ByteDance's Doubao model into its China cockpit over the air
A staged update released in China on July 31 installs ByteDance's Doubao as an in-car voice assistant, Tesla's first use of a domestic Chinese language model, according to CnEVPost and Sina Finance.
Volkswagen opens orders for the ID. AURA T6 on its China-developed CEA architecture
FAW-Volkswagen began taking blind pre-orders for the ID. AURA T6, a battery-electric SUV on the electronic architecture developed with XPeng, according to CarNewsChina.
UNECE task force puts software identification numbers on the agenda for R156
The cybersecurity and over-the-air updates task force will take up extending RXSWIN to UN R156 and pushing R155 duties down onto components and separate technical units.
China logs two software recalls on GAC Toyota's bZ7, both remedied over the air
Regulator filings cover 39,552 electric sedans with gear-shift and thermal-management software defects — the fix is a free OTA push beginning August 1.
Zeekr pledges user control of its geofence lockout after stranding an owner abroad
After a 9X owner lost vehicle functions for about 30 hours while traveling abroad, Zeekr promised an OTA-delivered switch for its cross-border restriction, off by default.
Huawei begins fleet-wide OTA rollout of ADS 5 on its new WEWA 2.0 architecture
HarmonyOS Zhixing started pushing the rebuilt Qiankun ADS 5 driving stack to the AITO M5 through M9 range, according to Chinese media reports.
NIO's Onvo updates a fleet whose top trims output steering and pedal control end to end
The Coconut+ 3.1.0 update optimizes navigation and parking assist on 2026 Max+ and Ultra+ trims, whose NX9031-and-NWM stack outputs steering and pedal signals directly, according to Chinese media reports.
Tesla's second quarter shows software subscriptions scaling faster than deliveries
Active FSD (Supervised) subscriptions reached 1.48 million, up 56 percent year over year against deliveries up 25 percent, with a record attach rate in North America.
Volvo rolls out Apple Music to more than two million cars over the air
A global OTA update adds native Apple Music integration to Volvo models back to model year 2020, with Spatial Audio on the newest cars.