January 2026

Corporate Vision Best AI-Powered Software Defined Vehicle Platform 2025 The automotive world is undergoing one of the biggest engineering shifts in its history. The industry is no longer defined only by hardware and manufacturing lines. It is being reshaped by software, by new expectations for continuous improvement, and by the growing demand for vehicles that can evolve after they leave the factory. The automotive industry is shifting toward Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs), meaning vehicles are built and improved continuously through software. SODA.Auto is creating the first end to end SDV engineering tool chain that fully covers vehicle development from requirements and architecture to development, simulation, validation, and deployment in one new way. This is not just an improvement tool. It is a change in what becomes possible. Instead of treating software engineering as a fragmented set of tasks spread across disconnected systems, SODA is rebuilding the SDV lifecycle as one coherent process. The goal is to make the complexity of SDVs manageable, scalable, and reusable, so that vehicle programs can move faster without sacrificing safety, quality, or confidence. SODA.Auto is solving a world-scale problem that many believe only giant corporations can solve. The company is proving that a focused startup can redesign the industrial foundation of automotive. That belief is especially important today because the automotive industry in Western markets is at an inflection point. EV transition, regulation, global SDV competition with players in Asia, cost pressure, and software complexity are forcing rapid change. Many OEMs and EV companies are feeling this pressure from all sides. They need to innovate faster and respond to customers more dynamically, while also meeting new regulatory standards, controlling costs, and managing increasing technical complexity. SDVs are the future, but developing them at scale is hard, expensive, and slow using traditional approaches. SODA.Auto brings good to the world by accelerating safer, cleaner, smarter vehicles. Faster and more efficient development reduces waste and gets innovations to people sooner. This is where SODA team’s mission becomes larger than the automotive industry itself. Improving how vehicles are built does not only help companies move faster. It helps society. Cleaner vehicles reach markets sooner. Safety improvements can be deployed with confidence. And smarter systems can be validated and scaled without unnecessary waste or repeated engineering effort. SODA.Auto differs from peers because it covers the entire SDV problem in one platform. A few leading OEMs and EV companies have managed to build end to end SDV development processes using existing fragmented tools inside their own organizations, but SODA goes further by providing a unified engineering platform which brings efficiency, collaboration and joy into the process. The platform was designed to eliminate unnecessary friction in engineering. Instead of forcing teams to stitch together workflows, translate between systems, or reinvent solutions for every new program, SODA creates an environment where engineering becomes continuous and reusable by default. SODA.Auto was built for this mission from the start, to make vehicle development possible within a few clicks. The company dared to look at the process end to end - from requirements to certification: remove everything non-essential, keep only what is truly necessary, and then rebuild the SDV lifecycle from a clean foundation. That “clean foundation” is what makes it possible to change the speed, quality, and economics of SDV development at scale. This is not about adding one more tool to an already crowded tool stack. It is about creating a new engineering method where every part of the lifecycle is connected and automated. SODA team delivers measurable results by turning SDV development into a continuous, automated, and reusable process that is already running inside real vehicle programs today. The platform enables Ready for Production outcomes 10x faster and at 4x less cost, while increasing confidence in software quality before production. These outcomes matter because they prove that the vision is real and operational. The SDV lifecycle automation that SODA is building is not theoretical. It is already delivering results in production-scale environments, and it is already helping engineering teams reduce waste, shorten timelines, and improve quality before vehicles reach customers. In 2026 the focus is on scaling automotive deployments and expanding the method into Software Defined Anything. Marine, rail, aerospace, robotics, and other complex sectors are the next industries to adopt the platform. The SDV transformation is only the beginning. As more industries become software-defined, the ability to engineer complex systems through a unified, automated platform will become foundational across the economy. SODA team’s approach is designed to scale beyond automotive, into every sector where software defines how products are built, validated, and continuously improved. SODA.Auto was named Best AI-Powered Software Defined Vehicle Platform 2025 because it is radically improving the way vehicle software is created. This accolade ultimately reflects the scale of the transformation SODA is delivering. Contact Details: Contact: Ksenia Sternina Email: [email protected] Company: SODA.Auto Website: https://soda.auto/

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