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Audi DIGITAL

DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-01
Digital Score 1.18 /10 B Audi - BDS-1000 732
Digital 1.18

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Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships

AUDI AG is a Volkswagen Group company, and Volkswagen AG reports holding direct or indirect interests in AUDI AG 1. Audi’s 2025 reporting defines the Audi Group as Volkswagen’s Brand Group Progressive, comprising Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini, and Ducati 2.

Konnect with the Volkswagen Group describes itself as a Tel Aviv-based Volkswagen Group innovation hub established to discover, evaluate, and integrate Israeli technologies into Group vehicles and factories 3. Konnect identifies Audi among the Group brands and describes an Audi Q4 “InnoCar” used to develop and integrate proofs of concept involving external technologies 3.

Konnect states that CARIAD integrated Mappo, described as an AI-powered infotainment application, into Audi’s Car OS for location-linked cultural content and media in navigation 3. The reviewed source does not disclose Mappo’s contractual counterparty, deployment scale, hosting location, data categories, access controls, or data-processing terms 3.

No public evidence identified, within the reviewed Audi, Volkswagen Group, and Konnect materials, of Audi licensing or integrating a specifically identified Israeli-origin enterprise-security vendor, including Check Point, Wiz, SentinelOne, CyberArk, NICE, Verint, Claroty, or Palo Alto Networks.

Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology

No public evidence identified, within the reviewed company materials, Volkswagen Group innovation-hub material, and focused searches, that Audi uses Israeli-origin facial recognition, retail biometrics, gait analysis, predictive policing, sentiment analysis, social-media monitoring, or workforce-surveillance tools.

Konnect reports testing a touchless driver-vital-signs sensing suite and a separate driving-under-the-influence detection technology based on micro-movement analysis 3. Konnect attributes those tests to “our team,” does not name Audi as the deploying entity, and does not establish production deployment in Audi vehicles 3.

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation

Audi’s 2023 report states that it was testing cloud technology applications in production and rolling them out for series-production use 4. That report does not identify an Israeli data centre, Israeli cloud region, Israeli jurisdictional access arrangement, Project Nimbus participation, or an Israeli cloud provider 4.

Audi stated in January 2026 that it was scaling its production-cloud platform and using a large cloud to control production systems rather than stationary factory computers 5. The cited examples concern German production sites and do not identify Israeli infrastructure or state customers 5.

Israel’s Ministry of Finance describes Project Nimbus as a government cloud initiative 6. The Ministry’s Nimbus announcement does not name Audi 6.

No public evidence identified, within the reviewed Audi disclosures, Israeli government Nimbus material, and focused procurement and news searches, that Audi operates or leases data-centre capacity in Israel; participates in Project Nimbus; or provides cloud, hosting, resilience, or data-sovereignty services to Israeli state institutions or the military.

Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships

No public evidence identified, within the reviewed official Israeli government material, Audi and Volkswagen disclosures, and major-news results, of an Audi contract or service agreement with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, the Israel Defense Forces, intelligence agencies, or another Israeli security body.

No public evidence identified of Audi developing, selling, licensing, or maintaining offensive cyber capabilities or digital weapons for Israeli state actors.

The identified Israeli commercial channel is Champion Motors, which the European Commission described as the direct importer and distributor in Israel for Audi, Volkswagen, Škoda, and SEAT and as a subsidiary of Allied Holdings 7. Volkswagen’s technical-information importer directory continues to list Champion Motors for Israel in a directory that includes Audi technical queries 8.

The available importer evidence establishes a distribution channel and does not establish an AUDI AG subsidiary, equity interest, defence relationship, or technology contract with Israeli state entities 7, 8.

AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems

Konnect’s reported CARIAD–Mappo integration concerns an AI-powered infotainment function in Audi’s Car OS for location-linked cultural content and media 3. The reviewed source does not describe the integration as a system for military, intelligence, policing, targeting, fire control, or autonomous-weapons use 3.

Audi’s 2026 production-AI announcement concerns manufacturing applications and its production-cloud platform 5. The announcement does not identify Israeli state, military, intelligence, or law-enforcement customers 5.

No public evidence identified, within the reviewed source classes, that Audi supplied AI, machine-learning, computer-vision, or autonomous decision-support systems to Israeli state, military, or security bodies; trained models on surveillance-derived civilian data from Israel or occupied territory; or supplied autonomous targeting or automated threat-detection systems to Israeli forces.

Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint

Konnect describes itself as a Volkswagen Group innovation hub in Tel Aviv, founded in 2018, and as the Group’s first fully owned entity in Israel 3. This evidences a Volkswagen Group footprint rather than a separately established Audi-operated Israeli R&D centre 3.

Konnect states that Israeli solar-film startup Apollo Power signed an MOU with Audi after a year of discussions and testing for an innovation project 9. Konnect further states that Audi and Apollo Power integrated flexible solar films into fibre-reinforced-plastic components, including rooftops and hoods 3, 9.

The described Apollo Power work concerns electrification and materials technology rather than a digital product 9. The reviewed sources do not disclose the MOU date, commercial value, production status, current contractual status, or allocation of ownership and funding among Volkswagen Group entities 3, 9.

No public evidence identified, within the reviewed company and innovation-hub materials, of an Audi acquisition of an Israeli technology company, an Audi investment in an Israeli technology venture fund, or a significant Audi patent or co-development arrangement with an Israeli university or research institute.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History

No public evidence identified an Audi mention in the specified OHCHR materials, the cited A/HRC/59/23 material, or the listed NGO-report-library documents reviewed in the supplied document-scoped pre-scan. This finding is limited to those reviewed documents and does not establish database-wide absence.

No public evidence identified, within the reviewed civil-society-library pre-scan and focused searches, of an organised boycott or divestment campaign specifically concerning Audi technology provision to Israeli state entities or occupied territories.

No public evidence identified, within the reviewed materials, of a technology-related regulatory, export-control, sanctions, or legal action concerning Audi provision of technology to Israeli state entities or occupied territories.

AUDI AG is registered in Germany as HRB 1, with its registered address at Auto-Union-Straße 1, 85057 Ingolstadt 10. Audi’s legal notice identifies Gernot Döllner as Chairman of its Board of Management 10.

Audi announced that its Supervisory Board appointed Gernot Döllner Chairman of the Board of Management effective 1 September 2023 11. The same announcement identified Manfred Döss as Chairman of Audi’s Supervisory Board at that time 11.

Volkswagen AG’s 2025 shareholder disclosure reports voting rights in its ordinary shares of 53.3% for Porsche Automobil Holding SE, 20.0% for the State of Lower Saxony, 17.0% for Qatar Holding LLC, and 9.7% free float as of 31 December 2025 12. This parent-level disclosure does not establish ownership or control by Israeli state institutions, Israeli corporations, or Israeli controlling individuals 12.

No public evidence identified in the reviewed official corporate records of an AUDI AG-incorporated subsidiary, branch, R&D site, or office in Israel. The reviewed evidence instead identifies Champion Motors and Allied Holdings as the relevant Israeli importer relationship 7, 8.

Footnotes

  1. https://annualreport2025.volkswagen-group.com/group-management-report/structure-and-business-activities.html ↩

  2. https://www.volkswagen-group.com/en/publications/more/audi-ag-annual-and-sustainability-report-2025-3227/download?disposition=attachment ↩

  3. https://konnect-vwgroup.com/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12

  4. https://media.audi.com/is/content/audi/microsites/audi-com/assets/downloads/report/annual-reports/2023/en/audi-report-2023.pdf ↩ ↩2

  5. https://www.audi.com/en/press-releases/audi-scales-up-deployment-of-artificial-intelligence-in-production-17002 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  6. https://www.gov.il/en/pages/_bpress_20102022 ↩ ↩2

  7. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX%3A32019M9355 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  8. https://volkswagen.erwin-store.com/erwin/showImporter.do ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  9. https://konnect-vwgroup.com/activities/apollo-power-audi-cooperation/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  10. https://www.audi-mediacenter.com/en/privacy-3699 ↩ ↩2

  11. https://www.audi-mediacenter.com/en/press-releases/gernot-doellner-named-as-new-audi-ceo-15439/download ↩ ↩2

  12. https://annualreport2025.volkswagen-group.com/group-management-report/shares-and-bonds/shareholder-structure.html ↩ ↩2