The ERL's Mission

Technology to the People!
Accelerate automotive innovation by harvesting Silicon Valley energy!

Inspiration, Research, Leadership - the ERL accelerates automotive innovation by harvesting Silicon Valley energy!

We work to expand and extend the Volkswagen Group’s technical intelligence and maintain the North American Market as the epicenter of electronics expertise.

Our success is measured by the benefit this knowledge brings to Volkswagen Group of America’s customers and the VW Group as a whole.

Our Shared Values

• Innovation
• • Vorsprung! Passionately stretching the limits of technology.
• Teamwork
• • Working together to make our cars the most desirable through technology innovation.
• Efficiency/Efficacy
• • Getting the job done with the fewest resources.
• Integrity
• • Basing one's actions on an internally consistent framework of principles!
• Respect
• • Knowing and valuing yours and others' skills, knowledge, perspectives, ideas and work; be aware of your impact on our products and the environment.
• Work hard, have fun
• • Be passionate in what you do and celebrate the successes.
• Image
• • Listen to, explain, engage with your colleagues; offer encouragement and make an effort to accommodate others. Clean up your environment.