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The Car Connectivity Consortium® (CCC), the trusted source for defining how vehicles interact with devices and the world to enhance the consumer experience through standardized, secure, and convenient connectivity solutions, today released its 2025 Future of Vehicle Connectivity Report. The findings reveal how automakers, suppliers, and technology providers across regions are aligning around secure, seamless connectivity as a foundation for innovation.

The Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), the trusted source for defining how vehicles interact with devices and the world to enhance the consumer experience through standardized, secure, and convenient connectivity solutions, today kicked off its thirteenth Plugfest in Cupertino, CA. This event brings together members from across the automotive, device, and technology sectors to advance the next phase of CCC Digital Key™ certification. Hosted by Apple, a CCC member, this Plugfest focuses on real-world testing of the Digital Key Version 4 specification to further improve cross-platform interoperability and cross-version compatibility as adoption continues to grow rapidly.

The Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), the trusted source for defining how vehicles interact with devices and the world to enhance the consumer experience through standardized, secure, and convenient connectivity solutions, announced today its CCC Digital Key™ Certification Program now includes coverage for Bluetooth® Low Energy (LE) and ultra-wideband (UWB) technologies. This expansion builds on the existing certification, which addresses the Near-Field Communication (NFC) components of a digital key solution, and will incorporate additional functionalities, such as remote access, passive entry, and passive start.

The Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), the trusted source for defining how vehicles interact with devices and the world to enhance the consumer experience through standardized, secure, and convenient connectivity solutions, will kick off its twelfth Plugfest this week alongside BMW Group. The event is being held at the automaker’s headquarters in Munich, Germany. This event will serve as a testing ground for leading automakers, device manufacturers, and technology providers to validate and refine CCC Digital Key™ implementations.

The Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), a cross-industry organization dedicated to advancing vehicle-to-device connectivity solutions, achieved significant growth in 2024. CCC’s notable strides over the last year include expanding its membership base, strengthening the CCC Digital Key™ specification and CCC Digital Key™ Certification Program, building its presence in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, and growing its industry footprint through participation in several events. This momentum enables the CCC to continue to pursue its vision of defining how vehicles interact with devices and the world to improve the consumer experience.

The Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), a cross-industry organization dedicated to advancing vehicle-to-device connectivity solutions, announced today it is gathering in Hillsboro, Oregon, alongside major device makers, automotive manufacturers, and technology companies to further CCC Digital Key™ interoperability testing, with a strong focus on ultra-wideband (UWB) and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). This will be the tenth Plugfest for the CCC, and the organization will be joined by members Google, Ellisys, Qualcomm, Thales, COMPRION, DEKRA, BMW Group, and other major automakers as they work to realize the full potential of the CCC Digital Key specification, which incorporates UWB and BLE on top of the existing near-field communication (NFC) capabilities.

The Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), a cross-industry standards organization dedicated to advancing vehicle-to-device connectivity solutions, today announced a major milestone in the CCC Digital Key™️ Certification Program: automotive manufacturer BMW Group and semiconductor manufacturer NXP® Semiconductors have become the first two organizations to earn CCC Digital Key certification. BMW Group was certified for their comprehensive digital key product, which allows drivers to use their CCC Digital Key enabled smart phone to lock, unlock and drive their vehicle utilizing near-field communication capabilities (NFC). NXP was certified for the secure element and NFC chipsets within their digital key solution, which enable accessing and starting of a car with an NFC-enabled device.

The Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), a cross-industry standards organization dedicated to advancing device-to-car connectivity solutions, today announced that the CCC Digital Key™ Applet Protection Profile complies with the standards of the renowned German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), becoming the only digital key application to receive this security designation. The BSI certification ensures this element of the larger CCC Digital Key architecture meets their highest threshold for security, so device and vehicle OEMs can ensure their users are able to securely and safely access their vehicles, create and delete digital keys, share a digital key with others, and start their vehicle. With digital keys, manufacturers must ensure their implementations are designed to prevent known hardware- and software-based attacks, such as tampering, storage intrusion, cloning, relay attacks, and unauthorized access.

Today, the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), a cross-industry organization focused on the development of smartphone-to-car connectivity solutions, announced it gathered in Ulm, Germany this past week to test the latest version of the CCC Digital Key™ specification, release 3 version 1.1.3. This was the eighth Plugfest for this organization and its members, which included participants from BYD, CARIAD, COMPRION, Continental, Google, Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst GmbH, Marquardt GmbH, and Qualcomm and served to further refine the CCC Digital Key applications, enhancing implementations, specifications, test suites, and tools.

Today, the Car Connectivity Consortium® (CCC) announced the CCC Digital Key Certification is now available for NFC implementation to its industry-leading vehicle and device members. The certification is pivotal to instilling trust among consumers and the industry because CCC Digital Key provides a global standard for interoperability. This enables auto and device manufacturers to deliver secure, user-friendly experiences for digital key access.

The Car Connectivity Consortium® (CCC) and the FiRa® Consortium are pleased to announce the formation of the Joint Ultra-Wideband (UWB) MAC PHY Working Group (JUMPWG) to jointly develop and maintain the UWB technology specifications used in the CCC Digital Key and will be led by Chair Jinjing Jiang from Member company Apple.

The Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC) announced today that top automotive and smart device manufacturers gathered to continue the progression of testing for the CCC Digital Key. The event, CCC End-to-End Interoperability PlugFest #6, was hosted by DENSO in Detroit, Michigan, on September 18-22 and focused on advancing the Ultra-Wideband and Bluetooth LE technology in the CCC’s Digital Key.

The Car Connectivity Consortium® (CCC) announced today that PlugFest #4, hosted by BMW, shifted gears to focus on Cross-Device Friend sharing and Bluetooth and UWB testing and brought together major automakers and device makers to help advance CCC Digital Key® in delivering a secure, effortless, and universal standard for vehicle access. The PlugFest event took place June 19-23, 2023, in Munich, Germany, and served as another critical step towards the advancement of the CCC Digital Key certification.

The Car Connectivity Consortium® (CCC) announced today that major players in the automotive and global smart device industries came together to advance CCC Digital Key, delivering a secure, effortless, and universal way for vehicle access. The event, CCC End-to-End Interoperability PlugFest #3, was hosted by Google, in San Jose, CA, on March 27-31, 2023 and is a milestone in the consortium’s advancement of the CCC Digital Key certification.

The Car Connectivity Consortium® (CCC) announced today the appointment of DENSO, a leading mobility supplier, as their newest Charter member. With this, the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), will also welcome Eric Smith, Chief Architect, Digital Key, at DENSO, who will be joining the Board of Directors.

The Car Connectivity Consortium® (CCC) today announced that its Digital Key Release 3 v1.1 specification is finalized and now available to CCC members and to the public. Digital Key is a standardized ecosystem that enables mobile devices to store, authenticate, and share Digital Keys for vehicles in a secure, privacy-preserving way that works everywhere. In addition, CCC has successfully completed two interoperability plugfests, signaling a major milestone toward the launch of the Digital Key Certification Program.

The Car Connectivity Consortium® (CCC) announced today the appointment of two Members of Staff to join the organization’s leadership team and two industry leaders, Thales and Xiaomi, engaging on the Board. Alysia Johnson will serve as Vice President, and James Schuessler as Technical Director. The expanded leadership team will help accelerate the ecosystem for the CCC Digital Key standard, which enables anyone to use a mobile device to store, authenticate, and share Digital Keys for their vehicle.

The Car Connectivity Consortium® (CCC) today announced that its Digital Key Release 3.0 White Paper – The Future of Vehicle Access – is now available for download. The white paper offers compelling descriptions of the many end-user benefits that vehicle and consumer electronics manufacturers can offer with solutions based on the CCC Digital Key Release 3.0 Specification.

The Car Connectivity Consortium® (CCC) today announced that its CCC Digital Key Release 3.0 specification is finalized and now available to CCC members. The new specification enables passive keyless access and engine start from a compatible mobile device via Ultra Wideband (UWB) in combination with Bluetooth® Low Energy wireless technologies.

The Car Connectivity Consortium® (CCC) today announced that its Digital Key Release 3.0 specification – which adds Bluetooth Low Energy and Ultra Wideband (UWB) wireless connectivity technologies to enable compatible mobile devices with passive keyless access and engine start – is planned for completion by the middle of 2021.