On this page, the resources and documentations for all VEC versions can be found.
The publication process, the versioning scheme and the distributed artefacts are described here.
The VDA recommendation 4968 “Vehicle Electric Container (VEC)” defines an information model, a data dictionary, and an XML schema derived from and compliant to the model.The intention of the model was to cover a wide range of use cases and application scenarios. For this reason the specification had to be kept generic in some degree and in some aspects. However, for specific scenarios and / or use cases a more detailed description on “how the different pieces fit together” is possible. More...
This version is the 3rd edition of the “Vehicle Electric Container (VEC)” PSI 21 / VDA 4968 Recommendation. It contains many improvements and extensions in various areas and it also publishes the changes from previous minor versions (1.1.1 - 1.1.3) in the form of a formal recommendation. More...
This version brings features in the area of electrical design (especially new semantics for the 3 layers (Net, Connection, and Wiring Specification). Additionally there are a lot of small improvements, mainly new attributes, for the description of components and new OpenEnumerations. More...
This version brings features introduced in KBL 2.4 to the VEC. Additionally it also implements feature requests and bug fixes brought up during the first implementations in the area of component descriptions. For detailed release notes see VEC JIRA Release Notes. For this version no new specification document will be published. More...
This version fixes a technical bug in the namespace declaration, only. The 1.1.0 model description and the associated tutorials are still valid. More...