Finnish e-mobility technology company Donut Lab has introduced DonutOS, a new software platform designed to reinvent how electric vehicles are conceived, engineered and validated. By tightly linking virtual modeling with real-world vehicle behavior, DonutOS delivers what the company calls Digital Twin 2.0 — a fully interactive virtual EV that mirrors every system and data flow of the physical product.
For years, EV development has been hindered by fragmented tools, siloed workflows and the high costs associated with physical prototyping. As vehicles became software-defined systems, these gaps only grew wider. DonutOS consolidates the entire development process into a single environment that enables teams to design, simulate, validate and prepare vehicle behavior before any hardware is built.
“Our goal with DonutOS is to let manufacturers design the entire vehicle — hardware, software and behaviour — as one digital organism. This levels the playing field so smaller mobility companies can innovate at the pace of major OEMs, without requiring massive engineering resources,” said Donut Lab CEO Marko Lehtimäki.
Earlier digital twins focused on components; DonutOS models the entire vehicle. Its Digital Twin 2.0 provides a high-fidelity virtual EV with full system behavior, allowing engineers to:
- Evaluate EV responses to physics, environments and sensor inputs before production
- View complete telemetry and data-bus activity as it would appear in a real vehicle
- Deploy the same validated software from the digital twin directly to production hardware, ensuring seamless continuity
- Scaling innovation for startups and original equipment manufacturers
DonutOS provides advanced development capabilities to small teams while enabling large OEMs to simplify internal collaboration through a shared, unified model. Built on the Donut Platform, the software offers a direct path to production rather than remaining a purely experimental tool.
As part of the launch, Donut Lab has unveiled a Global Innovators Program, granting select EV companies early access to DonutOS, new technologies, tailored engineering support and preferential low-volume pricing. General availability for DonutOS will be announced at a later date.
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