Kia’s big new EV9 electric SUV, set to go on sale later this month, has interesting lights at both ends. The taillights are an extremely homogeneous red technical-architectural structure hewing to the sculpted, rounded-rectilinear bodyside shape. It’s not yet known which colour the turn signals will be on the American-spec model, but interestingly, there’s no…
Hector Fratty
Hector Fratty, DrivingVisionNews President and Founder has been for his entire career in automotive lighting. From 1995 to 2006, he was Valeo Lighting Systems’ chief of R&D, managing a staff of 650 engineers and technicians and a budget of over €70m. He holds 20 patents worldwide. In 2008, after 2 years’ consultancy, he initiated the launch of Driving Vision News, a news pipeline dedicated to keeping the lighting and driver assistance community informed of the latest progress and development in the industry. Hector Fratty presides over the highly‐regarded biennial VISION Congress international automotive lighting and driver assistance symposium. Hector Fratty is also a member of the ISAL steering committees.