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Sales of Volkswagen’s Golf were up 32% year on year last month
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Ford, Peugeot crack Top Five in Reliability
In a confidential ranking of car makers’ reliability in Europe (Ranked by the number of incidents per car after one year use), Ford is ranked third and Peugeot fifth, both better than VW and Audi.
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BMW Top Innovator: Suppliers
North American parts suppliers consider BMW the automaker best at adopting innovations, according to an Automotive News study compiled with J.D. Power and Associates.
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$80m in LED Wingtip Lighting
LED lighting is going from strength to strength in ground transport vehicles, and now LEDs are taking flight: Honeywell and Airbus have signed a contract for $80m (USD) worth of LED wingtip lighting
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LED Revolution Carries On
Advanced lighting technology — LEDs in particular — continues to enable new techniques to enhance vehicle brand identity. An increasing number of production vehicles are using LED lights,
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OLED Future Will Brighten From 2011
Hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in OLED (organic light-emitting diode) technology, especially in Europe, the US, and Japan.
Over 130 companies and universities and
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Hella Plant Faces 2010 Chop
Hella Lighting Corp. have announced they will close their U.K. manufacturing facility at York by May 2010 as a result of the global economic slowdown. The plant closure will erase 400 jobs.
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Gales to Head Peugeot, Supervise Citroën
PSA‘s new CEO Philippe Varin has appointed Citroën boss Jean-Marc Gales to lead Peugeot and to oversee Citroën as the head of PSA’s overall brand strategy.
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Stuttgart workshop report – May 5, 2009
Most of the German companies and Valeo sat together giving statements as a mix of their personal opinions to strengthen community links amongst lighting players, and use differing positions to challenge ideas and vision through several topics.
Participants:
Wolfgang Huhn, Audi general manager, Lighting technologies/switches.
Stefan Danner, BMW general manager, Lighting and vision systems.
Thorsten Warvel, Ford general manager, Lighting systems.
Ingolf Schneider, Opel general manager, Lighting systems.
Kamislav Fadel, Automotive Lighting, R&D manager.
Michael Hamm, Automotive Lighting, head of department, R&D lighting technology.
Hans Theo Dorissen, Hella Vice President, Lighting division.
Bernd Waldmann, Odelo R&D manager.
Jean-Paul Charret, Valeo Lighting Systems, R&D manager.
Rainer Neumann, Visteon R&D manager.
Willi Brandenburg, Brandenburg company director.
Jens Fischer, Docter Optics business development manager.
Claus Allgeier, Osram Vice President, R&D Specialty Lighting.
Ralf Schäfer, Philips Senior director, Headlighting.
Herbert Trummer, Sonceboz director Mechatronic division.
Professor Khanh, Darmstadt university, ISAL chairman.
Lex Krzyzanowski, LSS Initiative chairman
Hector Fratty, Driving Vision News editor.
There was substantial agreement amongst all the participants in many topics, with differences between participants only on a few topics — the perspectives and priorities of premium car makers, generalist car makers, tier 1 lighting suppliers and tier 2 suppliers are not always convergent.
Six common points of consensus amongst all participants
1. Safety without style is not enough. Users do not consider lights as safety systems, but still look for style and design perception.
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