First Vehicle Interior Report From DVN-I
As you might know, Driving Vision News has branched into a second activity channel, called DVN-I, for DVN Interior. Philippe Aumont, one of the best experts in the auto interior…
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Hector Fratty
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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.
Takeaways From Auto Interior Shows in H1-2019
1. CES • Las Vegas
CES last January held up a mirror to the revolutions in the auto industry. Everything in the automotive industry is increasingly geared toward CASE (connected, autonomous, shared and electric) vehicles. These trends are complementing each other, and it was very visible at the 2019 CES that their first aggregated combination will be electric, completely autonomous robo-taxis.
Old borders between industries and sectors are changing, no matter whether we’re looking at automakers, tier-1 and -2 suppliers, or companies and industries previously wholly outside the automotive realm. There are new automakers and car brands, Byton, Polestar, Nio, Lynk & Co, Qoros, and others; previously unknown Chinese automakers like Aiways, Landwind, and Xpeng; digital outfits like GAFA, entertainment companies like Warner and Paramount, electronics companies including Samsung, Panasonic, Sony, and Pioneer; computer processor suppliers such as Intel, Qualcomm, and Nvidia; mobility service providers, and many startups now jostling to produce and equip tomorrow’s mobility interiors.
Robo-Taxi concepts were present in great volume at CES. Several manufacturers, Mercedes (Urbanetic), Toyota (MOOX), Audi (Aicon), Kia (READ Emotion), Nissan (Intelligent mobility) and their suppliers Denso, Aisin, Continental, Mobis, ZF showed a self-driving lounge concept that promises to turn drivers into riders and shuttle them from A to B in a cube on wheels. Naturally, we had to check them all out, and explore what it could mean for their interior experience at this stage of development.
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Marelli Aim for the 0.5th Tier
Beda Bolzenius (photo), is a 63-year-old German who spent the first half of his career moving up through the management of Johnson Controls.
Now he’s in charge of Marelli. Bolzenius says KKR and the executive team envision a new corporate topography
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Osram to consider a $3.8b takeover bid
German lighting Osram said that its supervisory board would meet soon to review a binding offer from private equity firms Bain and Carly to buy the company for €3.4 billion.
The two investors have offered 35 euros ($39.49) a share, Osram said in a statement,
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Hella to Make Electronics for BAIC
Hella are planning to make electronic components for BAIC Motor under a 50-50 joint venture with BAIC parts subsidiary Beijing Hainachuan Automotive Parts in the east China city of Zhenjiang.
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The plant, is expected to start production in early 2020,
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LRC, Lumitex in Strategic Pact
The LRC (Lighting Research Center) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is forming a new strategic collaboration wit Lumitex, an innovator in lighting and light-based technologies. The LRC and Lumitex will coöperatively develop a joint research agenda
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Analog Devices, First Sensor in AV Lidar Tie-In
Analog Devices (ADI) are collaboratiing with First Sensor to develop and commercialise sensing technology for autonomous vehicles in transport and other industries.
As part of the collaboration, the two companies are developing offerings to shrink the lidar signal
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Valeo : €500 million of orders for its ‘Lidar’ sensors
Valeo has won €500 million worth of orders for its ‘Lidar’ car sensor products, Valeo executive Marc Vrecko told Reuters in an interview, highlighting the potential growth of Lidar.
“Those €500 million of orders with four major global auto groups will probably
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A New R&D Centre for Sense Photonics
Sense Photonics—experts in lidar and 3D sensors for AVs and industrial automation, will expand their presence in Scotland following a £1.9m (€2.12m, $2.38m) grant from Scottish Enterprise.
With the support, Sense Photonics will open an
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Who are the Auto Parts Big Gorillas?
The annual Automotive News ranking of the top global suppliers reveals, they remain in much the same order of size as they were a year ago.
Top global suppliers (in $bn)
Bosch, Denso, Magna, Continental and ZF Friedrichshafen remain the world’s
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