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The vehicle lighting industry employs about 100,000 managers and engineers, and recruits about 10,000 per year. Where from? Universities, overwhelmingly. Universities are also important for the lighting industry as their cooperation accelerates fundamental research, as well as research to demonstrate the safety benefit of new technologies—a necessary step before new kinds of lighting is allowed…
Dr. Tara Akhavan (Ph.D) is an acclaimed technology entrepreneur and leader in automotive display image processing. She is the founder; president, and CEO of Forvia IRYStec. Akhavan was crowned Entrepreneur of the Year 2019 by EoY Canada, and listed as a top-20 innovative Canadian startup founder in 2018 by CIX. Originally from Iran, she moved…
Ford are advertising a new Men’s-Only Edition of their popular Explorer SUV. But it isn’t reserved for only male drivers—it’s been stripped of all equipment invented by women. That means no brake lights; no turn signals; no rearview mirror; no windshield wipers; no heater, and no navigation system. All those things were invented or made…
The goal is to bring a fleet of 50 fully autonomous vehicles to Oslo’s roads by late 2024 or early 2025. The promise of driverless on-demand vehicles whisking passengers from the airport to the city center or providing last-mile transport services remains unfulfilled. Self-driving technology projects continue to run around the world. In Norway, the…
The Chinese vehicle market increased in 2022 to 26.7 million vehicles from 25.5 million in 2021.At the opposite, January 2023, light-vehicle wholesales were 1.65 Mn units, which was a sharp contraction of 34 per cent year-on-year. The decline in sales in the first month of this year was caused by a combination of factors. Firstly,…
The DVN lighting community comprises 1,500 Gold members from 160 companies, including around 30 carmakers; 40 lighting tier-1 suppliers; 15 light source suppliers; 60 tier-2 & -3 suppliers; universities, and research outfits. There’s a giant treasure trove of relevant information waiting for you on the DVN website, including around 10,000 articles from 800 DVNewsletters on…
VW’s ID.2all concept, about the size of a Polo (for North American readers, that means smaller than a Golf) is among 10 new battery-electric vehicles VW plan to launch by 2026. It takes a more modern design approach than VW’s first small electric car design, and this time there’s a GTI model planned, as well.…
Last week, the European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC) held a conference on automotive microLEDs. Highlights: Volvo’s lighting chief, Paul-Henri Matha, explained his company’s diverse concepts for ADB. MicroLED technology, he said, is required for high-definition headlamps. Volvo offer a DLP solution with light source and micro-mirrors, and they’re looking at 100-kilopixel systems for 2026. Morphotonics‘s…
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