500…and counting!
Last week, DVN published our 500th newsletter. That’s been one newsletter published each and every one of the last five hundred weeks, non-stop. It has been a permanent challenge to…
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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.
DVN at № 500: Achievements and Goals
DVN marked a major milestone last week; this what you’re reading today is the 501st consecutive weekly Driving Vision Newsletter. What’s more, before the end of this year we’ll publish our 120th DVN Report. As you know, DVN Reports cover a diverse range of topics including technical congresses, workshops, and auto shows around the world; technologies and techniques, research and regulation, profiles of DVN member companies, and reports on the lighting and ADAS activities of particular car makers.
The 11 scheduled reports of 2017 are:
January: NAIAS (Detroit auto show)
February: DVN US Workshop
March: Geneva auto show
April: Simulations
May: Shanghai auto show
June: DVN Shanghai Workshop
July: Interior lighting
September : Israeli startups
October: IAA (Frankfurt auto show)
November: ISAL
December: Jaguar Land Rover
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Hella Earnings Up in FY16-17
Hella continued their profitable growth in the 2016-17 fiscal year (1 June 2016 to 31 May 2017), increasing both sales and earnings.
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New Phosphor for Better LEDs
Researchers from KU Leuven (Belgium), the University of Strasbourg, and CNRS have invented a new phosphor that could make next-generation
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Curved OLEDs Coming from Corning
Since two Aprils ago, glass company Corning have been coöperating with OLEDWorks. In the first demonstration of what the companies
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Demand Rising for Aftermaket LEDs in China
Demand for automotive headlights with pluggable LED light sources has taken off in China’s car maintenance sector, and Lumileds,
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Lextar Partners with China Aftermarket Maker
Taiwan-based vertically-integrated LED firm Lextar Electronics have formed a strategic alliance with Guangzhou ZEO Electronic Technology,
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ADAS Causing Car Wash Woes
Today’s cars with advanced driver-assistance technology might have a bit of a blind spot: increasing numbers of them can’t get through a car wash.
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Renault-Nissan Alliance: Record sales increase in H1-2017
Unit sales at the Alliance rose seven 7% to 5,268,000vehicles in the first half of the calendar year resulting from an increased demand
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VW profit jumps as core brand pushes cost cuts, models
The group’s Porsche, Bentley, Skoda, Seat and Skoda brands showed healthy profits in the first half while Audi’s earnings were flat.
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