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Honda, Nissan and Toyota, prognosticating at the Tokyo Motor Show last week, all said they plan to sell cars by 2020 that will allow drivers to give up the wheel in traffic jams
At the 2015 Tokyo Motor Show, Nissan has reiterated its two corporate visions for a sustainable mobile society: «Zero Emissionan» and «Zero Fatality».
Noted vehicle industry commentator and marketing veteran Bertel Schmitt has a post up discussing the views of Toyota’s new Self-Drive Czar on how autonomous
PSA/Peugeot-Citroën had a strong first half, but CEO Carlos Tavares is convinced that the turnaround of the once-sputtering automaker is still accelerating.
Volkswagen Group are working on a new business plan, “Strategy 2025”, that will focus on improving the automaker’s profitably rather than on volume growth,
U.S. light-vehicle sales rose in October, buoyed by strong truck demand, bigger deals, and double-digit gains at Hyundai-Kia, GM, FCA, Ford, Toyota, Nissan and Subaru.
After graduating from business school, Pascal Popis started at Philips in 1992, moving amongst different functions in Sales/Marketing and Management. Today he is Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Europe and the Americas at Lumileds. DVN asked him questions concerning Lumileds’ achievements and strategy. Here’s what he had to say:
DVN: What are the main changes you expect in the next years in automotive lighting technologies and what are the challenges for Lumileds?
Pascal Popis: As LED adoption is now spreading fast across the high-volume mainstream market segments, simple and cost effective engineering solutions are needed, which have to be rolled out fast and scaled up in high volume across multiple OEM platforms. Challenge here for Lumileds is to come up specifically with an attractive range of cost-effective light source propositions which answer this need.
As the full market transition to LED will not happen overnight but progressively over at least another decade, it will also still require product optimisation and value engineering of conventional lamp technology. The new higher performance halogen types H18 and H19 are nice examples of how conventional lamp technology can still accommodate the headlighting application needs of the migration toward LED.
After Stuttgart, Paris, Rochester, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Seoul, the 12th DVN Workshop will take place for the first time in New Delhi, India, close to the New Delhi 2016 Auto Expo,
A report on the vehicle lighting market published by MarketsandMarkets projects that the global automotive lighting market will grow at a CAGR of 8% from 2015 to 2020,
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