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Renault Chief Operating Officer Carlos Tavares will step down from his post two weeks after publicly saying that he would like to run General Motors
Opel have fully revealed their Monza concept for the Frankfurt Motor Show.
Going to the Frankfurt Motor Show? There’s an app for that! The interactive trade fair guide provides an overview of exhibitors and events,
On behalf of Driving Vision News, industry veteran Jean-Paul Charret met with two of North America’s greatest vehicle lighting experts: John Bullough from the Lighting Research Center at Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Michael Flannagan from the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. Flannagan and Bullough have collaboratively presented excellent lectures at DVN Workshops, and we are pleased to bring you their forecast of what’s to be expected in American lighting systems over the next decade’s time:
| Bullough (left) and Flannagan at the 2013 US DVN Workshop |
– On Halogen light sources
John Bullough : Halogen should go down in terms of take rate to around 50% for new vehicles in the next 10 years in North America, but a substantial amount should remain due to simplicity and low cost.
Michael Flannagan : My estimate is around 40% of headlamps will still be halogen in 2023 because LED will grow very quickly, especially with ADB types of functionality which have great potential.
– On HID light sources
J.B.: There is still some negative image for HID in the USA. HID probably will not grow much over where it is today, and probably will start decreasing to nearly zero by 2020. 25W doesn ‘ t really seem to be an interesting option in the USA as leveling and cleaning systems are not mandatory.
M.F.: In ten years, the new-car take rate for HID will probably be 0%
DVN has published numerous articles on research findings by the US Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and their affiliate the Highway Loss Data Institute, on the real
Audi are again reviving an old American trick to give their updated A8, due out at the Frankfurt show, sequential turn signal lights, front and rear. Each headlight has 18
The Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology (DIO) is holding its bi-annual research congress on 16–18 September in Dearborn, near Detroit. Autonomous cars, driver distraction,
This first teaser image is the only photograph of the new car to have been released by the company. It shows that the new design will retain Lexus’s large front grille,
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