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TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. will open a new technical center in Anting, China in 2013. The facility will handle r&d, engineering design and application as well as testing and
Autoliv report first-quarter pretax earnings slightly higher than forecast. The supplier announced a pretax profit of $240m, a year-on-year rise from $179m in 2010 and higher
China’s car market could reach annual sales of 20 million to 30 million vehicles over the next five to 10 years, Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche said at the Shanghai auto show.
Fiat, Ford, and Renult posted large declines in European new car sales in March, while VW benefited from the sales rebound in their German home market.
Profits for Italian carmaker Fiat grew 9% in the first quarter of 2011, powered by the company’s Ferrari brand and demand in Brazil. Earnings before interest, tax and one-time items,
It’s still boom time in China not only for vehicle makers but western component suppliers as well. TRW believe their sales in the country will more than double in two years,
I already interviewed you beginning of 2010. Since, in a little more than 1 year, LED technologies and Adaptive Lighting Systems have arrived and brought big innovations.
In this nice ZKW R&D center at Wieselburg, I would like to ask you questions in relation with this change.
DVN: My first question is about the ZKW company. How was 2010 year concerning sales and financial result?
Jürgen Antonitsch: We do not communicate on the financial result. About the business, we have a very good activity with sales of €300m from €220m in 2009.
DVN: You were the first to launch Xenon 25W on the Audi A1. I drove this car by night and was impressed by its efficiency. What is your feedback about the development and production few months after the start?
JA: We really started 2 months ago and we have not yet the real figures. We will have more information by the end of the second quarter. We also are looking forward for the arrival of the D5 bulb.
DVN: How do you see the trend of this light source? Do you see in the future a total integration or as 35W?
JA: The great advantage of the Xenon 25W is electronic integration. I am not sure this bulb will partly substitute Xenon 35W.
DVN: On adaptive Lighting Systems you told me last year that ZKW have close relationships to all well-known camera suppliers in the automotive industry. “Image processing is their core competence; we focus on developing the light control algorithms”. Did you change this strategy?
JA: No change of strategy. We intensify relation with camera suppliers. We want to understand how it works. ECU between camera and the headlamp has to be our job and we have people working on it.
DVN: About LED lights, we have not seen yet in production a ZKW headlamp. But the BMW 6 Series seen at Paris October 2010 shows a very interesting concept.
Could you summarize this concept?
Visteon’s Rainer Neumann explained at SAE 2011 worldwide congress that HID 25w is a reality with production starting in less than one year at a worldwide level.
At SAE 2011 world congress held last week, Josef Schug from Philips presented a very interesting lecture.
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