Spectacular HiPhi X Lighting
Recently DVN had the opportunity to drive the fully electric Chinese HiPhiX car with a spectacular lighting system made by Hasco Vision. The HiPhi X is somewhere between an SUV,…
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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.
Amazing Lights from Hasco on HH Hiphi X
Chinese startup Human Horizons unveiled their radical concept car in 2020, and production of the Hiphi X started last year at Dongfeng’s plant at Yancheng. The price of the car as tested by DVN: C¥800,000 (€116,000). It has 4-wheel steering and a combined output of 536 hp. Claimed range is up to 550 km with…
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Audi’s Urbansphere Concept for Megacities
Audi say their Urbansphere electric concept was developed around the needs and wants of those living in Chinese megacities. It offers the largest interior space of any Audi ever built and puts a focus on the loungelike attributes and luxury touches that make it a living room on wheels or a mobile office during time spent…
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Matrix Front + 3D Rear Lamps on New DS4
The new DS4 bristles with advanced lighting; its matrix LED headlamps and 3D rear lamps, both from Marelli AL, adorn the car with unique day and night designs. The headlamps each have three modules including a dedicated matrix module and a central rotating one; the front lighting system has five lighting modes to adapt to…
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Lincoln Star concept: Lighting to Set the Stage
The Star is a new concept from Ford’s Lincoln brand—a preview of coming attractions in Lincoln’s future EV model range. The concept is designed to show off how a flexible electrical architecture lets designers create new experiences for customers, using light for staging the vehicle. The design was done by Lincoln’s global design director Kemal Curic…
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ZKW’s Smart Digital Lights for New Range Rover
The ZKW LED headlamps on the new Range Rover are equipped with digital light processing to generate stepless, glare-free high beam that automatically shadows out other road users, and also projects animated images onto the road. The light modules are unusually small, but with the same performance as larger ones—this enables a particularly slim design and…
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AEye Opens Munich Office
Aeye, who supply high-performance lidar components and systems, have opened a new office in Munich, Germany to support current and prospective automotive; mobility; trucking; logistics, and smart infrastructure customers. At the same time, the company also announced their appointment of veteran automotive engineering leader Andreas Prinz (photo) as technical sales director for AEye in Europe.…
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Quanergy, Mirasys Partner for Insights, Analytics
Quanergy Systems, a major provider of lidar sensors, are pursuing a technology integration with open video management system (VMS) provider Mirasys. The integration of Quanergy’s platform with Mirasys’ deep vision data platform will deliver advanced insights and analytics for physical security applications in the government, retail, and gaming industries. By integrating Quanergy’s 3D lidar platform, customers…
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Musk Claims Tesla Will Sell 1.5m+ Cars in ’22
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he might boost vehicle production more than expected this year despite supply-chain bottlenecks and disruptions in China. Musk—who is currently under investigation by at least one national government for making false statements to manipulate stock prices—said Tesla likely will produce more than 1.5 million vehicles in 2022, up some 60…
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Horizon, BYD Officially Announce Cooperation
On 21 April, BYD and Horizon officially announced that they have reached a fixed-point cooperation. BYD will equip some of their cars with Horizon’s high-performance, large-computing Journey 5 autonomous driving chip to create a more competitive integrated solution for traveling and parking, and to achieve high-level automatic driving functions. The equipped BYD models will be…
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