Philippe Aumont

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Philippe Aumont is a highly experienced executive with almost 40 years in the automotive interior supplier industry. Both engineering & business graduate, completed by many general management programs. He acted as Chief Technology Officer at Faurecia Seating, between 2011 and 2017. Previously he worked for Roth Frères, Johnson Controls and Faurecia, with various position in R&D, Marketing, Strategy, new product development, Open Innovation, start-ups, university, and earlier in JIT, Production, Program Management, Costing, Sales… with permanent assignment in France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany, and frequent travels in the US, Japan, China & India. Philippe is board member at SIA (Society of Automotive Engineers in France), and Ecole Centrale de Nantes (Engineering school). Philippe is passionate about automotive product and business model reshuffling (Autonomy, Connectivity, New Energy, Environment, and Car sharing), Innovation culture, organization, Technology scouting, Start-ups, Occupant-centric Design (Comfort, Perceived Quality, HMI, Cognitive…)

EV Trends at Chengdu Motor Show

The recent Chengdu Motor Show confirmed Chinese e-car manufacturers going into niche markets. Hybrid SUVs, extremely expensive electric supercars, further e-cars for ‘mother and baby’, and electric luxury sports cars together send the message that the market for New Energy Vehicles (NEV) in China keeps growing—and that China’s carmakers are responding to this with new…

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DVN-I Deep Dive: Lighting for HMI, Safety, Perception

The DVN Interior Deep Dive was held at the end of August, to develop ideas and action plans under the theme Interior Lighting and Beyond. As interior lighting is no longer just task lighting as it was for many decades (a single dome lamp, maybe a footwell light or a courtesy light in the lower…

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Autoliv’s Front Center Airbag

When a vehicle is struck on the opposite side of where the occupant is sitting, protection is needed for the occupant sitting on the far side. Autoliv has been researching far-side impacts and associated injuries for over 20 years. In 2020, Euro NCAP, began including far-side crash evaluations in their ratings; Korean and Chinese NCAPs…

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Grammer Console for Human Horizons HiPhi

The HiPhi X is a Chinese premium e-SUV from Human Horizons. It has a console from German supplier Grammer, which helps to create lounge feeling inside the vehicle. This lounge feeling is based on developmental expertise Grammer has gathered over years as an interior supplier for the world’s automakers. The supplier’s automotive-division president Jürgen Gerl…

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Mimik Technology, BlackBerry Collaborate on SDV

Mimik Technology is collaborating with BlackBerry to strengthen their secure scalable platform that aims to monetize every vehicle feature on a function-as-a-service model—software-defined vehicles, SDV—to address automaker demands for ongoing revenue streams after they sell a new vehicle. By combining BlackBerry’s secure, safety-certified, cloud-enabled QNX Neutrino Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) and Mimik’s Hybrid Edge Cloud…

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VW’s Cockpit Reboot

For their latest Passat, Volkswagen has introduced a variety of new digital instruments and a new-generation infotainment system to provide what they call an ‘intuitively operated cockpit landscape’. The MQB (Modularer QuerBaukasten) is the latest evolutionary stage of VW’s modular transverse matrix platform, consisting of advanced technology modules that are integrated with one another to…

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BMW Bends to Backlash, Stops Charging for Heated Seats

BMW has given up—at least for now—charging customers subscription fees for heated seats after a backlash put the automaker in the literal hot seat: consumers worldwide vehemently rejected the idea of paying in perpetuity for the privilege of using hardware built into the car they’d bought. It was roundly condemned as a greedy money-grab—an early…

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