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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…)

Porsche Reveals Mission X Concept for 75th Anniversary

Porsche celebrates their 75th anniversary with the unveiling of the Mission X concept, an electric-powered supercar that previews a potential successor model to the plug-in hybrid 918 Spyder. The 2-seater is presented as a “lightweight super sports car” with a dedicated electric powertrain, which Porsche indicates could deliver nearly 1,500 hp. The automaker says the…

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Surfacing

By Athanassios Tubidis Using clay in different forms is a practice lost in time (beyond 14,000 BCE), while over the centuries its obvious association with ceramics became identitary. Evidently, there is a deeper aspect to it, a very gratifying one. The primary and somewhat magic idiom of its viscous and tactile nature, to easily take…

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Air taxi eVTOLs at Paris Air Show—Aerial Mobility?

The Paris Air Show broke all records for attendance (400 000), deals ($55 billion) but the main stars of the 2023 biannual event were also the next-generation electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) air taxicabs making their first appearance. Full-sized and fully-equipped eVTOLs by Archer and Volocopter attracted the most, and it is scheduled to provide the world’s first air taxi services during the Paris…

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Opel Redesigns Logo for EV Era

Opel, part of Stellantis, has redesigned their lightning bolt logo for the electric era. The logo keeps the familiar lightning bolt as the central element, but the symbol has been given a sharpened design that Opel says gives it a progressive and modern look. See video. It will continue to form a central element of…

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Rivian Buys Iternio for Open EV Ecosystem

Rivian, based in Irvine, California, has announced the acquisition of Swedish mapping company Iternio, developer of the ‘A Better Routeplanner’ (ABRP) app. ABRP facilitates EV trip planning and Iternio says it has a strong community of EV drivers in both North America and Europe. ABRP gives EV drivers the ability to plan and compare routes and charging stop options.…

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Grewus Interactive Haptics Conference

On June 14 and 15, the interactive Haptics Conference took place at the historic Gastwerk Design Hotel in Hamburg. It was organized and hosted by Hamburg-based electronics maker Grewus. The purposes of the conference were: Bringing HMI-relevant disciplines together: what needs to be considered when integrating haptics into an application? How do design, the UI,…

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Volkswagen’s 3-Row ID.Buzz E-Van

Volkswagen’s 3-row ID.Buzz electric van will go on sale nationwide in the second half of 2024. The 3-row variant has been developed specifically for North America. It’s on a longer wheelbase than the 2-row European vehicle that debuted in 2022, plus a bigger battery and more horsepower. The vehicle will be built in Hanover, Germany, along…

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Emotion3D, Chuhang, SAT Collaborate on In-Cabin Analysis System

Camera-based in-cabin analysis software specialist Emotion3D (see our previous coverage); AD and ADAS radar technology developer Chuhang Tech, and sleep-onset-prediction startup Sleep Advice Technologies (SAT) have partnered to develop a multi-sensor in-cabin analysis system. With drowsiness and fatigue causing many crashes and near-crashes on roads around the world, the companies are working on creating a…

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