Keynote & Session 1 (Part 1) • DVN Detroit Workshop 2024

KEYNOTE & SESSION 1 (PART 1) • DESIGN & SAFETY
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KEYNOTE & SESSION 1 (PART 1) • DESIGN & SAFETY
By Paul-Henri Matha, DVN COO & Lighting General Editor I took time to carefully read the document from FIA about glare (GRE-20) to understand the feedback and concerns from respondents, and especially the two detailed surveys done by ADAC (Germany) and ANWB (Netherlands). The survey has its good points, to be sure. Over 60 per…
With their Concept Skytop design study, the BMW Group brought an elegant, unique vehicle to this year’s Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, the annual beauty contest for historic cars and motorcycles held on the shores of Lake Como. BMW Group design chief Adrian van Hooydonk says the car is a “truly unique and exotic design, in…
Lighting is crucial to Lancia’s new style signature, built around a reinterpretation of Lancia’s historic grille. It has been modernized and this grille consists of 3 LED lines, which give an iconic look to the new Upsilon and clearly identify it as a Lancia from far away. The ‘Chalice’-design lamps provide the front position light…
DVN recently visited Chinese lighting supplier Liaowang at their Shanghai Jiading R&D office and Chongqing factory. Liaowang, with their active CEO Gu Dan, is well known to the DVN community as the maker of the 10,000-LED display for the Avatr car, which has 10,500 LEDs in the new generation. Both of these MDL (micro display…
The Rivian R1S – R1T’s first facelift-and-refresh has been revealed, with significant changes in the lighting system. The front full-width light bar is now both slimmer and brighter, and contains RGB LEDs so it can serve as a battery state-of-charge indicator. This is done by selectively illuminating the bar in green 10-per-cent increments. Rivian Chief…
Audi have picked Geoffrey Bouquot as their board manager in charge of software-defined vehicles, a new role underlining the growing importance of digital architecture in the industry. Audi say Bouquot will join the team as head of innovation and software-defined vehicles, leading the company’s transition to a software-centered organization. Manfred Doess, Audi’s supervisory board chair,…
By Shammika Wickramasinghe The Electrify Expo festival returned for its third year on 31 May – 2 June at Long Beach, California. A record number of EV manufacturers showed their stuff, including Hyundai, Kia, Tesla, Toyota, Volvo, Lexus, Ford, Rivian, Fisker, Kawasaki, Pebble, Living Vehicle, Motorrad, Luna Cycles and more. The event is North America’s…
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