The DVN Interior Workshop comes to Köln in just a few days on 25-26 April—that’s next Monday-Tuesday. With just four days to go, we’ll summarize here why you should attend, and present the full docket. The rubric for the Workshop is Experience Interior • Technology for Safety, Comfort, and Fun. The automotive industry is rethinking…
Cipia, specialists in in-car computer vision, announced last December their first purchase order from Technomous, as well as the start of production with Chinese automaker SAIC. Last month, they announced a Chinese automaker will equip their new models with Cipia’s Driver Sense Driver Monitoring Solution (DMS). Cipia was founded back in 2007 as an eyesight…
“Leather done better” is the slogan of ELeather, a company specializing in engineered leather and based in Peterborough, England. They export to more than 50 countries, and have established a sturdy global customer base, providing a better passenger experience to bus operators and automakers. They supply over 200 airlines, and their materials upholster over 12,000…
Covestro says their renewable toluene diisocyanate (TDI) material provides a significant reduction in CO2 emissions from cradle to factory gate. TDI is an important raw material for the production of flexible polyurethane foam used in car seats and a variety of other applications. Covestro manufactures the renewable TDI both in Dormagen, Germany, and in Caojing,…
Volvo Cars, through their Tech Fund venture capital arm, has made a strategic investment in Bcomp, an innovative Swiss firm developing high-performance, lightweight materials based on natural fibers, Bcomp (See DVN Interior 5 November 2020) uses fibers from flax, a plant material that offers significant savings in terms of weight, energy use and emissions versus…
BlackBerry will extend the existing collaboration in China with Marelli, a move that follows previous technology collaborations focused on digital cluster developments in 2016 and 2018. Marelli has chosen the BlackBerry QNX Neutrino RTOS and BlackBerry QNX Hypervisor to power the Cockpit Domain Controller, an in-vehicle infotainment and instrument cluster system. BlackBerry and Marelli began…
The arrival of the new zero-emissions Smart #1 hatchback marks the resurrection of the once pioneering Smart company as an electric-only brand built in China. It is a new joint venture between Mercedes-Benz, who designed the car; and Geely, who handled most of the engineering work. The #1, announced for the end of this year,…
Audi is giving a glimpse of their premium future with three electric car concepts. Following the Skysphere (DVN Interior 19 August 2021) and the Grandsphere (DVN Interior 9 September 2021) concept, the Urbansphere concept will be unveiled in a few days, but teaser images have been floated. Audi says the car speakes to the needs…
Next year will be the 70th anniversary of Hermann Schnell having invented polycarbonate at Bayer (now Covestro) in Germany. One might think every possible variant of polycarbonate (PC) has been developed and achieved, but luckily for lighting designers, Covestro continues innovating and tuning their materials to create new lighting effects when coupled with LEDs. Their…
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