Editorial – Lighting

Around ten years ago, Renault were an innovative company at the level of the Premium OEMs. Their lighting equipment was a benchmark, with HID headlamps and LED rear lamps on…

Recently Jean-Paul Charret met with Michael Flannagan and John Bullough, two of North America’s greatest experts in automotive lighting. Their analyses and views of the prospects for current and future…

The first LED headlamp was installed in the Lexus LS600hL only 6 years ago. That headlamp with its LED low beam was an enormous breakthrough, a really solid start even…

Lighting technologies are developing very fast with frequent innovations; LEDs, glare-free high beam, matrix beams and laser-based headlamps—faster and faster the list grows longer. We all see and agree the…

American vehicle lighting regulations are a topic much discussed in our community. Most of the world hews in one way or another to the UN regulations and does not formally…

I am very privileged, I must admit, in my job. After having been given to drive the best cars equipped with their latest cutting edge lighting technologies—A7, CLS, E Class,…

Organic Light Emitting Diodes—OLEDs—are beginning to show up on the radar as a viable technology for automotive lighting. For now they’re mostly confined to concept cars, but they’re sure to…

Following my visits to lighting facilities in Korea, last week I went to Japan to check in with Koito and Nichia. Both companies impressed me. At Koito I saw many…

After interesting talks I had at the Shanghai DVN workshop with Korean companies, I decided to visit them in order to better know the Korean market. I was in Seoul…