VW have issued a recall for 16,000 vehicles manufactured in the last 12 months, according to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Chinese automaker Chery Automobile Co are eager to speed up their global network expansion after stabilizing their foothold in the domestic market.
In the three months ending June 30, Denso’s global sales dropped 40% to $6bn, and the firm posted an operating loss of $158m from an operating profit of $772.4m a year earlier.
Continental AG have begun construction of a new electronics plant in Shanghai, to begin production in mid-2010.
TRW have launched a small, lightweight advanced camera and multi-sensor package with the processing power needed to support a variety of functions. The camera/sensor unit is positioned in the region of the rearview mirror mount looking outward through the windshield.
Audi expect their second plant in northeast China to start operation in September, which will produce the A4 and Q5 to meet fast-growing demand for premium cars in the country, state media reported today.
Mazda North American Operations’ newly appointed design director is leveraging his experience in Germany to bring “extra refinement and level of execution” to the Japanese automaker’s American-market range.
Understanding and comparing LED performance seems a simple task: get the datasheets, compare numbers for light output, efficacy and lumen maintenance, and make a decision.
The Leaf, to be built in Japan and in Smyrna, Tennessee, USA, goes on sale in late 2010.
“People search better safety and comfort. Xenon is a great lever to improve them but the price paid by the user is still too high”
Hans Schwabe, CEO of Osram’s Speciality Lighting, which is a combination of Automotive Lighting and Display/Optic, studied electrotechnics and business administration at Munich university. He started at corporate headquarters of Siemens in Munich 1987, in the Strategic Planning Department. In 1991 he took over the product management of automotive light sources for headlights (Halogen, Xenon). In 1998 he moved to the BU Display/Optic keeping various senior management positions within R&D, Application Engineering and Sales & Marketing. In 2002 he was nominated as Managing Director for OSRAM Taiwan until 2005. In 2005 he resumed responsibility as CEO of Display/Optic. After merging Display/Optic and Automotive Lighting into Specialty Lighting in January 2009, he was nominated as CEO of this new business unit.
DVN: Hello, Hans. Thanks for talking with us. In automotive lighting, experts are talking about new technologies but filament bulbs are still very important to the automotive industry despite these fast-moving new technologies. How do you analyze that we still use several filament bulbs developed 50 years ago?
H.S.: Several reasons explain it:
– It is a proven concept, bulbs like H4 or H7 are simple, easy to use, and cost-efficient. With less than €1, we have a bulb with accurate filament position, low and high beam, and efficacies of > 15lm/W.
– Much progress has been made in quality (better production tolerances thanks to new optical measurements with 5-axis adjustment) and in productivity, year after year.
– A consequent extension of product range and performance features is mandatory to keep that position with regard to growing AFS functionalities.
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