During a presentation at the Intelligent Automotive Lighting congress, Frost & Sullivan’s Michael Minich presented an industry research synthesis done in 2008 from two different end user studies.
Alexander Von Hoffmann received a Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering in 1998 from Darmstadt University of Technology and the Dr.-Ing. degree in 2003 from the Ilmenau University of Technology with Prof. Gall as doctoral adviser.
In 1998 he started to work in Volkswagen’s Lighting Development department. Since 2006 he is Professor for mechatronics at University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg.
He is the technical advisor of Intelligent Automotive Lighting congress held last week in Frunkfort.
Driving Vision News: What do you retain from your 8 years’ work for VW in lighting?
A.Von Hoffmann: I had the chance to learn a lot about automotive lighting and had opportunity to contribute to the serial development of important innovations like AFS, LED Daytime Running Lamp and the introduction of new development processes.
Toyota Motor on Tuesday named founding family member Akio Toyoda as its new president, replacing Katsuaki Watanabe. He was previously an executive vice-president.
Auto production in Japan could sink to a 32-year low of 8.83 million vehi¬cles in 2009 from an estimated 11.5 million last year, says The Nikkei, citing a report by JPMorgan Securities Japan Co.
European new passenger- car registrations slumped to a 15-year low in 2008 as weak consumer confidence ate into demand for new cars amid the world-wide financial crisis.
Dongfeng, a joint venture between the state owned Dongfeng Motor Group Company and a Chinese subsidiary of Nissan Motors has said they want to sell 1.4 million automobiles in 2009.
The 10th annual Strategies in Light business-oriented conference and exhibition on high-brightness LEDs takes place on February 18-20, 2009 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.
Fiat and Chrysler confirmed last week that the Italian company intends to acquire an initial 35% stake in the U.S. carmaker.
The deal will give Fiat the scale they need to survive,
The poor economic environment is affecting relationships between suppliers and vehicle manufacturers.
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