DVN had the opportunity to interview a dynamic team working to bring better and better vehicle lighting to the world’s roads: Alexander Dijk (VP of commercial automotive); Holger Weinert (EMEA director of business development); Dirk Vanderhaeghen (senior director of strategic marketing); Lars Dabringhausen (product marketing director), and Christian Kalkschmidt (EMEA senior application team manager) at…
Below few innovations presented in the CES report published today BMW i Vision Dee Concept The front, rear panels become displays with emotional content. Lighting are used to be emotional. Peugeot Inception Sets EV Design Direction Grilleboard includes Peugeot’s signature claw shaped DRLs, with single piece of glass incorporating lighting and sensors. A ‘tech bar’…
Together with partners, Hella are researching how headlamps can be made more climate-friendly, and have started NALYSES, a three-year project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The results of the project are to flow into the development of future headlamp generations and to be made usable for other application and…
LG Electronics Vehicle Component Solutions and their Austrian subsidiary ZKW have jointly developed a combined lighting and exterior display system for vehicles. Their Superintegrator concept opens up new design and communication options for vehicle designers and automakers. Among other things, the concept makes it possible to put any lighting design or display message on the…
Mind have a Magic Cube module to realise the matrix integration of signal and illumination through nine optical lenses of 20 × 25 mm, able to provide low beam; high beam; DRL; position light; and ambient lights. It uses Mind’s latest innovative processing technology of “brilliant optical pattern mold processing”. Thickwall parts give the lamp…
The Tokyo Auto Salon started on 13 January.Here is a look at what is going down at Japan’s annual motorhead event.
VW brand is replacing its design chief, Jozef Kaban, with Bentley’s design boss, Andreas Mindt, according to company sources. Mindt’s successor at Bentley will be Tobias Suehlmann, who currently heads exterior design at the VW Group ultraluxury brand, people familiar with the matter said. Suehlmann joined Bentley in October 2021, having previously worked at Bugatti,…
Every automaker (except the one led by scornful denier Elon Musk) considers radar and lidar crucial for effective, safe enhanced automated driving beyond L2 automation. Lidar is transitioning from electromechanical systems to solid-state devices. Despite improvements made in the areas of cost, size, and reliability, there have been unacceptable tradeoffs in range; resolution, and field…
Koito will buy more shares of Cepton. The two companies worked on co-development of automotive lidar in 2018, and are currently promoting the development to launch on the market and mass produce of their midrange lidar. In addition, to facilitate L3 and higher ADAS and AVs, Koito and Cepton are also developing short- and long-range…
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