DVN Meets CASIC Director, Xie Dongming
A year has now passed since I was honoured to be invited to make a short speech at the inauguration of the Chinese Automotive Standards Internationalisation Centre (CASIC) on 21…
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Xie Dongming: “CASIC Provides a Platform in Geneva to Help Resolving Barriers to Innovation”
Although I was first introduced to Xie Dongming at the start of 2021, we have not found an opportunity to arrange a face-to-face meeting due to the pandemic. We have communicated frequently via WeChat and we met virtually via the video link to the DVN Shanghai workshop in 2021. At that workshop, Xie Dongming announced…
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CASIC Formal Opening of its Geneva Office
from Geoff Draper – Senior Regulatory Advisor
A year has now passed since I was honoured to be invited to make a short speech at the inauguration of the Chinese Automotive Standards Internationalisation Centre (CASIC) on 21 June 2021. Due to COVID travel restrictions, the inauguration event was held live at the China Automotive Technology Research Centre (CATARC) headquarters in Tianjin, China,…
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Automotive Industry on its way to the SW-Defined Car –
from Wolfgang Huhn, DVN Senior advisor
The 2022 Ludwigsburg Automotive Electronic Conference was an international event with 650 participants. The AEK is known to bring the high-level persons of the Car- and the Software-World together, and so it was this year. Chairman Ricky Hudi introduced Porsche’s CEO (and as we know now also the new Volkswagen Group CEO) Oliver Blume as…
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HELLA Opens new lighting plant with JV partner BHAP
Beijing Hella BHAP Automotive Lighting, a JV between HELLA and BHAP, a subsidiary of the BAIC Group, has opened a new lighting plant in Changzhou. The production facility is now the third plant of the JV, which was established in 2014. Both partners also maintain another JV for electronic products with a manufacturing site in…
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ZKW expands at its Mexican location
ZKW invests an additional total of over $102 million in production plant in Silao. They are massively expanding their site in Silao, Mexico. The plant, which went into operation in 2016, is now being expanded by 15,700 m2 to a total of 48,700 m2 of production space. At the same time, 830 additional jobs will…
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Valeo Confirms 2022 Guidance
Valeo posted slightly better-than-expected half-year core profit and reiterated its full-year guidance, citing a projected increase in global car output. Valeo’s H1-2022 before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization fell nearly 8% to €1.11 billion for sales at 9.4 billion. “The context has been difficult,” CEO Christophe Perillat told reporters, referring to microchip shortages that have hit the…
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Forvia Misses H1 Profit Target
FORVIA, the supplier created after Faurecia’s’s takeover of HELLA, fell short of half-year operating profit expectations, affected by global chip shortages, the war in Ukraine and lockdowns in China.The group reported an operating profit of €426 million for the first six months of 2022, corresponding to a margin of 3.7 percent. The combined entity sells…
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Cepton Partners with Fabrinet to Deliver Lidar Program
Cepton, a Silicon Valley innovator and leader in high-performance MMT (Micro Motion Technology) lidar solutions, today announced that they have selected Fabrinet, a leading provider of advanced precision optical and electronic manufacturing services, for the production of its Vista®-X90 lidar, which will be deployed in the industry’s largest ADAS lidar series production program. Cepton selected Fabrinet…
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Mobileye and Zeekr OTA Update: New Chapter in ADAS
Extract of Prof. Amnon Shashua communication
“Last week, Mobileye and Zeekr delivered one of the world’s most advanced highway assist packages OTA to tens of thousands of Zeekr 001 EV owners. Having already been equipped with seven 8-megapixel cameras offering 360° surround perception, and two 7-nm EyeQ®5 High Systems-on-Chip, the hardware was already in place to enable a massive feature update,…
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