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Hector Fratty

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Hector Fratty, DrivingVisionNews President and Founder has been for his entire career in automotive lighting. From 1995 to 2006, he was Valeo Lighting Systems’ chief of R&D, managing a staff of 650 engineers and technicians and a budget of over €70m. He holds 20 patents worldwide. In 2008, after 2 years’ consultancy, he initiated the launch of Driving Vision News, a news pipeline dedicated to keeping the lighting and driver assistance community informed of the latest progress and development in the industry. Hector Fratty presides over the highly‐regarded biennial VISION Congress international automotive lighting and driver assistance symposium. Hector Fratty is also a member of the ISAL steering committees.

Hella to Build New Headquarters at Lippstadt

Hella will construct an attractive, sustainable, and representative new building complex on the western area of the current headquarters on Rixbecker Straße. In the future, all development and administrative functions of the Lippstadt location will work there in one place.Hella CEO Michel Favre says, “Our historic company headquarters undoubtedly has tradition. Nevertheless, its infrastructure, buildings…

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Made In USA: Lumileds Matrix Integrated Lighting Solutions

Lumileds now are producing their Luxeon Matrix products and custom integrated LED solutions for the lighting industry, in the United States. This allows Lumileds to provide improved support for North American customers; reduce transport costs, time, and environmental impacts; eliminate tariffs, and simplify the supply chain.The company’s approach involves combining Luxeon LEDs with proprietary advanced…

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ams OSRAM’s New Eviyos® 2.0: A Front Row Seat View

Dr. Michael Hamm, DVNOn 19 July, 2023 ams OSRAM announced their Eviyos® 2.0. Right in that moment, I was able to visit the ams OSRAM fab in Regensburg, to have a look at the front-end production and testing, and make an in-depth interview with Wolfgang Lex, ams OSRAM’s Automotive Senior VP.The Eviyos® 2.0 has 25,600…

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Active Digital OLED Signature in Audi Q6 e-tron

With up to eight digital light signatures for the headlights and rear lights, drivers can personalise their Audi Q6 e-tron by choosing a signature in one of two ways. Six additional signatures with a coming home/leaving home lighting scenario and the corresponding digital light signature are available through additional option packages.For the first time, customers can…

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ams OSRAM’s New Osire Intelligent RGB LEDs

ams OSRAM have introduced new technology which greatly simplifies the implementation of dynamic, colour- and intensity-changing arrays of hundreds of RGB LEDs in car interior lighting.The new Osire® E3731i RGB LED features a digital core that enables low-latency communication over a standard serial bus interface with any microcontroller. ams OSRAM has also developed a new…

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New Škoda Scala and Kamiq Headlamps: Design details

Ahead of the digital world premiere of refreshed Scala and Kamiq models, Škoda are releasing design sketches that showcase the updated front end and headlamps. Four years on from their initial production launch, Škoda are introducing upgrades that incorporate technical enhancements and a fresh appearance.The reshaped Scala headlamps now extend to the grille, and they…

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ZF finds New Automakers Hot For New Tech

Holger Klein, CEO of ZF Friedrichshafen, says young automotive brands such as Nio, Xpeng, Lucid, and Tesla are pushing ZF in a different way than traditional automakers: “They have a different expectation on speed; speed is king”.The new brands want ZF’s newest technologies as quickly as possible, even if some bugs haven’t been eliminated in…

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