Hector Fratty

AMS Osram have launched the third generation of their Oslon® Compact PL family of automotive LEDs. They’re 8 per cent brighter than the previous second generation. The new Oslon Compact PL produces 440 lumens in single-chip form, up from 405 before; this gives setmakers the option of providing greater light output with the same number…

The Volkswagen Group are giving their brands, including Audi and Škoda, more independence on cost savings and efficiencies to improve returns and make the automaker more nimble in the EV revolution. The group have set ‘performance programs’ for each brand, allocating capital and setting specific return-on-sales goals, but responsibility is devolving to the brands as to…

Car lamps are no longer limited to providing see-and-be-seen lighting; now they also can provide interaction and display a vehicle’s ‘personality’. The new high-end EV brand IM Motor has launched what they’re calling an ‘intelligent lamp language system’. Their L7 model has DLP digital projection headlamps with a projection resolution of 2.6 Mpx. They can…

Cadillac’s electric Escalade IQ will be launched on 9 August. In the meantime, GM have dropped a teaser photo of the new SUV’s front end.The image is deliberately shadowy, but shows its lighting signature; we see the familial twin vertical light pillars as bookends to a new wings-of-light grilleboard display, and an illuminated Cadillac crest…