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Tesla CEO Elon Musk admits his company will lose money on each Cybertruck they build over the next year and a half; it will take at least another 18 months to push production of the Cybertruck to an annual rate of 250,000 units, he says, and the ramp-up of the much-delayed vehicle will face significant…
Volvo Cars’ new 22,000-m2 facility is dedicated to software-defined vehicle development with over-the-air (OTA) software updates. The test facility will initially employ around 100 people, expected to grow to 300 once the testing centre is running at full capacity. Eventually, the site will house around 500 testing rigs and digital test environments, up from almost…
from Dr. Wolfgang Huhn, DVN Senior AdvisorLumileds CTO Oleg Shchekin and VP of Operations Sunil Thomas, along with VP Marketing Jason Posselt and Technical Directors Brendan Moran and Lars Dabringhausen, gave DVN a presentation and window tour of their San Jose facility.The presentation showed that digital lighting is coming up everywhere. Small light sources with…
By Paul-Henri Matha, DVN COOLuxit group was formed in January 2022, after a five-year period of company acquisitions. Core elements are Myotek, the tier-1 arm of the company, which manufactures lighting for vehicle makers all over the world; and Sealink, the tier-2 arm, which manufactures components and subassemblies for all of the major tier-1 lighting…
Marelli’s new high-resolution ‘three-eye’ headlamps for the top version of the VW Touareg use the supplier’s novel h-Digi® microLED platform module. The three-eye style desired by VW was accomplished by the interaction of three modules: h-Digi® microLED, a 16-segment matrix standard module, and a bending light module.Marelli h-Digi® microLED module with ams OSRAM’s Eviyos® 2.0…
Hella have just launched the first production headlamp—optional on the Porsche Cayenne—featuring their high-definition solid-state lighting matrix technology. It is a revolution in LED matrix systems, with over 32,000 individually controllable LED pixels per headlamp.Porsche’s body lighting and vision systems director Robert Haehle and lighting modules and regulations manager Benjamin Hummel gave a presentation on…
ZKW equips the new Volvo EX90 electric SUV with some seriously classy headlamps. They contain a digital HD light module with over 1.3-megapixel resolution, which create a precisely-controllable light image on the road. The high-tech lamp adapts dynamically to the traffic and precisely shadows out other road users. The daytime running lights shine in the…
MicroLED pioneer Aledia, located in Grenoble, France, have appointed Pierre Laboisse as CEO and raised €120m in funds from existing backers, according to state-owned investor BPI France. Laboisse was previously an executive VP at ams OSRAM; he replaces Giorgio Anania, who remains on the company’s board of directors.Aledia were spun off from French research institute…
Vehicle lighting rockstar Rainer Neumann is holding a small German-language one-day lighting conference on 12 December at the Novotel Am Tiergarten Berlin. The conference is about environmentally-friendly concepts and strategies for vehicle lighting.Speakers will be Rainer Neumann himself; Claus Allgeier; Stephan Berlitz; Michael Hamm; Wolfgang Huhn; Jörg Kälble; Dirk Meyer; Ernst-Olaf Rosenhahn; Christian Schmidt; Ralf…
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