Focusing on the Japanese Market
DVN is back in Tokyo this 11-12 June for our lighting workshop. The first Toyko workshop was 13 years ago in 2012; this will be the fifth. I was travelling…
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Paul Henri Matha
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Japan’s Vehicle Lighting Market
In order to prepare for the upcoming DVN Tokyo event, I took time to analyse in detail the Japanese automotive market. For that I used the data from JAMA (Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association), JADA (Japan Automobile Dealer association) and Marklines database. This in-depth is aimed at those who are not experts on the Japanese market. …
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Sumitomo Starts Sales of Chem-Recycled PMMA to Big Companies
On 6 March 2025, Sumitomo Chemical announced they will start selling their polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA, acrylic), which is made from methyl methacrylate (MMA) monomers produced through chemical recycling. South Korea’s LG Display and Japan’s Nissan Motor have decided to use this chemically-recycled material in their products. Sumitomo will accelerate the implementation of chemical recycling in…
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GRE Glare Prevention Task Force (TF-GP)
By Eric Blusseau, DVN regulation senior advisor During GRE 90, in April 2024, the expert of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) presented the results of their 2024 European consumer…
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DVN Field Trip: CoSys PICS-L Lab
P.H. Matha and J.P. Ravier from DVN visited the PICS-L laboratory in Marne la Vallée near Paris. Located in the Université Gustave Eiffel, a university with 17,000 students and 3,000 people supervising teaching and research. The PICS-L lab is one of the nine laboratories of the CoSys department (Components and Systems). This department was previously…
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The New Mercedes CLA
Mercedes-Benz have revealed their new CLA’s specifications and exterior design. it debuts a dramatic new look for forthcoming Mercedes models, with special emphasis on the iconic three-pointed star logo. It features in the CLA’s headlamps and brake lights, and the EV also gets a flush front grilleboard with 142 backlit stars surrounding the emblem, which…
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Mercedes AD-S Lamp: Turquoise Light in Germany
On 5 March, Mercedes-Benz got approval for their AD-S lamp with testing purposes through July 2028.Germany once again underscores its pioneering role in the field of automated driving, having been first to permit conditionally automated (SAE Level 3) driving. Mercedes-Benz seized this opportunity and received the world’s first internationally-valid type approval for conditionally automated driving…
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Valeo EvenLED Wins Road Safety Innovation Award
Valeo have received a 2025 Innovation Award in the Infrastructure and Vehicle Improvement category from Sécurité Routière—the French national road safety authority—for their innovative EvenLED technology used in the design of vehicle front and rear signalling systems.Valeo Light Division CEO Maurizio Martinelli says, “We are extremely honoured by this award that recognizes our effort to…
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Lighting Analysis: Tesla Y ‘Juniper’
By Paul-Henri Matha I took time some weeks ago to dig into the new Tesla Y with a lot of new lighting features. During my trip to Shenzhen I stopped…
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Autonomous Driving and V2X communication
I was last week in Shenzhen, Anne Hometown (Anne is our DVN representative in China. To visit some DVN members (and possible members) to exchange about lighting, automotive market and…
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