Lighting News

The Supervisory Board and the management of the Docter Optics Group are setting the course for the future. Effective March 1, 2021, Martin Enenkel (52) will be appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Group. After his apprenticeship as an electrician and the completion of his engineering studies in optoelectronics at Aalen University of Applied…

The Toyota Yaris is “The Car of the Year 2021”. It was Europe’s number1 seller in January 2021 with a volume of 18,000.The award ceremony took place in Geneva on Monday, March 1, 2021 and was streamed live on the website of the Geneva International Motor Show, whose team hosted the ceremony for the tenth…

Hyundai Mobis have a new kind of LED that’s able to be bent as a thin film. The design allows a single LED to serve as both a stop lamp and a tail lamp, requiring only 5.5mm thickness for the LED surface. The new tail lamp is called HLED. The system can generate a bright…

The number of vehicles earning the U.S. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s highest “Top Safety Pick +” grade more than doubled for 2021 models, even as the criteria grew stricter. 49 vehicles received the top mark this year, compared with 23 vehicles in 2020.  Another 41 vehicles earned the second-best Top Safety Pick designation, bringing…

The Lamp Controller is a new addition to Dajac’s Osprey line of lighting alignment and validation systems. Based on Dajac’s IntelliAim software, the new Osprey Lamp Controller focuses on controlling vehicle lighting. The tasks pane presents a palette of available tasks that can be arbitrarily added and arranged in the script pane for optimum control.…

ZKW searched for startups offering innovative solutions in the areas of sensors and auxiliary lamps in their Drive Light & Sight Challenge. 74 applications submitted from 25 countries were assessed by the ZKW jury, and a young company called Flite have been chosen as a winner for their new surface finishing method for headlamp lenses,…

The relaunch of Maybach as a hyperluxury Mercedes sub-brand has been aided and abetted by top-specification lighting, inside and out. The Maybach GLS 600, for example, is a luxury variant of the Mercedes GLS, and it’s got fancy lights throughout. When the owner approaches the vehicle in the dark, they are greeted by a projection…

Ceres Holographics has been awarded a €1.4 million European Commission Horizon 2020 grant to accelerate the commercialisation of its holographic technology. The company is an innovative developer of thin-film Holographic Optical Elements (HOEs) for next-generation transparent display (TD) and augmented reality heads-up-display (AR-HUD).The grant will allow the company to drive the development of replication and production technology to meet…