Tier 2’s Endless Innovations
Without tier-2 innovation, tier-1 and automaker innovation would quickly stop dead. A month ago, I wrote an editorial emphasising the role of tier-2 lighting suppliers in the chain of innovation,…
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20-21 June: DVN Lighting Workshop Back after a 9 Month Absence
Nine months have passed without a lighting workshop, after the cancellation of the workshop in Paris early this year. After the difficult time caused by Covid, the travel restrictions making…
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DVN Events: Coming Soon Around the World
Three major DVN events are coming soon, on three continents: the US DVN Workshop (20-21 June in Rochester, Michigan); the DVN Think Tank Seminar (4-5 July in Stuttgart, Germany), and…
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New Audi Lighting is New Best of Best
Audi hosted a special event in Ingolstadt to introduce their new A8 with a focus on the lighting system. All of us attending enjoyed this real, live event. It was…
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Regulation Lags Tech Progress, but Encouraging Signs From Geneva
This week we publish a report from GTB, on the recent GRE meeting held as a hybrid session in Geneva. As you will read, it was a fruitful GRE session…
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Tier-2s Pave the Way for Lighting Innovation
Welcome to your weekly DVNewsletter! This week, we bring you an interview with Dow’s global mobility and transport marketing director. Read it and see how deeply a tier-2 supplier—a material…
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Our Automotive Field is Changing
At ISAL last month, former Audi lighting chief Wolfgang Huhn gave a terrific keynote describing his vision on lighting, and explaining how the market and the technologies are changing. Among…
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Spectacular HiPhi X Lighting
Recently DVN had the opportunity to drive the fully electric Chinese HiPhiX car with a spectacular lighting system made by Hasco Vision. The HiPhi X is somewhere between an SUV,…
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Innovation, Team Spirit at AMLS
By Gerd Bahnmueller, DVN Advisor
It was a wonderful sunny spring day when I drove to Regensburg to visit and interview the AMLS people—that’s AMS Osram’s vehicle lighting team. AMLS became an independent entity under…
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What Now for ADB: Mandatory? Obstructed?
At ISAL last week, there was a very interesting panel discussion led by Audi’s Michael Hamm about the new ADB regulation and test protocol in the United States. This discussion…
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