Editorial

DVN was invited to join other international media representatives in Munich last week for Audi’s press preview of their new Audi A5 model lineup, which replaces the A4/A5 after that…

Sustainability and CO2 footprint reduction are major topics throughout industry and society, and they aren’t going away. Younger generations, urgently active on these matters, widely see older generations as having…

I spent 10 days in Chine with part of the DVN team, to visit DVN members and take in some Chinese exhibitions. I signed a partnership last year with Enmore,…

Three weeks ago, I visited Audi’s R&D centre in Ingolstadt to try out the new Q6 e-tron and took time to discuss technology with Stephen Berlitz and Michael Kruppa’s team.…

During the last 2 weeks, I travelled in the States. It was a great pleasure to meet the local lighting community, first in Charlotte for the GTB biannual session, and…

As you read this, Michael Hamm, Daniel Stern, Geoffrey Lebrun, and I are amidst the lighting community for the 2-day US DVN Workshop event near Detroit. More than 400 people…

Lighting developers’ work is at the centre of a frenetic confluence of safety, design, and innovation. Lighting is clearly and increasingly crucial to every vehicle’s identity, and all automakers and…

Two weeks ago, just after the GRE 90th session meetings, Wolfgang Huhn wrote an editorial summarising two informal documents from FIA about glare (GRE 90-20 and GRE 90-40). We received…

At DVN we tend to focus primarily on innovations in light sources, semiconductors, and optical technique. But there’s constant innovation in every part of the vehicle lighting value chain, all…