Editorial

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…

The Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) is one of the world’s largest non-profit consumer organizations, with over 80 million members across 242 clubs in 147 countries. FIA is huge and…

We have just released our detailed Beijing Autoshow report about the new vehicles presented last week. This event was the biggest event of 2024 for our automotive industry, with all…

Lighting is indubitably a key styling element. Most automakers at the Beijing auto show presented new vehicles with lit logos, grilles, and bumpers. Opel, Mercedes, Audi (in China particularly), Nissan,…