Editorial

In this, your first DVN-Lidar Newsletter of 2025, you will find a special report on Xpeng’s intelligent driving and sensing strategy. Up to now, Xpeng—like most Chinese NEV makers—has used…

Mobileye will shut down their FMCW lidar development unit by year’s end, lurching around 100 employees. It’s because the company now considers FMCW lidar ‘less essential’ for achieving L3 eyes-off…

The USA is leading the global lidar business, but the US automotive lidar companies—Cepton, Luminar, AEye, and Aeva—are lagging behind strong competitors like Hesai, Robosense, and Valeo. Some of the…

Here you see the Aito M7, a car from Huawei and Seres, equipped with a lidar on the roof. All Aito models have Huawei lidar. Is Lidar growth in China…

Low-cost lidars are soon to arrive. Robosense announced their new MX lidar platform will enter mass production in mid-2025 with a price of about USD $200. MX has an adjustable…