6m, respectively, to respond to various types of accidents. In addition, the use of MIMO (Multi Input Multi Output) technology has made it possible to reduce the size of the device. Furthermore, the company is developing a 4D imaging radar capable of detecting up to 350 meters ahead, with a planned SOP of 2028.   Valeo Valeo S.A., which has previously supplied Nissan, has mid-range radar and is considering business development that makes effecti...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/01/16

hieve an FOV of 100° and a vehicle recognition distance of 170m. Tri-cam, the high-performance trinocular camera supplied to Nissan, uses the EyeQ4-High and has an FOV of 28° / 52° / 150°. Figures 1 and 2: ZF Tri-cam (Source: ZF)     The next generation Smart Camera6, announced with SOP in 2025, will use the EyeQ6-Lite with 8 megaspixels, a 120° FOV, and a vehicle recognition distance of 250m.   ZF is also moving toward domain E...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/01/09

t European directives, creating a digitalization concept covering both the project management processes and the production technologies, and identifying and evaluating innovative production technologies.   The company assumes responsibility in the role of integrator from product feasibility to the SOP of series production lines and their optimization.   This includes the management and supervision of project management, planning, mechanical des...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/12/10

Pillar-to-pillar display Figure 23. Continental pillar-to-pillar display (Photo: Copyright © Continental AG) In May 2021, Continental announced that it had received its first major order for a pillar-to-pillar display in a high-volume production vehicle from a global vehicle manufacturer (SOP 2024). Displayed across the entire width of the cockpit, the content is fully immersive and offers drivers and passengers a completely new user ex...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/10/31

nteractions. The car becomes a place of social pleasure, a place where people gather and share a nice experience.   Ideo pleasure   Ideological pleasure refers to people's ideals, such as tastes, aspirations, values and beliefs.   In terms of the products, it corresponds to a certain design philosophy, which meets the values for function over design.   At Polestar, this means that the interfaces are not oversized. The company has even develop...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/09/05

compensate. By incorporating some online cloud computing capabilities into the vehicle/cloud integrated closed-loop system, continuous software upgrades will be possible even after the vehicle is in mass production. Before: Offline Driver assistance software is almost impossible to iterate after SOP. All algorithm optimization and iteration is completed "offline" by the vehicle manufacturer. Now: Offline + online mix Implementing a data cl...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/08/26

oftware add-ons, and introduced services. Classic architecture to SDV (Source: Presentation materials in the booth) New value streams (Source: Presentation materials in booth)   In conventional architectures, because the hardware and functions are integrated, feature development stops at SOP (start of production), but with SDVs, new functions and services continue beyond EOP (end of production) until EOL (end of life).   A further ben...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/07/23

imits on technical feasibility, regulations and savings. The current approach to vehicle development may not be sustainable and a new direction is needed to achieve design standardization and avoid reaching limits. SDVs require a well thought out architecture with unified code and tool-chain.   3. SoP is not the end of the PDP and vehicles evolve in the lifecycle Decoupling of SDVs' software architecture from vehicle model development proc...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/07/03

olution of Honda SENSING (Honda) Next generation elemental technologies (Honda) Luminar Halo LiDAR（Cornes Technologies） Luminar Halo LiDAR (Cornes Technologies) Cornes Technologies Ltd. exhibited Luminar's third generation LiDAR. The next-generation LiDAR, called Halo and aimed for SOP 2027, has achieved revolutionary miniaturization through a variety of technologies. By manufacturing the signal processing chip in-house, the sign...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/07/01

ol or methanol depending on application.   Please find the specifications of each version in the table below. PDU version 45 kW 60 kW 100 kW 120 kW Fuel type gasoline gasoline gasoline diesel Alternative fuel methanol/ethanol methanol/ethanol methanol/ethanol HVO100 Base fuel introduction SOP 2026 SOP 2025 SOP 2025 SOP 2026 Hybrid nominal voltage 400V/800V 400V 400V 800V EM peak continuous 45 kW 60 kW 100 kW 120 kW EM type PMSM PM...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/06/06

ng. See also: Thermal Management System of Tesla Model Y   2) Trends in thermal management methods The thermal management system of each OEM's major sales models can be categorized as shown in the table below, with the liquid cooling system being the mainstream at this time. Region OEM Model SOP Air cooling Liquid cooling Refrigerant Europe Audi Q4 e-tron 21/6 〇 BMW i4 21/11 〇 Citroen Ami 20/9 〇 Fiat 500e 20/12 〇 ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/05/16

eatures is that it combines a 1,550 nm wavelength and a small, high-sensitivity photodetector to achieve a balance between performance and cost.   Developing the market through high performance (Innoviz) InnovizTwo LiDAR   Innoviz's LiDAR will be used in the BMW 7 series with a scheduled SOP (start of production) in 2024 and for Volkswagen (VW) from 2025. The light source is 905 nm and the distance measurement range is 0.3 to 300 m. Th...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/03/22

rted to the European market. Other VW brand model vehicles for the Chinese market are scheduled to rolled off the assembly line in 2024. VW plans to invest a total of CNY 23.1 billion in Hefei. Operation of battery system plant Volkswagen (Anhui) Parts Co., Ltd. announced the start of production (SOP) of high-voltage battery systems on November 21, 2023. Initial production capacity is 150,000 - 180,000 units. The product will be mounted on the ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/02/01

ed to target global sales of 1.2 mn units and raise BEV ratio to 50% by 2030 with starting BEV production in the US in 2027.”   The consulting company furthermore comments on model line forecast change that the Subaru D-SUV EV has been added to the forecast at Toyota’s Georgetown plant and its SOP is scheduled for August 2025.   Light vehicle sales forecast (GlobalData, November 2023) COUNTRY 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Total 87...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/01/12

ure to narrow this gap. This means reviewing the division of labor between an OEM and Tier 1 supplier to jointly build evaluation vehicles and evaluate performance, or to establish a three-way cooperative structure that also involves chipset suppliers. This is an attempt to shorten the lead time to SOP by accelerating the start of parts development and at the same time collaborating in the development of volume production vehicles. It started in ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/12/07

“Super Great”Radar in the center of the bumper, camera below the windshield Next-generation LiDAR (Mobileye) LiDAR recognition image (Mobileye)   Mobileye Vision Technologies Ltd. (Mobileye)'s next-generation LiDAR is currently under development with a planned start of production (SOP) in 2025. Sample A has been shipped and sample B will be shipped in Q2 2024. In addition to distance measurement by ToF (Time-of-Flight) with gene...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/11/10

ompany has a proven track record in LiDAR used at relatively short distances in the field of FA (Factory Automation), and at this event exhibited the F70, a newly developed product for AD and ADAS. The company is currently developing the product with a partner in Korea for commercialization with an SOP target of 2024. The base product is the industrial F70, which has a FOV (field of view) of 90° x 20° and a pixel count of 192 x 56, and it is co...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/10/30

tent such as videos or the infotainment system outside the driver’s view. In October 2022, the Company won major orders worth more than EUR 2 billion from global vehicle manufacturers for its pillar-to-pillar display and OLED displays. This brings awarded lifetime sales for display solutions with SOP after 2022 to over EUR 7 billion. The pillar-to-pillar display blends into the cockpit across the entire vehicle width and uses a continuous displ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/09/14

ganized by © 2023 Informa Markets, a trading division of Informa PLC.) Product highlights of Autoliv's pyrotechnical safety switches on display Switch name PSS-1 PSS-2 PSS-3 PSS-4 PSS-X3 PSS-X2 PSS-6 Switch type Normally closed Normally open Voltage Low voltage 500V 1000V >1000V 500V SOP 2004 2009 2018 2021 - - CE/UKCA approved yes - yes Additional features Can switch up to 400 VDC with low current Weight and package optimized ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/08/24

and long-distance measurement is possible. Conversely, the devices are more expensive than those in the conventional 900nm band. The HRL131 long-range lidar sensor and its roof-mounted type, jointly developed by Continental AG and AEye, Inc. of the U.S., were exhibited for the first time in Japan. SOP (start of production) is scheduled for 2025. Kantum Ushikata Co., Ltd. introduced the LS128S2 from Leishen Intelligent System Co., Ltd. of Shenzhe...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/03/03