LED outlook: Technology is still too hot to handle; Beating the heat and keeping costs down remains a key issue for light technology.(News)

Automotive News Europe,  July, 2007  

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Byline: Tim Moran

Mass production of headlights that use the next generation of lighting technology - light-emitting diodes, or LEDs - is at least four to six years away, says a top official at an auto lighting company.

David Hulick, Osram Sylvania's global product manager for auxiliary lighting, told a media gathering here last month that the front-end lighting used on the new Lexus LS 600h L and Audi R8 is a technology gesture rather than a demonstration of a technology ready for the mass market.

"I expect these [early models] are going to be hand-produced works of ...

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