ZKW equips new all-electrical Volvo C40 with high-tech lights

E-Crossover depends on good pixel LED headlights in distinctive design

WIESELBURG, Austria, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The new Volvo C40 relies on LED lights technological innovation from Wieselburg-centered automotive expert ZKW. The headlight of the all-electric electric crossover has a pixel module with 84 independently controllable LEDs. The substantial-tech light-weight illuminates the road significantly efficiently, adapts dynamically to website traffic and avoids stunning other street end users. A front camera and radar permanently scan the highway, letting up to five motor vehicles to be blanked simultaneously. The design and style of the high-high quality pixel LED light-weight is unique: the hammer-formed light-weight arc sets visual accents that are unique for Volvo. “For Volvo, we build exclusive headlight layouts that impress with their modern engineering and unforgettable physical appearance and enhance highway safety,” points out Dr. Wilhelm Steger, CEO of the ZKW Team.

Sensible LED pixel mild
The headlight in the new C40 combines daytime jogging mild, place light and flip sign gentle in a specifically compact variety. An adaptive lights method with digital camera and radar sensor makes sure a superior stage of street safety by optimally illuminating the road without dazzling oncoming website traffic. This is reached by separately controllable LEDs blended in the pixel module. A entrance camera and the radar eye detect oncoming automobiles or cars in front and activate or deactivate the LED light in the headlamp’s pixel module by means of the management device. Inspite of the compact dimensions of the front headlamp, the method achieves a superior mild output. The unique LED light was designed in Wieselburg, in which the headlight is also produced. The pixel module electronics occur from the ZKW electronics plant in Wiener Neustadt.

Super-flat projection modules
The effective gentle output of the premium headlamp is realized by the LED pixel module in mixture with the revolutionary ForTIR elements. The so-called gentle finger ForTIR things use the apron to undertaking section of the low beam onto the highway. These are significantly flat projection modules that are just 13 millimeters large and also serve as design and style elements in the major headlights. The front headlamp’s gentle design, standard of Volvo, has the characteristic “Thor’s Hammer” form, in which distinctive interest was paid out to homogeneity. This structure factor is fashioned by means of the light guides and thick-wall optics in front of it, and unmistakably signifies the C40 as a Volvo. “The combination of 84-LED pixel module, light finger ForTIR* factors and Thorhammer style is distinctive to Volvo,” Steger explains. ZKW equips both equally the Volvo C40 and XC40 products with quality LED headlights, utilizing the same headlight module as a basis.

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* gentle finger ForTIR = Innovative, incredibly compact layout-pushed optical ingredient for driving mild operate as a projection procedure in combination with thoroughly reflective key optics as a combined component. 

About ZKW
The ZKW Group is the expert for innovative premium lighting units and electronics. As a process supplier, ZKW is a world associate to the automotive business. The team develops and produces goods based on our motto of “Brilliant Minds, Vivid Lights,” combining shiny minds with fashionable output technologies to develop complicated high quality lights and electronic modules for worldwide automotive brands.
Our top items contain impressive and cost-effective full LED techniques. The ZKW Group has a whole of twelve locations throughout the world, with intelligently networked advancement and production. In 2021, the Group utilized all-around 10,000 workers and produced full revenues of 1.07 billion euros.
In accordance with the corporate vision “Floor-breaking premium lighting and electronic techniques from ZKW for all mobility concepts of the international automotive market”, the company’s main purpose is to create major-high-quality significant-tech goods and to boost the development of ground breaking holistic lights units.
With our discoveries and innovations, the ZKW company group would make cars a lot more fascinating, additional one of a kind, safer, and a lot more power successful.
Our 360 diploma merchandise portfolio involves headlamps and fog lamps, rear lamps, flashers, interior and license plate lamps as perfectly as electronic modules. Significant automotive manufacturers have confidence in their brands to innovative goods from ZKW. We are happy of our prospects like BMW (BMW, Rolls Royce), DAIMLER (MERCEDES-BENZ Cars and Trucks), FORD (Lincoln, Ford), GEELY (Volvo, Polestar, Lynk & Co, Geely), Typical MOTORS (Buick, Chevrolet, Cadillac), Hyundai (Kia), JLR (Jaguar, Land Rover), Stellantis (Opel, Citroen), RENAULT/NISSAN (Infiniti, Alpine), VGTT (Volvo Trucks, MACK) and VW (Audi, Porsche, Skoda, Lamborghini, Male, VW, Seat).
With clever lighting methods and ground breaking styling, ZKW is shaping the search and character of cars globally.

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ZKW equips new all-electrical Volvo C40 with high-tech lights

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