Global market review of automotive lighting - forecasts to 2013

Table of Contents

Introduction: Facts and figures at a glance

Chapter 1 Overview of a unique industry

• The industry today
• Significant regulatory pushes
• Market factors: Harmonisation, consumer expectations

Chapter 2 Market review of lighting technologies

• Daytime running lights
• Safety with style
• Tungsten-halogen headlamps - prevalent for the foreseeable future
• New types of halogen bulbs give increased performance, longer life
• Xenon and BiXenon headlamps
• LED headlamps
• Light colour - a tricky balance
• Advanced front lighting
• Interactive AFS
• Beyond AFS: Light-based driver assistance
• Pedestrian-friendly front-lighting devices
• Non-headlamp exterior lighting - techniques and technologies
• Osram Joule - a different approach
• Variable-intensity signal lamps
• Active brake lamps - new idea, new implementations

Chapter 3 OEM suppliers

• Guide' s departure and Visteon' s restructuring buffet NAFTA market
• AutoSystems and Wagner are now Magna
• European suppliers dominate worldwide market
• Valeo Lighting Systems
• ValeoSylvania
• AL-Automotive Lighting
• Hella
• ZKW
• Schefenacker
• Flextronics-Sidler Automotive
• Asian manufacturers branch out
• Ichikoh
• Koito and S-Koito
• Stanley
• Korea' s lighting makers hit the ground running
• Light source makers - global globes
• Osram
• Philips Automotive Lighting
• Philips Lumileds

List of figures

• Figure 1: Global market share by value of Xenon headlamp systems, 2007 (%)
• Figure 2: Market share by value of Xenon headlamp systems for Japanese-built vehicles 2007 (%)
• Figure 3: Front-lighting suppliers to BMW by value, 2007 (%)
• Figure 4: Front-lighting suppliers to Chrysler (worldwide operations) by value, 2007 (%)
• Figure 5: Front-lighting suppliers to Ford (North American operations) by value, 2007 (%)
• Figure 6: Front-lighting suppliers to GM (North American operations) by value, 2007 (%)
• Figure 7: Front-lighting suppliers to Honda (Japanese operations) by value, 2007 (%)
• Figure 8: Front-lighting suppliers to Mercedes by value, 2007 (%)
• Figure 9: Front-lighting suppliers to Toyota (Japanese operations) by value, 2007 (%)
• Figure 10: Front-lighting suppliers to Volvo-Saab by value, 2007 (%)
• Figure 11: Front-lighting suppliers to VW-Audi-Porsche by value, 2007 (%)
• Figure 12: Variable horizontal beam cutoff gives maximum sight distance with minimum glare to adjacent drivers
• Figure 13: Variable vertical cutoff maximises sight distance despite hills, valleys and vehicles ahead
• Figure 14: Non-glare high beam ' slices' dark zone from beam for oncoming driver
• Figure 15: Marker light spotlights road hazard that would be invisible with normal beams
• Figure 16: Flexible headlamp deflects on impact, protects hit pedestrians
• Figure 17: Market share of primary front-lighting suppliers to North American-built vehicles by value, 2007 (%)
• Figure 18: Market share of primary front-lighting suppliers to European auto manufacturers by value, 2007 (%)
• Figure 19: Global automotive lighting market share by value, 2007 (%)
• Figure 20: Global interior lighting market share by value, 2007 (%)
• Figure 21: Ichikoh' s global operations

List of tables

• Table 1: Global market prevalence of halogen headlamps, 2007-2013 (fleet percentage)
• Table 2: Headlamp bulb prevalence by type, North American market, 2007-2013 (fleet percentage)
• Table 3: Headlamp bulb prevalence by type, Europe/Japan market, 2007-2013 (fleet percentage, high/low or low beam)
• Table 4: Global market prevalence by region of HID headlamps, 2007-2013 (fleet percentage)
• Table 5: Emitter count, system wattage and cost-efficacy for high-performance LED low beam, 2007-2013 (number of emitters, W and lm/US$)
• Table 6: Global market value by region for automotive LEDs, 2007-2013 (US$m)