The Bright Future of Vehicle Lighting w/ Stephane Vedie

AVL's Reimagine Mobility Podcast

Vehicles continue to shift focus more on electronics and software and this shift impacts lamp manufacturers. In this week’s episode of Stephane Vedie, CEO of LUXIT Group joins Stephan Tarnutzer as they reimagine mobility in the world of vehicle lighting. They discuss innovations, design integration, smart lighting, safety features and more.
There is a trend towards smart lighting in cars, focusing on interior lighting and features. Some features allow customers to customize welcome features based on lighting, including high-resolution logo projections and small movies and videos.
The regulations for these features are evolving, with China becoming more advanced and allowing new functions to be legal on the road. Different users share vehicles, driving the trend of sharing mobility. Users want to customize their vehicles to feel like they are their own. Lighting plays a significant role in safety, function, and customization in the future world of software-defined vehicles.
LUXIT is a world-leading technology expert in vehicle small lamp design, with a mission to inspire and guide the evolution of lighting for styling, branding, performance, and safety. LUXIT is a company of world-leading technology experts in vehicle small lamp design and manufacture, headquartered in Farmington Hills, Michigan, serving OEMs and Tier 1 customers separately under two divisions.
Their mission is to inspire and guide the evolution of lighting for styling, branding, performance, and safety in automotive small lamp, auxiliary lighting and components for both exterior and interior applications.
LUXIT has a global footprint and full vertical integration allows us to serve our customers with speed, creativity, and flexibility, and our family of companies operates as a streamlined organization.
Stephane is the CEO of LUXIT Group, a global lighting supplier to the Automotive Industry.
He has 25 years’ experience in the automotive industry working for global corporations in Europe and North America. Prior to joining LUXIT Group, Mr. Vedie was the North American CEO at Magneti Marelli (now Marelli) and the Global CEO at Varroc Lighting Systems (now Plastic Omnium Lighting).
He joined New Water Capital in September 2021, a PE firm located in Boca Raton Florida, to lead their automotive platform. LUXIT Group was created with the acquisition of 5 different privately owned companies. Mr. Vedie holds dual Masters Degrees, one in Purchasing from University of Grenoble (France,) and the other in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business in Amiens (France).
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1. The Bright Future of Vehicle Lighting w/ Stephane Vedie (00:00:00)

2. Lighting and EVs (00:01:32)

3. Interior / Exterior Lighting Innovations (00:04:50)

4. Design Integration (00:06:38)

5. Insourcing & Outsourcing & Reshoring (00:08:21)

6. US Lighting Production – Regionalization Trends (00:11:14)

7. Smart Lighting (00:13:00)

8. Future of Features (00:18:11)

9. Lighting and Safety (00:19:50)