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Volkswagen | Investment in 3-D Technology
Volkswagen has acquired a minority stake in the technology company SeeReal
Technologies. This shareholding will give the group access to augmented reality
solutions in the field of future display systems for cars. The research project
will provide Volkswagen with key expertise in making driving even safer and
more convenient in the future. Potentially hazardous situations on the road will
be projected into the driver’s environment in three dimensions, and “touchable”
displays will be suspended in the car to replace instrument panels. Future genera-
tions of head-up displays will even merge three-dimensional presentations seam-
© Volkswagen lessly with the environment, allowing for innovative display concepts both in the
distance and near to the driver. Conventional dashboards may eventually become

SeeReal Technologies is carrying out research into technologies of this type.
In the future, head-up displays will merge with the driver’s environment obsolete and vehicles may be controlled using virtual switches and displays.

Charge4Europe | Hubject | Europe’s

Largest Charging Network

Charge4Europe, a joint venture of DKV Euro Service and Innogy in the field of charging infra-
structures for electric cars, has started its operations. Its mission is to develop a non-propri- © Charge4Europe
etary, European-wide charging infrastructure for commercial fleets of electric vehicles, with
the aim of turning it into the largest European network. It plans to have installed 100,000
charging points by 2020. Charge4Europe has signed a license agreement to this effect with Charge4Europe has signed a license agreement with the
Hubject, which is one of the largest international e-roaming platform operators. e-roaming platform operator Hubject

Ibeo | Lidar for China

China’s largest manufacturer of SUVs and On level 3, drivers can temporarily turn
pickup trucks, Great Wall Motor Company, their attention away from the task of driv-
has chosen the Germany-based automo- ing and the traffic. However, they must
tive supplier Ibeo to provide lidar systems be prepared to take back control of the
for its vehicles. The systems will initially car at any time. On level 4, drivers can
be used in the company’s Wey SUV model. become passengers and stop driving the
© Ibeo Ibeo’s newly developed sensor will provide vehicle altogether. These vehicles will be
safe level-3 autonomous driving functions
capable of driving fully independently on
The cooperation agreement between Ibeo and Great Wall in Great Wall’s production models from certain routes (such as on highways and
is signed 2021 and level-4 functions from 2023. in parking garages).

Edag | Research into Metal 3-D Printing

The symbolic presentation of a certificate similar as possible to the future production
for the German-Polish project AM-Crash parts. AM-Crash will cover the entire pro-
by German Federal Minister of Education cess chain from powder-bed-based laser
and Research Anja Karliczek provided additive production and local and global
confirmation that Edag would receive fund- thermal treatments through to joining pro-
ing for its research work. The aim of the cesses. Research will also be carried out © Edag
research project is to improve 3-D printing into the simulation capability of the process Richard Kordaß, Dr. Martin Hillebrecht, Holger Merz (all Edag),
processes (additive manufacturing) to chain, in order to minimize future expendi- Anja Karliczek (Federal Ministry of Education and Research),
ensure that the printed prototypes are as ture on testing. Michael Brand (Member of the Federal Parliament) (f. l.)
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