This innovation will completely change automotive gentle design and car-to-X communication: With second-generation digital OLED back lights, the Audi Q6 e-tron is taking gentle design, vary of capabilities, and highway security to a brand new stage. Audi is steadily creating the know-how into clever shows that may talk with different highway customers by displaying data through the outside lights – that is the brand new communication gentle.
The energetic digital gentle signature is one other world first making its debut within the Audi Q6 e-tron. It makes a wholly new and vibrant impression, pointing the best way to the way forward for Audi lighting know-how. For the primary time, prospects can optionally choose digital gentle signatures for this new evolution of digital daytime operating lights within the Matrix LED headlights and the brand new era of digital OLED back lights. As well as, prospects could guide digital gentle signatures on demand.
The Q6 e-tron not solely marks a brand new chapter in electromobility at Audi; lighting know-how is a vital a part of Audi’s DNA. With the world’s first energetic digital gentle signature, the Audi Q6 e-tron ushers in a brand new period characterised by distinctive design and aesthetics distinctive to Audi.
The second-generation of digital OLED know-how shapes the look of recent Audi fashions and will increase their vary of capabilities many instances over. This, in flip, improves highway security, as impressively demonstrated by the communication gentle within the digital OLED back lights. The Q6 e-tron additionally units new requirements in personalization: With eight elective digital gentle signatures within the redesigned daytime operating lights within the Matrix LED headlights and digital OLED back lights 2.0, prospects can design the look of their Q6 e-tron like by no means earlier than. That is potential through the MMI and, for the primary time, through the myAudi app. Prospects are capable of purchase digital gentle signatures after buying their automobile.
Signature and motion mixed for the primary time: the energetic digital gentle signatureThe headlights and back lights look alive at first look – that is how prospects ought to think about the energetic digital gentle signature, a world first from the model with the 4 rings. It comes as a part of the elective bundle of digital gentle signatures. “The Audi Q6 e-tron marks the primary time in a manufacturing mannequin that we’re designing each the form of the lights and their total motion. Because of an ideal symbiosis between lighting design and the brand new know-how, the brand new Audi Q6 e-tron lights look extra vibrant and clever than ever earlier than. We’ve given the sunshine signatures their very own persona and the digital world its personal aesthetics on the similar time”, explains César Muntada, Head of Lighting Design. “With the world’s first energetic digital gentle signature, the Q6 e-tron is ushering in a brand new period of distinctive design and aesthetics distinctive to Audi.”
A software program module in one of many Audi Q6 e-tron’s area computer systems, collectively developed by Audi and the Group’s software program firm CARIAD, makes one of these gentle signature potential. Within the case of the second-generation digital OLED back lights, the six 360-segment OLED panels generate a brand new picture each ten milliseconds utilizing a specifically developed algorithm. This algorithm lets the energetic digital gentle signature show the automobile’s vibrancy and skill to work together personally by making the Q6 e-tron’s “mind exercise” seen by means of fixed motion. The energetic digital gentle signature on the entrance is created through the interplay of the algorithm with 12 dimmable segments, whereas on the rear, all of the digital OLED segments are used. The person gentle segments work together in order that the sunshine signature’s total picture doesn’t differ in luminous depth.
The second-generation of digital OLED technologyA temporary overview of digital OLED know-how 1.0: In 2016, Audi launched a brand new lighting know-how to the automotive trade within the TT RS. It was the primary time rear gentle know-how included natural LEDs – OLEDs for brief. OLED components are semiconductor-based floor gentle sources that generate gentle with good homogeneity and excessive distinction values. Their brightness can also be adjustable. As well as, the form of OLED lights will be configured freely and divided exactly into switchable segments. Dynamic lighting eventualities within the OLED back lights additionally debuted within the Audi TT RS.
In 2020, Audi Q5 prospects may choose a person rear gentle signature for the primary time due to the digital OLED back lights. With this accomplishment, Audi turned the primary automotive producer to change the rear gentle signature digitally. The shift was based mostly on OLEDs’ core properties: excessive distinction, segmentation into switchable zones, excessive gentle homogeneity, and the flexibility to rearrange the segments very tightly. Audi stays the one automobile producer to supply this evolution of know-how.
In 2022, this feature turned customary within the Audi A8 with digital OLED back lights. The automobile’s bus system allowed its software program to regulate every rear gentle panel and every OLED section individually. Within the A8, prospects may choose from three rear gentle signatures through the MMI; within the S8, they might select from 4.
“Audi acknowledged the potential of utilizing OLED know-how in back lights early on and has since continued to systematically advance their growth and digitalization as the one automobile producer to take action. Because of this, we are able to now supply our prospects an ever-new vary of lighting capabilities,” explains Stephan Berlitz, Head of Lighting Improvement, demonstrating a transparent technique behind the usage of this know-how. “Digital OLEDs are extra environment friendly, lighter, and extra homogeneous than conventional lighting programs,” Berlitz continues, providing a glimpse of the longer term: “Because of their robust distinction, they’re steadily turning into exterior shows, making them an vital enabler of communication with the automobile’s environment. With the proximity indication perform, we have now been utilizing gentle to work together with different highway customers since 2020. The Audi Q6 e-tron now provides the communication gentle to enhance highway security additional.”
The second-generation digital OLED back lights in detailWith the subsequent era of digital OLEDs within the back lights that now observe within the Audi Q6 e-tron, Audi is considerably increasing the vary of capabilities and design freedom whereas, above all, enhancing highway security. For the primary time, the digital OLED back lights can particularly talk with the quick setting (car-to-X communication). The variety of segments per digital OLED panel has elevated from six to 60 in comparison with the primary era. The Q6 e-tron’s back lights contains six OLED panels with 360 segments in complete. The brand new E3 digital structure makes it potential to regulate this considerably elevated variety of segments utilizing a software program module on one of many area computer systems. The regular improve within the variety of segments per digital OLED panel will, sooner or later, make it potential to develop the rear of the automobile right into a show that additional improves car-to-X communication and highway security.
The progressive digital OLED know-how creates the circumstances for a totally new rear gentle design, making certain a one-of-a-kind homogeneity and really excessive distinction. There are different benefits: Floor gentle sources don’t require extra reflectors, gentle guides, or optics, making them very environment friendly. Collectively, these properties permit Audi’s engineers and designers to interrupt down the design boundaries between two- and three-dimensionality. In different phrases, the model with the 4 rings is creating three-dimensional shapes on two-dimensional surfaces. Along with an built-in, expressive LED gentle strip on the rear, 3D glass efficiently separates the rear gentle signature from the opposite lighting capabilities.
Audi can also be innovating the entrance of the automobile. The subsequent era of digital daytime operating lights and the sunshine modules at the moment are visually separate, creating larger design readability. The designers have designed the person LEDs – 70 in complete – on this new evolution of digital daytime operating lights as clear 3D objects. The entrance part of the digital daytime operating lights encompasses a exact prismatic construction, whereas a metalized 3D trim surrounds them to attract the main focus to the automobile’s digital eyes.
Improved security due to clever headlights and rear lightsAudi has additionally taken the automobile’s security options to a brand new stage. Proximity indication, a function acquainted to different Audi fashions, is expanded within the new Q6 e-tron to incorporate a communication gentle. Built-in with the digital OLED back lights, it warns different highway customers of accidents and breakdowns by displaying a particular static rear gentle signature with built-in warning symbols and the common rear gentle graphic in crucial highway conditions. As with the superior site visitors data system within the A8, which warns highway customers of accidents or hazards through the digitalized headlights, the communication gentle makes use of knowledge from the swarm. As well as, second-generation digital OLED back lights activate the communication gentle with warning symbols for emergency help, RECAS (rear-end collision alert sign), hazard warning lights, emergency calls (eCall), roadside help calls (bCall), and emergency brake lights.
The communication gentle additionally provides an additional dimension to the exit warning perform. Beforehand, it solely knowledgeable the occupants when exiting the automobile, for instance, if one other automobile or a bicycle was approaching. Now, a specifically tailored gentle signature within the rear gentle graphic warns cyclists or drivers approaching from behind. On this approach, the Audi Q6 e-tron extends its security idea to different highway customers, rising highway security for everybody.
Lastly, the communication gentle additionally makes use of a particular gentle signature on the entrance and rear to point the automobile’s park help standing when it’s in automated parking mode. This makes it clear to highway customers within the quick neighborhood that the automobile is secure to strategy.
A brand new stage of freedom: digital gentle signatures obtainable through the MMI and the myAudi appWith as much as eight digital gentle signatures for the headlights and back lights, drivers can get pleasure from a brand new stage of freedom in personalizing their Q6 e-tron. Prospects can choose a signature in one in every of two methods, through the myAudi app or within the automobile through the MMI. Six extra signatures with a coming dwelling/leaving dwelling lighting state of affairs and the corresponding digital gentle signature can be found by means of extra elective packages.
By way of the myAudi app, prospects can activate their private gentle signatures from outdoors the automobile and expertise the dynamic lighting state of affairs and the approaching dwelling/leaving dwelling perform proper on their automobile. It’s the identical with the communication gentle within the second-generation digital OLED back lights and proximity indication. On request, the Matrix LED headlights can present a stay demonstration of the signal glare suppression and object masking options.
For a good larger diploma of personalization for the Q6 e-tron, prospects can guide the bundle of digital gentle signatures for the LED headlights plus/Matrix LED headlights and digital OLED back lights after buying their automobile utilizing on-demand capabilities. Prospects should purchase the options completely or for a particular interval. This flexibility lets Audi prospects design their Q6 e-tron with as much as eight digital gentle signatures (solely at the side of digital OLED back lights and LED headlights plus/Matrix LED headlights) to go well with private preferences. Lastly, they’ll additionally buy high-beam help and the Matrix bundle on demand.
Aug 1, 2023