Porsche's New Headlight to Transform Night Into Day with around 16,000 LEDs

December 26, 2022 By Raulf Hernes

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The high illumination capabilities of Porsche's revolutionary headlamp technology promise to make nighttime seem like daytime. According to the most recent reports, Porsche declared that it has created a new lighting system that features thousands of LEDs. Hermann-Josef Stappen, Porsche's spokesperson for R&D and technology communications, outlined the operation of the automaker's innovative lightning technology. According to a Porsche spokeswoman, the chip that combines more than 16,000 individually adjustable micro-LEDs onto a surface area the size of a thumbnail serves as the innovation's central component. Two of these LED chips "are utilised for each headlamp," according to Stappen. As a result, each car uses four of these tens of thousands of LEDs because each one has two headlights. The headlights with HD matrix technology, according to Stappen, "therefore give a high-resolution light distribution up to twice as bright across an area four times larger than prior top-notch systems." Porche's New Headlight

Having said that, the new lighting system, which boasts thousands of LEDs, promises to provide noticeably brighter illumination on the road than existing options. According to Porsche, this new technology can essentially make a nighttime environment appear to be a daytime environment. Ben Hummel, manager of Light Module and Regulation head of lightning modules, claims in a recent Hot Cars report that the high beam can illuminate an area at about 300 lux and travel up to 600 metres. According to Hot Cars, this performance could brightly light up a total of three warehouses at this rate, putting it into perspective. The renowned automaker claims that it is still energy-saving despite the ultra-bright performance of these LED chips. The automaker's spokesman emphasises that while the amount of light is constant, "they require significantly less energy [than] other high-resolution systems." Because the HD matrix headlights only turn on the pixels that are truly required at any one time, it is conceivable. So even though it performs extremely brightly, it nonetheless conserves energy needed to power cars. Furthermore, Porsche reportedly went above and above to ensure that this technology was made available, according to reports. To make it a reality, the manufacturer has submitted up to 25 patent applications.

By Raulf Hernes

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Porsche's New Headlight to Transform Night Into Day with around 16,000 LEDs

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