Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1: What are LEDs?
1.2: Why LEDs?
1.3: Colours and white
1.4: White vs. white

Chapter 2: The market

2.1: Yesterday’s predictions in today’s light
2.2: Market conditions and predictions
2.3: Market shares
2.4: Market percentage fitment volume forecasts
2.4.1: LED headlamp forecast (fitment rates and volumes)
2.4.2: Rear LED lighting forecast (fitment rates and volumes)
2.4.3: LED CHMSL forecast (fitment rates and volumes)
2.4.4: LED signal lighting forecast (fitment rates and volumes)
2.5: Market value forecasts
2.5.1: Cost comparison
2.5.2: Full-LED headlamp forecast (market value)
2.5.3: LED rear combination lamp forecast (market value)
2.5.4: LED CHML forecast (market value)
2.5.5: LED front turn signal forecast (market value)
2.5.6: Total exterior automotive LED lighting forecast (market value)
2.6: Lamp suppliers
2.7: LED suppliers

Chapter 3: Technical review

3.1: Evolution – output & luminous efficacy
3.2: LED headlamps
3.3: Light quality
3.4: Thermal management
3.5: UV factors
3.6: Electronic control
3.7: Packaging
3.8: Regulations
3.9: Standardisation
3.10: Fog & Work: Beyond headlamps
3.11: Daylight Running Lamps (DRL) – a new adaptation
3.12: Emitter count
3.13: Rapid switching

Chapter 4: Manufacturers

4.1 Cree
4.2 Nichia
4.3 Osram Opto Semiconductor
4.4 Philips Lumileds
4.5 Seoul Semiconductor
4.6 Stanley

List of tables

Table 1: Full-LED headlamp percentage fitment rates for passenger cars and light trucks, Western & Eastern Europe, Japan and North America, 2010 - 2015

Table 2: Full-LED headlamp volume fitments for passenger cars and light trucks, Western & Eastern Europe, Japan and North America, 2010 – 2015

Table 3: LED rear combination lamp percentage fitment rates for passenger cars and light trucks, Western & Eastern Europe, Japan and North America, 2010 - 2015

Table 4: LED rear combination lamp fitment volumes for passenger cars and light trucks, Western & Eastern Europe, Japan and North America, 2010 - 2015

Table 5: LED CHMSL percentage fitment rates for passenger cars and light trucks, Western & Eastern Europe, Japan and North America, 2010 - 2015

Table 6: LED CHMSL fitment volumes for passenger cars and light trucks, Western & Eastern Europe, Japan and North America, 2010 - 2015

Table 7: LED front indicator fitment rates for passenger cars and light trucks, Western & Eastern Europe, Japan and North America, 2010 - 2015

Table 8: LED front indicator fitment volumes for passenger cars and light trucks, Western & Eastern Europe, Japan and North America, 2010 – 2015

Table 9: Cost comparison between HID and LED automotive lighting, 2010, 2012 and 2015

Table 10: Full-LED headlamp market value for passenger cars and light trucks, Western & Eastern Europe, Japan and North America, 2010 - 2015

Table 11: LED rear combination lamp market values for passenger cars and light trucks, Western & Eastern Europe, Japan and North America, 2010 - 2015

Table 12: LED CHMSL market value for passenger cars and light trucks, Western & Eastern Europe, Japan and North America, 2010 - 2015

Table 13: LED front turn signal market value for passenger cars and light trucks, Western & Eastern Europe, Japan and North America, 2010 - 2015

Table 14: Total exterior automotive LED lamp market value for passenger cars and light trucks, Western & Eastern Europe, Japan and North America, 2010 – 2015

List of figures

Figure 1: LED automotive applications: Global market shares, 2010

Figure 2: Chevrolet Malibu rear lamp, basic incandescent-bulb tail/stop/turn behind red lens

Figure 3: Chevrolet Malibu rear lamp, deluxe with Joule LED tail/stop/turn behind clear lens

Figure 4: Hella’s Platinum LED headlamp for the Cadillac Escalade

Figure 5: 2010 Toyota Prius: Halogen vs. LED headlamps

Figure 6: Osram JFL2 Joule LED Integral-Beam Fog Lamp

Figure 7: Hella Power Beam 1000 LED Work Light

Figure 8: Curvilinear LED array on Audi R8

Figure 9: Chevron-shaped LED array on Opel Insignia

Figure 10: Hella’s aftermarket Daylight Running Lamp

Figure 11: Peterson 36-diode LED stop/tail lamp

Figure 12: Peterson 7-diode LED stop/tail lamp

Figure 13: Truck-Lite single diode LED stop/tail lamp

Figure 14: Outboard-to-inboard sequence of the Audi R8’s front turn signal lamp