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Site Update: LED car headlights within the year

27may09HellaVW 200.jpgStandard cars will have LED headlights in the next 18 months, according to headlight maker Hella.

"Expect a breakthrough into volume within the next year or one and a half years," Steffen Pietzonkam head of marketing at Hella, told Electronics Weekly, "We are working on 13 or 14 car models with full LED headlamps."

Both Audi's R8 and Cadillac's Escalade Platinum are in production with full (both main and dip beams) LED headlights.

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