Valeo wants to make mobility greener and safer, reveals six innovations at 2021 Shanghai Auto Show

Valeo has announced the development of the first 360° lighting solution. The technology surrounds the vehicle with a band of light, which projects clear, simple and instantaneous indications that can be seen by nearby road users, especially vulnerable road users such as cyclists and people on scooters and motor scooters.

At a time when mobility is taking on new forms and new vehicles are appearing, such as droids and other small delivery robots, Valeo is rolling out its ready-to-use technologies that can be integrated into the new driverless vehicles. The Valeo Mobility Kit, presented at the 2021 Shanghai Auto Show, consists of sensors – “the vehicle’s eyes and ears” – electronic control units and algorithms.

This is how driverless logistics solutions, benefiting from Valeo’s “Plug & Play” perception systems (operational as soon as they are installed), can take shape. With these solutions, new business that are based on proven technologies with automotive quality and reliability can be created, and at affordable costs thanks to large-scale production.

All of Valeo’s innovations, including those presented at the 2021 Shanghai Auto Show, aim to achieve mobility that is smarter – by reducing its impact on global warming – less energy-intensive, safer, capable of taking care of people and their health, and more easily shared with as many people as possible thanks to its affordability.

All of this comes as a result of Valeo’s innovation-driven strategy. In 2020, 94 per cent of the Group’s original equipment sales were generated by technologies that reduce CO₂ emissions and increase road safety and 56% of the orders received by the Group, including Valeo Siemens eAutomotive, were for technologies that did not exist three years ago.