BMW Race Car Demonstrates Energy-Efficient Ecolumination
Headlights at Silverstone
MILTON KEYNES, England, September 15, 2008 - Ceravision Ltd, the company
behind the ultra energy-efficient
Ecolumination lighting range, recently partnered with leading motor racing
team, West Surrey Racing, to demonstrate its automotive lighting system. A
set of headlights was fitted to a BMW race car and tested at Silverstone,
the
home of the British F1 Grand Prix.
Ceravision's Ecolumination technology is a revolutionary, high quality,
low-cost, energy-efficient lighting system, which uses microwave technology
to power electrode-less bulbs. The bulbs are simple to adapt to existing
designs and are mercury-free. Ecolumination is leading innovation in the
global lighting industry, bringing new levels of efficiency and quality to
both indoor and outdoor lighting.
"The automotive project was conceived to demonstrate the effectiveness
of
Ceravision's Ecolumination lamps in the extreme environment of motor
sport,"
explains Tim Reynolds, Ceravision's CEO. "Under test conditions on the
Silverstone circuit, the headlights showed significantly lower energy usage
than that of current headlamps or the projected savings from future LED
lights."
With the success of the initial testing, Ceravision is now seeking
development partners in the automotive lighting industry to bring the
headlights rapidly to market. The system is available for licensing by
qualified manufacturers.
Dick Bennetts, Managing Director of West Surrey Racing, adds: "I've
worked for over 25 years with some of the leading manufacturers in the
world,
including BMW, Ford and Honda, along with drivers such as Ayrton Senna,
Rubens Barrichello and Tom Kristensen. I believe that Ceravision's
Ecolumination technology is the biggest breakthrough in automotive lighting
I've seen. It represents a significant improvement in terms of performance,
colour quality and reduced power consumption."