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Integrated cockpit domain controllers, head-up display and driver assistance features are expected to get integrated into the cluster in the forecast period

Automotive Instrument cluster is a set of instruments and gauges that helps in understanding the functioning of a vehicle at a single glance. Instrument cluster comprises speedometer, tachometer, fuel gauge, warning indicators, pointers, sensors and electronic control unit. The display can be either analog, digital or hybrid. It ensures driver’s safety as it keeps track of the car’s health and movement.

Google revealed a new feature in Android Auto at its Google I/O annual developer conference, the new Android Auto will support instrument cluster integration, that is the app will display on cluster if the screen is supported by digital display. Q2

The electronic components such as display screen (mostly LCD), integrated chips, and control units are available readily and cheaper in cost. This has been a major factor in expanding the market.

Digital clusters will continue to be a premium feature in emerging economies and also contribute to increased value per unit of the digital cluster. Integrated cockpit domain controllers, head-up display and driver assistance features will be further integrated into the cluster in the forecast period.

The instrument cluster in a car contains the different displays and indications that allow the driver to control the vehicle. Several instruments, such as a speedometer, odometer, tachometer, oil pressure gauge, fuel gauge, and other indicators for system failures and alerts, are among them.

Pickups account for 16-17% market share of new car sales in the US and all of them have Analogue dials + TFT display(centre) + multiple gauges setup (on top). Ford F-150, the top-selling US vehicle for more than four decades, gets a 8 inch TFT display in centre for higher variants and 4.2 inch display for lower variants.

15 inch diagonal multi-color head-up display which projects data onto the windshield such as speed, temperature, directions, time. There are 3 DIC cluster options.

12 inch diagonal screen with vehicle dynamic control with traction control system as well as a multi-color head-up display. The cluster includes gauges for speed, temperature, infotainment details as well as fuel details.

12.3 inch instrument cluster with configurable display and 3D animations. Speed, temperature and other vital information can be projected on the 6 inch head-up display.

High share of Premium and Luxury car sales in Europe region has boosted the Automotive Instrument cluster market immensely, by Value. All the top selling models in Europe feature hybrid instrument clusters. VW now offers the biggest range of Digital instrument clusters starting from Polo, Golf, to Tiguan, Passat across multiple variants.

Among French OEMs, Renault offers a 7- inch TFT Display on many top-selling vehicles but not on its Budget brand Dacia. PSA group offers Digital instrument cluster on best-selling SUVs like 208,3008 and 2008.

The ecoboost displays how much electric power has been generated by the mild hybrid system and tracks whether the energy is returned to the battery or used to assist fuel efficiency as well as speed.

As of 2020, Toyota is yet to transition from TFT screens in their top selling vehicles Prius, Sienta and Corolla. The digital cluster is estimated to get more than 50% of the value market share in 2025 at ~$1.5B and the overall instrument cluster at ~$2.8B by 2025

Till date, there is no option of adding a Digital instrument cluster as a Paid option while configuring a car like US and EU markets. For Example, one can opt for a 10-inch Digital cluster in VW T-Roc for ~$500 extra.

Nobo Technologies to use Blackberry’s advanced digital cockpit controller for the next generation SUV Haval H6S, for the cluster display, infotainment, driver monitor system built using Blackberry QNX Neutrino Real time operating system and QNX Hypervisor. Q3

In July 2021, Visteon Corporation announced a joint venture with Cerence Incorporation, an AI developer. The venture is set to integrate Cerence’s conversation AI system with the company’s SmartCore product to feature Voice-enabled cockpit solutions for two-wheelers. The system will be launched in agreement with a leading motorcycle manufacturer in the year 2024, it will offer a 12-inch display screen with connected apps and cloud software download capabilities.

Panasonic has developed a concept for advanced cockpits which will feature multiple displays as well as touchless operation. The electronic cockpit solution offers an innovative digital instrument cluster with other displays using HMI.

In the year 2019, Visteon Corporation announced the launch of a digital instrument cluster to be incorporated in PEUGEOT 208. The unique 3D i-cockpit will come equipped with a pair of TFTs to provide graphical content with 3D animations as well as content on both screens.

Automotive instrument clusters give drivers a consolidated and easy-to-read display with all of the vehicle’s important driving data. It’s the driver’s workspace, so a perfect cluster dashboard that can be safely updated and customised is essential.

Global human machine interface(HMI) technology provider Candera GmbH, is partnered with auto component manufacturer Varroc Engineering Limited, by signing a MoU(Memorandum of Understanding) agreement. Candera will supply software solutions in HMI and Varroc will develop hardware for the TFT instrument cluster.

Denso Corporation recently released the first quarter results for the fiscal year 2022 with the total consolidated revenue of $12.3 billion which was a 77.3% increase from the previous year same quarter. The company also stated that the revenue has significantly increased due to the recovery in sales of vehicles and production activities from the COVID-19 pandemic. The company announced the development of future cockpit system technologies based on HMI. The cockpit system will be in a curved display with organic OLED. The system will use AR superimposition technology to ensure quick and intuitive recognition, minimise driver disturbance and help in eliminating errors.

But early details point to a massive improvement over the current Passat. Its mechanical foundation is the MQB platform that"s under the award-winning Golf. The platform eventually will underpin more than two dozen VW Group models.

"It"s a very early preview," says VW Group Australia spokesman Karl Gehling. "One of the advantages of the MQB is packaging efficiency. It will create a more spacious interior. The platform was developed to accommodate everything from the Polo to a mid-sized SUV." That"s a clear hint of a new VW model between the Tiguan and Touareg. Gehling says only that an all-new Tiguan will be the next MQB model but not before 2016. Audi already has its A3 on that platform and Skoda has done the Octavia.

So, for now, the focus is on a car that runs fifth in VW sales down under after the Golf, Tiguan, Amarok and Polo, with great potential for sales growth.

Surprisingly, the Passat wagon sells better in Australia. "Our diesel is the most popular engine and the wagon has always been very strong here," Gehling says.

The body design is lower and wider, with the windscreen set further back behind a lower bonnet. The dashboard is cleaner and more up-market, there are LED rear lamps and a huge range of new safety and infotainment kit, still to be confirmed for Australia.The line-up runs from Emergency Assist, which can potentially halt a vehicle when the driver is incapacitated, to an optional Active Info Display, replacing the instrument cluster with an interactive 12.3-inch TFT display.

“Innovision Cockpit” as the centre.The interior designers have completely redesigned the vehicle interior of the Touareg and consistently customised it for the digital age. Wherever it makes sense, digital surfaces replace conventional displays and controls. The dominant centre of the vehicle interior is formed by the wide, exquisite dash panel with the optional integrated “Innovision Cockpit” – an alliance of the digital instruments (12-inch “Digital Cockpit”) and the infotainment system “Discover Premium” (with a 15-inch TFT touchscreen). It is the control centre of a new era – an interactive interface for the Touareg where the information and settings of all essential comfort, assist and infotainment systems converge in one matrix. Thanks to a separate eSIM (initially in 13 European countries), the new SUV is also "always on". The “Innovision Cockpit” is a departure from the conventional – never before has a Volkswagen interior of this type been digitalised and extensively linked to the vehicle functions and outside world to such an extent.

Digitalised cockpit. One of the many technical innovations of the new Touareg generation is the “Innovision Cockpit”. Here the 12.0-inch display of the digital instruments and the 15-inch TFT touchscreen of the top infotainment system “Discover Premium” are merged into a new digital operating, information, communication and entertainment unit that is always on and can be intuitively controlled and fully personalised. The “Innovision Cockpit” has virtually no traditional buttons, switches or controls, but uses them where it makes sense – for intuitive volume control, for example.

Fusion of new assist, driving dynamics and comfort systems.The Touareg launches with the widest range of assist, driving dynamics and comfort systems that has ever been integrated in a Volkswagen. This includes technologies such as “Night Vision” (detects people and animals in the dark using a thermal imaging camera) “Traffic Jam and Roadwork Lane Assist” (partly automated steering and lane departure warning up to 60 km/h, acceleration and braking), “Front Cross Traffic Assist” (responds to cross traffic in front of the Touareg), active all-wheel steering (making the Touareg easy to handle like a compact car), a new roll stabilisation system with electromechanically controlled anti-roll bars, the “IQ.Light – LED Matrix Headlight” (interactive low beam and main beam controlled by means of a camera) and a head-up display projected directly on the windscreen (windshield head-up display). The driver experiences these systems in the new Touareg as one unit. They are simply there - networked via a new central control unit - to operate unobtrusively in the background and to make the trip as safe, comfortable and intuitive as never before.

Starting with the family-hauling Atlas three-row SUV, and continuing with the five-seat Atlas Cross Sport and a Tiguan compact SUV crafted to fit U.S. tastes, VW sales have risen steadily. At the same time, VW deemphasized its slow-selling sedans and hatchbacks.

VW morphed from a nostalgia act, its appeal based on the 1930s Beetle, into a source for today’s hot vehicles — SUVs — and promoter of tomorrow’s hot technology: electric vehicles.

Global Automotive News is reporting that the handsome looking VW Arteon is going to be discontinued in 2024. Sharing its platform with the Audi A5 Sportback, it could also mean the retirement of this Audi A5.

The reports suggest that Volkswagen management will be replacing the Arteon with the ID.Areo electric vehicle which is targeted at Tesla buyers. This third ID electric vehicle is a VW Passat-sized car that should go on sale in 2024.

The spacious interior of the Arteon received significant updates last year that further accentuate its upscale nature. Drivers can choose from 30 colors to both illuminate the door panels and dashboard trim décor, and apply the color to the Digital Cockpit Pro and MIB3 infotainment displays.

The advanced Volkswagen Digital Cockpit Pro system, standard on all Arteon models, presents drivers with a fully-digital instrument cluster. Using a 10- inch TFT display, the Volkswagen Digital Cockpit offers a configurable presentation of important vehicle information, with 21 viewing options.