Transportation Lighting

As lighting systems for vehicles incorporate new innovative technologies, original equipment manufacturers and suppliers (OEM and OES), wholesalers and retailers need safer, high-performing transportation lighting solutions.

Automotive lighting overview

High-quality automotive lighting plays an essential role in contributing to safer driving. Automotive lighting technology continues to evolve and advance, now incorporating high-powered LEDs and lasers that deliver outstanding light quality and critical beam control, allowing for improved visibility and safety in adverse weather conditions.

From adaptive front headlamps to signature exterior lighting and advanced infotainment and display panels, our vehicles’ safety and functionality continue to transform.

Testing capabilities

Our global lighting laboratories provide automotive lamp LED testing to continuously meet the different needs of the industry derived from more diverse applications, especially in high-end fields (such as automotive taillights, fog lights, brake lights, daytime running lights and headlights). Leverage UL Solutions experts’ safety science expertise and global service to keep pace with lamp, module and component supply chain demands and energy efficiency requirements.

For decades, UL Solutions has partnered with the entire supply chain for lighting distributors, electrical material manufacturers, retailers, architects and designers. In doing so, we have built a strong foundation under the automotive market with support for compressed design and development engineering, Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) timelines, and other automotive industry concerns involving complex timing.

We know the tight deadlines so often required in this highly competitive industry, and our testing facilities offer turnkey automotive lighting certification to FMVSS 108 and CMVSS 108.

Some specific UL Solutions lighting testing capabilities you’ll find at our laboratories include:

For the many different light sources, we use state-of-the-art measurement and test equipment that includes:

• High-speed Type A goniophotometer
• Electro-dynamic vibration tables
• Thermal shock chambers
• Thermal shock, heat, humidity, water penetration and salt test chambers

UL Solutions has many laboratories which can conduct performance and reliability testing capabilities, and we continue to expand our service scope. 

We have the competency and capability to conduct testing to international requirements, including the standards of the Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (JEDEC), the standardization organization for solid-state and semiconductor industries, as well as the industry standard AECQ-102/SAE USCAR-33 for components in automotive electronics, IEC 60810/ISO 16750 for modules and NHTSA FMVSS108/SAE for vehicle lamps.

UL Solutions offers automotive lighting manufacturers reliability testing of LED/ VCSEL products for use, lifetime performance, endurance and electrical characteristics under various environmental conditions, in line with solid-state and semiconductor industry standards.