The benefits of switching to LED lighting on a BMW are clear—literally. LED headlights provide crisper, whiter illumination, ...

In the warmer months when the sun rises early and sets late, we hardly give a thought to our motorcycle headlight bulbs. The headlamp just comes on when we start our bike and goes off when we ...

A number of northern states in the U.S. may be able to see the northern lights Wednesday night, according to a forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which predicted ...

Xenon headlights, also known as HID headlights, which heat gases and rare metals to generate a bright white or blue glow, are also legal if fitted by a car's manufacturer, but are illegal to add to a ...

If your car came from the factory with halogen or HID bulbs ... your experience. LED headlight bulbs are becoming more commonly used by luxury automakers such as Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz.

Xenon bulbs, or HID ... headlight bulbs. You might think that Xenon bulbs are a relatively new development, but they’ve been around since 1951, although it wasn’t until 40 years later, in 1991, that ...

These lights use xenon in a chemical reaction that creates bright yellow-white light. In 2004, Audi became the first brand to use LED lights as part of their daytime running lights system on the R8.

BMW’s laser headlights were once hailed as the future of automotive lighting, debuting in the sleek BMW i8 back in 2014. But fast-forward a decade, and the German automaker is phasing out this ...

BMW has officially decided to discontinue laser-powered headlights. Andreas Suhrer, the company's large-car product manager, recently said that laser lighting has no future at BMW and the focus ...

An HID headlight contains an HID light bulb, which consists of two electrodes encased in a glass enclosure. This enclosure is filled with xenon gas and metal salts. Because they contain xenon gas ...

The early 20 th century had the first automobiles fitted with kerosene oil lamps for night travel, which used an open flame and couldn't provide any visibility ahead. Luckily, automotive ...

Halogen lights ... lamps with xenon gas, xenon headlamps became a thing in the 1990s due to the E32-gen BMW 7 Series. The folks at Hella and Bosch produced the first low-beam HID headlamps for ...