Audi Q5 - Lighting Technology
Impressive by day and night: the lighting design
With the new Audi Q5 SUV, Audi not only underlines its leading role in lighting design and technology, but also goes one step further. The rear lights have a three-dimensional design, spectacularly bringing together the physical and digital worlds in combination with the light strip, which spans the entire width of the vehicle.
At the rear, the strikingly designed second-generation digital OLED rear lights and the projection light in the spoiler above the rear window, used for the first time in Europe, deliver increased safety. It projects a graphic into the upper rear window area, thereby enlarging the brake light area. It is also integrated into the Coming Home and Leaving Home scene when leaving and unlocking the vehicle.In the case of the second-generation digital OLED combination rearlights, the six digital OLED panels with a total of 266 segments generate a new image several times per second using a specially developed algorithm.
The active digital light signature also signifies the future of Audi lighting technology. At the front, the active digital light signature is created by the interaction of the algorithm with fifteen segments that dim up and down. The individual light segments interact in such a way that the overall appearance of the light signature does not vary in terms of light intensity. "In the Audi Q5, we design not only the shape of the light in a series-production vehicle, but its entire movement. Thanks to the symbiosis between our lighting design and the new technology, the light of the Q5 appears livelier than ever before. We have given the light signature its own personality and the digital world its own aesthetics at the same time," explains César Muntada, Head of Lighting Design. "With the active digital light signature, the new Q5 continues an era of unique design and aesthetics that can only be found at Audi."
With the digital OLED combination rearlights 2.0, the Q5 raises the lighting design, range of functions and therefore safety in its class to a new level. For the first time, the second-generation digital OLED combination rearlights can communicate with the vehicle’s immediate surroundings (Car-to-X) in a targeted manner. Proximity detection, which was first introduced in 2020, has been expanded in the new Q5 to include the communication light. It warns other road users of accidents and breakdowns. In addition to the regular tail light graphic, it displays a specific static tail light signature with integrated warning symbols in the digital OLED combination rearlight in critical driving or traffic situations.
The technology also sets new standards in terms of individualization. With – depending on equipment – up to eight digital light signatures in the redesigned daytime running lights of the Matrix LED headlights and in the digital OLED tail lights 2.0, drivers can personalize their Q5 in a completely new way. A specially designed Coming Home and Leaving Home scene is available for each digital light signature when leaving and unlocking the vehicle.
03/2025