OLEDWorks proudly announces that the Audi A5 and S5 vehicles are to incorporate its cutting-edge digital OLED 2.0 technology, powered by the Atala brand.
In the new A5 and S5, there will be 6 modules, each with about 60 red emitting OLED panels. The total number of panels is 364. The panels provide personalized lighting signatures and dynamic, adaptive communication on the road.
The A5 (and S5) is Audi's second car model to adopt OLEDWorks' 2nd-Gen Digital OLED lighting solutions, after the 2024 Audi Q6 e-tron.
In August 2019 Audi announced its first-gen OLED lighting technology, called Digital OLED, which uses multi-segment OLED taillight modules that can show signs and information - or just display new lighting designs. The first-gen solution just over 50 OLED segments in total, so the 2nd-Gen solution in the A5 offers over 6 times more panels.
Audi has a long history with OLED lighting - it started developing and implementing OLED lighting back in 2012 when the company partnered with Philips to demonstrate several OLED lighting prototypes. Philips OLED unit was sold to OLEDWorks in 2015. See more about Audi's 2012 and 2013 OLED prototypes here.
In 2016 Audi launched its first automobile with OLED lighting - the 2016 TT RS which used OSRAM panels in an optional OLED rearlight module. The 2018 Audi A8 used four small vertical OLED taillight modules on each side. The modules were provided by Hella, and the OLED lighting panels themselves were made by Osram. In April 2018, however, OSRAM announced it is pulling out of the OLED lighting market.
Since 2019, Audi started working with OLEDWorks on OLED lighting technologies, and in 2022, Audi launched its 2022 Audi A8 and S8 cars, with OLED taillights produced by OLEDWorks.
