ACC - Adaptive Cruise Control
ADAS – Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
AD – Autonomous Driving
AEB - Autonomous Emergency Braking
ALKS - Automated Lane Keep System
Collaborative Driving - the car is handling parts of the driving, and the driver is still engaged
CPV - Content per Vehicle
ECU - Electronics Control Unit
HAD – Highly Automated Driving
HMI - Human Machine Interface
JV - Joint Venture
Lidar - a method for measuring distances (ranging) by illuminating the target with laser light and measuring the reflection with a sensor.
LKA - Lane Keep Assist
LVP - Light Vehicle Production
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
Radar - a method for detecting the presence, direction, distance, and speed of objects, by sending out pulses of radio waves which are reflected off the object back to the source.
NCAP - New Car Assessment Program
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
Financial
Cash flow before financing activities - a non-U.S. GAAP financial measure, which is defined as net cash used in operating activities plus net cash used in investing activities
Days Receivables Outstanding - Includes temporary hourly personnel
Days Inventory Outstanding - Outstanding inventories relative to average daily sales
EBITDA – a non-U.S. GAAP financial measure, which represents the Company’s net income excluding interest expense, income taxes, depreciation and amortization and including loss from equity method investment. We believe that EBITDA and Segment EBITDA are useful measures for management, analysts and investors to evaluate operating performance on a consolidated and reportable segment basis, because it assists in comparing our performance on a consistent basis
Effect of exchange rate changes in cash - Including cash equivalents
Gross Margin - Gross profit relative to sales
LTM - Last Twelve Months
Net Working Capital - a non-U.S. GAAP financial measure, which is defined as Total current assets excluding cash and cash equivalents minus total current liabilities excluding short-term debt
Number of Associates at period-ending - Employees with a continuous employment agreement, recalculated to full time equivalent heads
Number of Total Associates at period-ending - Includes temporary hourly personnel
Operating Cash flow - equivalent to “Net cash used in operating activities”
Operating Margin % - Operating income relative to sales
Order Book - Estimated total future sales attributable to documented new business awarded, based on estimated product volumes and pricing and exchange rates
Order Intake - Estimated future average annual sales attributable to documented new business awarded based on estimated average annual product volumes, average annual sales price for such products, and exchange rates
PP - Percentage points
SEC - U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Shareholders’ Equity - Basic number of shares used to compute net loss per share in millions. Participating share awards without right to receive dividend equivalents are (under the two-class method) excluded from the loss per share calculation
U.S. GAAP - Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP or U.S. GAAP) is the accounting standard adopted by the SEC.
YoY - Year over Year
