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TEL AVIV, Israel, Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

Peter Mertens, automotive industry veteran and investor, has participated in a

pre-seed investment of the Israeli start-up V-HOLA Labs (VHOLA)

[http://www.v-hola.com/] and joined its board. The start-up develops solutions

for measuring, monitoring and reducing electromagnetic radiation (EMR) in fully

or hybrid electric vehicles. EMR is becoming a growing health concern as the

automotive industry speeds towards electrification.   VHOLA's technology brings

two types of solutions. One is an aftermarket vehicles' radiation detector

which will measure and record the cabin's electromagnetic field levels, helping

Fleet managers to analyze their vehicles behavior over time, targeting B2B such

as school buses fleet at first. The second is an integrated solution

implemented at vehicle's design, helping OEMs in preventing harmful radiation

peaks by regulating the energy flow and EMR throughout the vehicle's lifetime.

The core technology is patent pending.

"Many smart high-tech solutions like VHOLA's are coming from Israel," explained

Peter Mertens. "In the field of electromobility, VHOLA is an important and

promising solution for controlling electromagnetic radiation. I am an absolute

proponent of electromobility, and precisely for this reason we should take an

unbiased look at risks from electromagnetic radiation and limit those risks as

far as possible".

"We are very pleased with the commitment made by Peter Mertens, as he is the

most relevant authority at OEMs' R&D departments, along with his industrial and

educational background", said Asaf Tsin, Founder and CEO of VHOLA. "Our

measurements already present alarming results in electric vehicles, meaning,

there is an acute need for our solution. We have already extensively tested our

aftermarket solution in field trials in Israel covering more than 30 vehicles,

including E-Bus, Electric and Hybrid cars."

Note: In Europe, the protection standards for non-ionising electromagnetic

fields (EMF) follow the recommendations of the ICNIRP (https://www.icnirp.org/)

based in Munich. More about "Passenger Exposure to Magnetic Fields in Electric

Vehicles" see here

[https://www.intechopen.com/books/modeling-and-simulation-for-electric-vehicle-a

pplications/passenger-exposure-to-magnetic-fields-in-electric-vehicles ].

About Peter Mertens

Following senior executive positions at Mercedes, GM and JLR/Tata, Dr. Ing.

Peter Mertens was an executive board member at Volvo Cars (2011 to 2017) and

most recently (2018) at Audi AG when he retired for health reasons. Since end

of 2019 Mertens is back and he is involved in supervisory boards of high-tech

companies, which all have one thing in common: it's about the car of the future.

Press contact:

Karl H. Mayer

Karl.mayer@essentialmedia.de

phone +49-172-84158419

Source: V-HOLA Labs