Lexus of Albuquerque has selected Visible Light Solar Technologies, a solar/LED commercial lighting innovator, to retrofit its exterior lot lights at both its Albuquerque and Santa Fe dealerships following an initial pilot installation that yielded 82% energy savings. The solar/LED lights also gave the dealership true-color nighttime light quality, equal in clarity to daylight lighting, allowing for secure and effective afterhours customer browsing.

Lexus, as part of parent company Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc., is involved in company-wide efforts to reduce energy and water usage in all its operations. By fiscal year 2011, the company plans to reduce energy consumption of U.S. facilities by 18 percent compared to the fiscal year 2001 baseline. Lexus actively supports its dealerships in efforts to do the same. Lexus was the first luxury brand to introduce gasoline/electric hybrid vehicles and currently offers three models, with a fourth hybrid debuting at the 2009 North American International Auto Show.

Visible Light Solar is the first commercial and industrial lighting company to fully integrate LED lighting devices, solar power technology and advanced power management and control systems in exterior and interior lighting fixtures. The Vector line of retrofit products features the patentpending Self Powered Device Interface (SPDI), an intelligent controller that monitors the solar battery level and manages the seamless switching between battery and grid power for 100% reliability. In addition, SPDI allows fixture-by-fixture programmability based on clock time, motion detection and ambient light levels, providing enhanced security and the ability for customers to raise and lower illumination levels as needed in order to reap additional energy savings.