Creating sustainable car seats is a crucial step towards making the entire vehicle more eco-friendly. Seats represent a significant chunk of vehicle weight—about five per cent, 80 out of 1,800 kg. They comprise numerous materials: metals, plastics, textiles, leather, foams, electronics, airbags, motors, and more, which makes them difficult at vehicle end of life. This week’s in-depth piece looks at recent projects from seating tier-1s, includingAdient, Forvia, Hyundai Transys, Lear, Magna, and Toyota Boshoku.
Seating represents a significant chunk of the parts cost in a car, too, at six to seven per cent, plus development and tooling cost. That reflects the magnitude and diversity of the seating value chain, which deserves significant content in the DVN Interior newsletter.
The forthcoming DVN Interior workshop (register here) will include a seating session, and we will present the newsletter content evolution with four pillars: cockpit/HMI, seating, interior lighting, and CMF–materials–sustainability.
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