Space heating in electric cars costs electricity—and therefore range. Researchers are working hard to find energy-efficient heating methods, and they have found a possible solution in nanomaterials. Up to now, the waste heat of the combustion engine has been used to heat the vehicle interior. There’s no such waste heat with electric cars, so electric…
Adient, based in Plymouth, Michigan, is a top-three seating systems supplier. They’ve made a major sustainability achievement by integrating recycled carbon from mobility waste into seating systems. Seat pad foaming chemistry typically uses polyurethane made of isocyanates and polyols. With polyol from development partner Dow MobilityScience, as an intermediate product partly based on recycled chemicals,…
Infineon Technologies now has radar technology to monitor people in automated vehicles. Infineon is a semiconductor group spun off of Siemens in 1999 and listed on the stock exchange in early 2000. They are a market leader in smart car components. Their new radar can detect subtle movements from people in a car, including children…
With the new use cases and human/car relationships, audio has a new importance. It can even strengthen the link between a car owner and the car. Through a partnership with LifeScore, a UK sound startup, a Bentley demonstrator car now can compose a soundtrack based on a driver’s inputs and driving style, using artificial intelligence.…
Ford’s Explorer has been near the center of the SUV trend in North America since its inception. As you can see in the image above, there have been six generations of the Explorer since the first 1991 model. As is typical, the Explorer has grown to its current 7-seat configuration. In the beginning, the Explorer…
26. Framing mobility (this story is part of an ongoing series introducing automotive interiors as an evolution of our habitat) If we were to talk about consoles, seats and door panels, they would all have their unshakable place in the story of car interiors, but if we were to talk about ‘glass’ we might be…
Developing systems for autonomous driving is complex and expensive, so several companies have joined forces for this purpose. A safe system architecture for self-driving vehicles: this is what leading technology and automotive companies want to develop together. They are working together under the name “The Autonomous”. After the kick-off in 2019 and events in 2020,…
Last year, interior specialists Aunde and TB Kawashima, a Toyota Boshoku company, founded a joint venture in India. Now the cooperation is being rolled out to other markets. The two automotive suppliers Aunde and TB Kawashima have agreed an alliance to strengthen competitiveness in the global market for interior materials, mutual use of production sites…
Gilles Mabire will be the new Chief Technology Officer of the Automotive Technologies division at Continental. Mabire will start in this position by the first of next year, succeeding Dirk Abendroth, who last month left Continental by his own request. Until Mabire’s transfer, Michael Hülsewies, Head of Architecture and Software, will serve as acting CTO.…
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