Filed under: Emerging Technologies, LA Auto Show
How cool can a driver’s seat headrest be? How about cool enough to charge your iPod while you drive? Or maybe the real cool feature is that a new, thinner headrest could, along with other lightweight interior parts from Faurecia, could shave 130 pounds off of a vehicle’s weight. That is, if Faurecia’s technologies are implemented in full by the target date of 2020.
Faurecia displayed some of its “clean” technologies at the LA Auto Show this week, including a lightweight and very thin seat (above, introduced earlier this year), a premium wood fiber called ligneos, and the aforementioned thin headrests. One way Faurecia makes the items smaller and lighter is by using biomaterials and natural fibers in the ligneos, ligneco, and lignolight products. In thin headrest prototype, the design drawing show that the back could have a light, coat hanger or iPod charger installed. While these sorts of things aren’t being used in production vehicles yet, Faurecia says that “16 of the 20 most fuel efficient vehicles on the world market” already make significant use of the company’s products.
Gallery: LA 2009: Faurecia Booth
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