While sustainability is a high priority target for OEMs and Tier-1 organisations, companies are cherry-picking at this stage and looking for the path of least resistance to get closer to their sustainability goals and lowering the carbon footprint for each of the vehicle components.

Bringing down the carbon footprint of car seats has always been challenging, but this is exacerbated by vehicle electrification where you cannot stop the electrical consumption of the seat, remove features and functions and avoid the use of metals.

• So what approaches, applications and tools are available for sustainable seat manufacturing? Join this dialogue to find out.

FIRESIDE CHAT

• See how diagrams demonstrating seating concepts that allow for more versatility have actually been manufactured and turned into reality.
• Learn how to ensure higher levels of safety if the occupant changes seating position.
• How have restraints such as seatbelts and airbags have been integrated into autonomous vehicles.
• Sharing experiences and progress that has been made from a simulation point of view to optimise out-of-position seating and crash performance.
• Find out what measures have been taken to guarantee performance if the occupant is in a deeper lying position in a lounge chair.