Mobility always find a new path with FORVIA
The automotive landscape is being transformed by digitalization, economic growth in Asia, and the increasing demand for sustainability. These forces inspire us to push boundaries, leveraging advanced technologies like AI, sustainable materials, and intelligent power management, to reimagine how automotive products are designed, manufactured and experienced to delivering safe, customized, affordable and sustainable mobility solutions for everyone.
"At Auto Shanghai, we will demonstrate breakthrough innovations in AI, autonomous driving, smart cabins, and ultra-fast time-to-market strategies — offering a glimpse of what’s next. With FORVIA mobility always finds a new path."
Martin Fischer, CEO of FORVIA
Discover FORVIA’s featured technologies that will be presented this year at Auto Shanghai 2025!
FORVIA Saphir Masterpiece
FORVIA Saphir
FORVIA Saphir
FORVIA is revolutionizing the automotive cabin experience and redefining what a road vehicle can offer by seamlessly integrating comfort, safety, technology, and sustainability. Our designs transform vehicles into adaptable, personalized spaces for work, leisure, and social interaction.
With roominess as key highlight, Saphir offers an unexpected feeling of space across versatile configurations, shifting seamlessly from your daily commute to a unique cruising experience for all occupants, and finally becoming a weekend companion for outdoor adventures.
Inside Saphir supports lifestyle continuity with home design and furniture-like interior element (such as the central console and lighting). Its very calm interior, showcasing a variety of sustainable materials developed by FORVIA, gradually reveals its features once you need them. Disruptive invisible display integration and multimodal and sensorial system, leveraging sensors and actuators throughout the cabin, enable more efficient & safe interactions. Saphir is our dream illustration of FORVIA’s innovative use of multimodal HMI (Human-Machine Interface) technology.
Reducing CO2 emissions through smart designs and processes
FORVIA advances sustainable automotive interiors with innovative designs in their OPALE interior concept demonstrator with low-impact MATERI’ACT materials, and lightweight solutions. Technologies like NeoSkin enable high-quality surfaces with color and texture directly through injection, reducing costs, and material use. Compression technologies with NFPP (natural fiber-reinforced composites) further enhance lightweight design, while introducing premium, sustainable finishes like woven flax fibers.
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Next-Generation Transparent Door Technology
Next-Generation Transparent Door Technology
Building on its CES 2024 award-winning design, FORVIA’s Gen 2 Transparent Door enhances safety and convenience. By replacing the LED matrix with advanced projection technology, it delivers improved image quality at a lower cost. Projected into the upper door panel, the image provides real-time external visibility and alerts passengers to hazards. Beyond safety, it supports dynamic ambient lighting and information displays, seamlessly connecting the cabin with the outside world.
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AirVision: Advanced Image Projection and Intuitive Gaze-Control Interaction
AirVision: Advanced Image Projection and Intuitive Gaze-Control Interaction
FORVIA’s AirVision delivers a stable, vibration free reflection by creating a 3D virtual image of a display on a flat, translucent surface integrated into the instrument panel. With “gaze-and-select” technology, it uses a Driver Monitoring System camera to detect the driver’s gaze, allowing selection with a glance and a click, reducing distractions for a seamless driving experience. Scalable and highly adaptable, AirVision can replace traditional displays, offering OEMs design freedom to create unique, 360° seamless interiors.
MATERI'ACT
MATERI'ACT
Portfolio offers sustainable, high-performance materials aimed at reducing CO₂ emissions and weight across automotive products. Launched two years ago, MATERI’ACT has already been used in over 10 million vehicles, including the Renault 5 E-Tech.
Harnessing over 15 years of expertise in smart, sustainable materials, MATERI’ACT leverages AI to accelerate material formulation, reduce development time, and deliver customized solutions. Each MATERI’ACT material is equipped with a digital passport, providing full transparency and traceability with key sustainability indicators, including CO₂ reduction and recycled content percentage.
Key materials include NAFILean, a recyclable bio-composite made from hemp fibers, and IniCycled, which incorporates up to 100% recycled plastic. The latest innovation, NAFILean Vision, is a recycled material designed for visible and decorative applications. With its range of color and refined textures achieved directly during injection, it eliminates the need for painting — combining aesthetics, sustainability with cost efficiency. MATERI’ACT also pioneers ultra-low CO₂ surface materials, like Pinatex (pineapple fibers) for interiors. With up to 85% CO₂ reduction, these materials enable OEMs to meet sustainability goals while providing traceability through digital passports that show key sustainability indicators.
Discover other innovative technologies presented by FORVIA at Auto Shanghai 2025
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Skyline pillar-to-pillar display
Skyline pillar-to-pillar display
FORVIA’s Skyline pillar-to-pillar display delivers a seamless, immersive infotainment experience at an affordable cost. By assembling six smaller displays instead of one large, curved screen, we enhance sustainability, reduce production costs, and improve quality. Designed for all vehicle segments, Skyline offers navigation, driver information, safety alerts, eMirror feeds, and customizable apps— bringing high-end technology to mid-range and compact cars for the first time.
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Vehicle exterior displays
Vehicle exterior displays
FORVIA’s display solutions offer full design flexibility, allowing seamless integration anywhere at the vehicle, whether at the front, rear, or side, like in the rocker panel. Tailored specifically for automotive applications, our modular display portfolio offers high-resolution, high-contrast, and cost-effective solutions to meet diverse industry needs. OEMs can utilize our displays for dynamic communication features such as safety messages, welcome and goodbye scenarios as well as even realize legal lighting functions like turn signals or position light.
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Electronic fuse solution iConF
Electronic fuse solution iConF
Based on 30+ years of expertise in electronic controls, FORVIA HELLA launches iConF, the eFuse solution that advances from cable protection to proactive energy distribution, crucial for vehicles with automated driving functions. Unlike traditional fuses, iConF, which can be integrated into HELLA ECUs or OEM devices, uses semiconductor elements to actively monitor and control power distribution in 12V and 48V systems, ensuring fail-operational functionality, critical for maintaining system availability. AI-based predictive maintenance, using AI and digital twins, prevents failures, improving system stability. By reducing wiring harness length and diameter by up to 30%, it enhances space, weight, and efficiency.
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ForWave7e – performant sensor for cost-sensitive customers
ForWave7e – performant sensor for cost-sensitive customers
FORVIA HELLA, a trusted radar supplier with 20+ years of experience, offers a 360° radar portfolio for cost-optimized, high-resolution solutions. ForWave7e is designed for cost-sensitive customers, delivering premium performance, meeting China NCAP standards, and enabling AD Level 2+ and above. It excels in complex traffic and supports parking without ultrasonic sensors, offering design flexibility and cost optimization. Providing comprehensive coverage, it detects pedestrians, scooters, and e-scooters, enhances safety with timely warnings, and supports accurate detection and emergency braking. Radar-assisted parking uses existing sensors for cost-effective, safe parking.
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Transformer Seat
Transformer Seat
FORVIA’s Transformer Seat sets a new benchmark in comfort and adaptability. Using advanced sensors and safety technology, it automatically adjusts up to 10 parameters based on the occupant’s morphology and driving conditions. Features like embedded lighting, massaging, haptic feedback, and heating enhance both comfort and luxury, making it ideal for high-end vehicles across all powertrains.
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3D Zen Massage Seat
3D Zen Massage Seat
Bringing home massage chair technology to vehicles, FORVIA’s 3D Zen Massage Seat offers kneading, rubbing, tapping, and grasping functions for a superior relaxation experience. Its compact, adaptable design suits various OEM platforms, while customizable massage modes cater to long drives, leisure, or charging stops. Its versatile massage options redefine in-vehicle wellness.
