Martin Fischer, CEO of FORVIA, said: "We are thrilled to unveil our cutting-edge innovations at the Shanghai Auto Show, showcasing FORVIA’s vision for enhanced mobility experiences. As the world’s largest automotive market and a tech leader, China is central to the industry's global transformation. For three decades, our company has firmly established itself as a trusted partner in the country, driving innovation and fostering collaboration to support China's automotive industry's growth and transformation. Our dedication to excellence and our deep-rooted presence in the country has enabled us to support the industry's advancements. This commitment will continue and grow in the coming years, and I am excited to witness and contribute to the dynamic progresses in the automotive industry here”.

Saphir, FORVIA's Masterpiece with AI driven innovations
FORVIA will present its latest masterpiece, Saphir. This mid-size low-body car segment integrates disruptive innovations, offering affordable and attractive solutions for comfort, efficiency, and freedom on every journey. Saphir addresses key evolutions of in car experiences with new design approach and new car usages.
It is a concentrate of our greatest technologies.

Cutting-edge Electronics
Electric fuse iConF (FORVIA HELLA): A first-of-its-kind intelligent, configurable electronic fuse that enables significant reduction of the wiring harness, enables increasing levels of autonomous driving and enhances vehicle safety through predictive maintenance and proactive energy management.

Radar ForWave7e (FORVIA HELLA): The latest addition to the 77 GHz radar family, ForWave7e is designed to satisfy cost sensitive customers, delivering premium performance without sacrificing quality.

Skyline pillar-to-pillar display (FORVIA Faurecia): A key innovation projecting alerts onto the windshield to ensure a clutter-free and a distraction-free environment, without the prohibitive cost of using one long, curved screen.

Baby Care (FORVIA Faurecia): A new feature transforming the front passenger's likeness into AI-powered and funny avatars that can be displayed on a device mounted on the rear of the front seats to entertain kids during a journey.

Smart and sustainable Interiors
AirVision (FORVIA Faurecia): An advanced Image Projection system with an intuitive Gaze-Control Interaction, allowing drivers to select options by looking at them, minimizing distraction and keeping hands on the wheel.

Next-Generation Transparent Door Technology (FORVIA Faurecia): An advanced projection technology providing real-time external visibility and alerting passengers to hazards while enabling dynamic ambient lighting and information displays for drivers and passengers.

Sustainable materials and unique process capabilities leveraging end-to-end ecosystem (NFPP/ natural fiber-reinforced composites compression, Ecorium, Auraloop™, NAFILean by MATERI’ACT).

Seating for greater safety
Safe 45 (FORVIA Faurecia): Driver’s seat that can recline up to 45 degrees while driving – with a view to future safety regulations. Integrated Occupant Monitoring System that triggers various warnings using vibrations and sounds in the event of unsafe positions or behaviors.

Innovative Lighting
Sustainable Exterior Lighting (FORVIA HELLA): Conceptual ideas and ready-to-sell front and rear lighting solutions minimizing environmental impact, including a compact LED headlamp module with water cooling, merging compact design with efficiency.

FORVIA’s Auto Shanghai 2025 program also proudly includes latest innovations tailored to C-OEMs and fitting well to Chinese consumers’ preferences, like:

• Safe 60 Seat for maximum safety in a more relaxed position
• 3D Zen Massage Seat for a premium home massage chair experience
• Transformer seat that adjusts to the occupant’s body and travel conditions
• Customizable headlamps to meet C-OEMs’ unique design signatures
• Modular instrument panel and on-demand center console.

Bernard Schäferbarthold, CEO of FORVIA HELLA, said: "The Chinese automotive market is of particular relevance to us. Every third vehicle produced worldwide rolls off the production line here, and China is also one of the most important frontrunners in terms of transformation, innovation and agility. We are therefore very pleased to be represented at Auto Shanghai in 2025 and to be presenting numerous world premieres and other technology highlights there, with which we are precisely addressing the needs of the market in China, for China.”

TrendForce 2024 Global Automotive LED Market- Lighting and Display Product Trend
Release Date:
1. PDF (180 Pages)- 30 June 2024
2. EXCEL- 30 June 2024 and 31 December 2024
Languages: Traditional Chinese / English