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[🔴EVENT RESCHEDULED TO NOV. 18 - Mark your calendars] Join us for a live event marking the launch of the Blue Effect! 🚀 Beyond a simple program, it represents a collective effort to accelerate our positive impact on the planet and society. Because at FORVIA, we recognize that climate change poses an urgent threat to our society, and we all have a responsibility to act against it. Our commitments are strong, and our initiatives are well underway. However, to make a real difference, we need to accelerate—together with all our stakeholders. As part of an interdependent system, each of us, at every level, can make a change. 🔍We will dedicate this session to how FORVIA's innovation – focused on using less, better, and longer – ensures that our “designed for Scope 3” products remain aspirational, desirable, and affordable while driving sustainable change. Featuring the participation of Patrick KOLLER, Chief Executive Officer, FORVIA, Victoria CHANIAL, EVP Group Communications, Public Affairs and Sustainability, FORVIA, Elisabeth DELVAL, Group Sustainability VP, FORVIA, and Jaideep Prabhu, Professor of Business and Enterprise at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

Decarbonizing automotive mobility isn’t just about electric vehicles or more sustainable materials. Sure, these are essential, but there’s one thing people often overlook: Modularity. It’s about rethinking how we design and optimize the spaces inside our cars. Today, our teams focus on modularity to make it easier to reconfigure instrument panels, door panels, and center consoles. This brings three key advantages for automakers and consumers: 1️⃣ A common architecture that simplifies automakers' platform management through modular design. 2️⃣ Flexibility to customize or upgrade onboard features, like personalized lighting. 3️⃣ A circular approach to refurbish or upgrade the appearance of materials or surfaces. We ensure that replaced parts can be recycled, and materials reused, making it easier to disassemble end-of-life vehicles.

We’re the first Tier 1 supplier in the auto industry to offer a vehicle-friendly and safe Microsoft Teams solution within an automotive apps market, through our company Faurecia Aptoide Automotive (FAA)! Now, you can participate in meetings, access emails, and manage your calendars directly from your vehicle. As you can guess, safety was our top priority here. For instance, meetings automatically switch to audio-only when you drive. And reading chats or emails are disabled.  Coming soon 🔜 AI-assisted voice commands and Gen AI-based functionalities will let drivers control “FORVIA Meetings for Microsoft Teams” hands-free. Delivering a high-quality, safe, and seamless user experience for this new in-car application was a real challenge. It required close collaboration with Microsoft, and ongoing pilot programs with European and Chinese automakers. This app now joins the 200 other applications in FORVIA’s leading Apps Market!

⚡️The 2024 Paris Motor Show kicks off today with French President Emmanuel Macron visiting "La Fabrique de l'Électrique" by PFA*, an immersive space where we're showcasing solutions to decarbonize mobility. 👉 It highlights the innovations driving Electric Vehicles production—from batteries and motors to charging infrastructure. You’ll learn about battery energy and thermal management and efficiency, as well as component repair and remanufacturing. All three things we do at FORVIA! And that’s not it: Automakers Renault and Stellantis showcase there some vehicles equipped with FORVIA technologies such as the new Renault 5 E-Tech. Plus, we’re presenting three of our top sustainable innovations. 1⃣️    A sustainable seat demo crafted with fewer, better materials, and designed for easy assembly/disassembly. Which reduces CO2 emissions significantly and weight by 15% compared to a traditional seat. Sustainable, Affordable, Essential ✔️ 2⃣️   The MATERI’ACT wall, showcasing the compounds and foils based on bio and recycled materials used for structural and visible car parts. 3⃣️  Two hydrogen tanks equipping @Hyvia’s Renault Master van. Come and meet us! 👋 *the French automotive industry federation Mondial de l’Auto - Paris PFA - Plateforme automobile #parismotorshow #mondialdelauto #electricvehicles #ev

🦋 Butterfly Effect (noun): the phenomenon whereby a minute localized change in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere. Apply it to FORVIA, and you’ve got the Blue Effect. The Blue Effect is a program that we will launch next month, in November, during a LinkedIn Live session. Beyond a program, it is a collective and transformative movement within our Group towards a sustainable future! Because at FORVIA, we recognize that climate change is a major challenge and urgency our society faces today. It is transforming the automotive industry, and we have a role to play in this transition. 📅 Stay tuned and register for the official launch here: https://ow.ly/l7mK50TGVR9

Our demos are on a world tour! 🌍 After their stop in China in July, they continued their journey across India in September, visiting cities like Mumbai, Delhi, and Pune. Each stop provides an amazing opportunity for our teams to present our latest innovations that ensure safe, sustainable, personalized, and affordable mobility for our customers. What ties it all together? They're all designed with scope 3 in mind. We are committed to the principles of reducing, improving, and extending product life, creating repairable and replaceable solutions while integrating bio-based and recycled materials.

Illuminating roads and revolutionizing safety since 1899 💡 Story time! Did you know that FORVIA HELLA was founded in 1899 (under a different name, of course)? Back then, it was a lamp manufacturer. Candle and paraffin lamps, as well as bulb horns were the company’s very first products. But it was the 1908 acetylene headlamp “the HELLA system” (pictured on the left) that became its first iconic innovation. Fun fact: Sally Windmüller, the company’s founder, chose the name to honor his wife Helene (Hella is the short form in German). The product became so popular that the company was later officially renamed HELLA. In 1915, the teams discovered that a rotating coil within a magnetic field could generate electrical voltage to light bulbs. This led to the creation of the first electric spotlight!

🔴New appointment 🔴 Vincent Cousin is appointed as Executive Vice-President, Security, Cybersecurity, Risk & Crisis Management. Prior to joining FORVIA, General Vincent COUSIN was Deputy to the French Defense & National Security General Secretary (SGDSN) after having pursued a career within the French Air Force. He reached the rank of Air Corps General (four-star general). He notably served as the commander of the Air Defense and Air Operations Command (CDAOA). We are honored to welcome General Vincent Cousin to FORVIA’s Executive Committee! https://ow.ly/FWol50TCaJR

We’re launching a new series where you can ask our experts your burning questions about the automotive industry! This month, we’re kicking off with Christophe Aufrère, our CTO, who will dive into the evolution of vehicle electrification ⚡️ and answer your questions in an upcoming video. From CO2 emissions and affordability to the latest in materials, technologies, and hydrogen, the future of electrification raises many important topics. 👇 Drop your question in the comments, and stay tuned for Christophe's insights!

At IAA Transportation, the New Renault Master was named #VanOfTheYear2025! We’re proud to play a part in this success: 1️⃣ We designed the seats, and assemble the front-row seats — from individual seats to benches. And manufacture key elements like seat frames, padding, and covers. 2⃣️ FORVIA offers the dashboard and the wireless charging system. 3⃣️ In its hydrogen version (produced by HYVIA - a Renault Group and Plug Power joint venture), the van features our hydrogen storage systems (up to 9 kg of hydrogen across five tanks!). Which provides outstanding capacity for light commercial vehicles with intensive daily use. 4️⃣ As for the FORVIA HELLA teams, they equip the New Renault Master with technologies such as the Rain-Light sensors. While the rain sensor detects varying rain situations and automatically adjusts the wipers, the light sensor ensures the low beam activates in the dark or when entering tunnels. Nearly all FORVIA’s activities represented in one vehicle! We're proud to work with strong partners like Renault and Hyvia! Congratulations to them for this well-deserved recognition! We can't wait to see this van on the road.