PRESS KIT AUTO SHANGHAI 2015 Hall 5.2 / Booth 5BH201

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Introduction

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Individual and collective needs are shaping the automotive industry. Drivers today are looking for improved performance, comfort, pleasure, safety, connectivity. Our world needs cleaner, greener modes of transport – saving energy, improving air quality, minimizing environmental impact. Mobility in the future may bring different approaches that will continue to transform the automotive market and our driving experience. Faurecia combines the growing need for sustainable mobility, with ways to enhance the on-board experience.

Faurecia creates individual and collective well-being.

Faurecia’s technologies and innovations help automakers respond to environmental and safety challenges as well as consumer expectations. Faurecia combines technical perfection with automotive passion to create individual and collective well-being.

What is “Driving Well-Being” ?

A focus on customers and consumers Faurecia is one of the world’s leading automotive equipment suppliers providing technologies in four areas of expertise: automotive seating, emissions control technologies, interior systems & automotive exteriors. Our ambition is to be the leader in innovative solutions and global program management for the automotive industry. Our strategy is to deliver long-term valuecreation, through sustained customer partnerships and anticipating customer and consumer needs. Driving Well-Being is Faurecia’s customer promise: • Bringing the technologies that will create value for automakers • Delivering tangible user benefits for consumers

A new way to create value Faurecia is driving well-being through innovations for sustainable mobility and an enhanced life-on-board: • Sustainable Mobility represents Faurecia’s focus on cleaner and lighter vehicles: To improve fuel economy and air quality, for many years we have focused our R&D efforts on cleaner and lighter vehicles. • Enhanced Life On-Board represents Faurecia’s focus on the driving and vehicle experience: Consumers are increasingly demanding features that can enhance their vehicle and driving experience.

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Driving Well-Being relies on our transversal strengths: • Solid, product driven systems and methodologies; • Excellence in engineering, program management and manufacturing; • Relentless focus on quality and cost and on our core competences in: • Systems architecture and integration; • Physical systems (mechatronics, fluid dynamics, aerodynamics); • Material development and transformation; • Simulation and testing; • Perceived value in acoustics, comfort, visual and ergonomics. Our vision of Sustainable Mobility involves innovation in four areas: • • • •

Lightweight technologies Bio-materials Energy recovery Air quality

For Enhanced Life On-Board we design technologies to ensure: • • • •

Personalized comfort Perceived harmony Intuitive connectivity All-round safety

Sustainable Mobility

Lightweight technologies

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Less is More demonstrator The Faurecia Less Is More demonstrator shows how we can harmonize these systems into a lighter, more comfortable vehicle with thinner, roomier seats featuring high-strength composite structures that substitute for steel. The interior also highlights more efficient heat recovery systems and bio-sourced panels. Outside, a carbon fiber liftgate weighs half as much as a conventional hatch. Under the car, Faurecia offers new ways to slash CO2 emissions with an exhaust heat recovery system.

Lightweight technologies

Lightweight seat with optimized architecture Faurecia has successfully used innovative solutions to reduce the thickness and weight of the front seats, providing more room for rear passengers without compromising the safety or comfort of vehicle occupants. In the B segment, this has led to front seat structures that are 35% lighter than conventional counterparts in the same segment, largely through an optimal combination of different materials including steel, non-ferrous metals such as aluminium and magnesium, and carbonfiber composites.

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These technologies make it possible to reduce the weight of the rear shell by 40% while providing an extra 3 cm of leg room for passengers in the rear. All of these innovations allow automakers either to create a roomier vehicle with the extra 3 cm or to obtain an indirect weight saving of 3 kg if the length of the vehicle is reduced by 3 cm. Combined with the 4 kg shaved off the weight of each front seat through the use of innovative materials, this means Faurecia can offer automakers weight savings of up to 11 kg, or 1.1 g of CO2 per kilometer. This lightweight optimized seat has been chosen by Renault for its EOLAB prototype, presented on its booth at the Paris Motor Show. Faurecia R&D teams are now exploring which materials can best reduce the weight of seats while meeting industrial requirements.

«Less is More» demonstrator seat

Faurecia has also created a seat back that is 30% more compact by drawing on three areas of expertise: • Optimized seat-back structure; • A semi-stiff shell with an adaptive back mounted on the seat structure to tailor comfort to each individual shape of back; • A smaller recliner.

Renault EOLAB prototype seat

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Fiber glass composite vehicle floor Faurecia engineers have developed an integral structural floor comprising a front and rear passenger floor and a trunk floor made of composite thermoplastic material reinforced with glass fiber, which is made using “thermostamping” techniques. In addition to offering outstanding mechanical performance to meet crash-test requirements and ensure recyclability, the polyamide-based composite thermoplastic (PA 6.6) with glass-fiber reinforcement also makes it possible to weld and over-mold parts. The technology reduces both weight and costs compared with bonding while producing a material able to withstand the very high temperatures created during cataphoresis.

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To muffle the noise resulting from this drop in density, Faurecia has also improved the floor design by incorporating acoustic components into the empty space between the upper and lower layers of the thermoplastic structure. This approach to rethinking materials and design has put Faurecia in a position to offer a floor that is 16.5 kg lighter (11.5 kg in the front and 5 kg in the rear) than a conventional steel floor, reducing CO2 emissions by 1.65 g/km. The product achieves the goal of a 33% weight saving set by Renault for its EOLAB concept and could enter production four or five years from now.

Fiber glass composite vehicle floor

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Composite carbon-fiber tailgate and lightweight bumpers Faurecia’s composite tailgate features a “semi-structural” design that consists of a skin and a lining with a thickness of 1.5 mm to prevent torsion. This eliminates the need for additional strengtheners in flat areas by optimizing the direction of the carbon fibers in relation to the forces acting upon them. The stiffness and reduced density have also made it possible to remove one of the two tailgate stabilizers to further reduce weight. A groove is also molded into the lining to accommodate the electrical cables and reduce the number of fasteners.

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Faurecia’s technology offers a number of other advantages in addition to the weight savings resulting from the use of composite materials, including: • The removal of interior trim components as a result of the quality of the carbonfiber material, which can be painted directly; • The reduction in the number of parts to be assembled, such as the mechanisms (a single tailgate stabilizer); • The integration of features to facilitate assembly (e.g. electrical-cable grooves); • The ability to produce more complex shapes than with parts made of metal or glass, such as the rear window. The composite tailgate featured on the Peugeot 208 Hybrid Air 2L comprises a combination of plastic and carbon fiber, reducing weight by 35% or 7 kg. The “lowcost carbon-fiber project” (FORCE) launched by the Plateforme de la Filière Automobile (PFA) in France should make this material more affordable and ensure that it begins to appear on mass-production models in the next eight years.

Tailgate: left, the carbon-fiber composite version. right, the steel part (series production)

Faurecia has also trimmed the weight of bumpers by reducing their thickness from 3 mm to 2.5 mm, enabling weight savings in the region of 500 g for each bumper, or 1 kg per vehicle, representing an improvement of 11% compared with conventional bumpers.

Lightweight technologies

Compact exhaust line Faurecia’s Emissions Control Technologies business group works daily to develop new, innovative exhaust systems that enable ever-greater weight savings while meeting environmental standards and reflecting people’s expectations with regard to cleaner technology. Faurecia’s partnership with Renault on the EOLAB project has involved a comprehensive approach to the exhaust system. It has partially reworked the exhaust design to introduce plastic materials that are lighter than their steel counterparts. The manifold and emissions control components are based on those found on mass-production gasoline models. To incorporate these materials into the exhaust system, Faurecia engineers chose to replace the acoustic function of the rear muffler with a resonator by using a gas separation system that can keep the temperature below 200°C (maximum plastic resistance).

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Faurecia has used this lower temperature to integrate an innovative plastic Helmholtz resonator (polyamide and glass-fiber) into the exhaust system, which has a density six times lower than that of steel, reducing weight by 50% compared with a steel resonator. Not only is it lighter, but the Helmholtz resonator also effectively muffles low frequencies and reduces the humming sound inside the cabin to enhance the comfort of the occupants. Faurecia has also worked on reducing the thickness of the steel components used in the exhaust system and has successfully slimmed some internal parts down to just 0.6 mm. The exhaust system has also been shortened by around 1.5 meter compared with systems used on vehicles in the B segment, ending just before the rear wheels. This new, compact exhaust system has allowed Renault to make additional weight savings of up to 2.3 kg compared with conventional exhaust systems used in the B segment.

Compact exhaust line

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Compact Exhaust Heat Recovery System (EHRS) Around 30% of the energy content in fuel is dissipated as exhaust heat. Faurecia designed the Compact Exhaust Heat Recovery System (EHRS) to capture on average 40% and up to 60% of this wasted energy while warming both the engine and the passenger compartment more quickly. By heating the cabin faster, the Compact EHRS allows the electric motor to kick in sooner on hybrid vehicles. This reduces CO2 emissions by an impressive 3 g/km and improves fuel consumption by 7%.

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The Compact EHRS will initially feature on a mass-production hybrid vehicle due to go on sale in the first half of 2016. Faurecia was the first equipment supplier to fit this type of system to a mass-production model, for Citroën in 2006. It is also preparing for the future by working with automakers on new energy-recovery technologies, such as the Rankine system and the ThermoElectric Generator (TEG), making it possible to convert heat into a source of electrical or mechanical energy that can be used directly by the vehicle.

The latest EHRS is more compact and is 50% lighter than the previous version, tipping the scales at just 2 kg. It is the most competitive solution of its kind on the market.

Compact EHRS

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Biosourced interior parts NAFILean (natural fiber for injection) is a process developed to introduce natural fibers into high-performance materials for instrument panels, door panels and center consoles made using injection processes. Faurecia’s NAFILean is the automotive interior market’s only injected material with natural fibers and allows for complex shapes and architectures while enabling further weight savings. NAFILean combines natural, hemp-based fibers with polypropylene—a mixture that produces injected parts that are 20% to 25% lighter than standard plastics, enabling weight savings of up to 2.1 kg. Based on the renewable nature of the fiber portion of the mixture, the industry has validated NAFILean’s end-of-life recyclability and incorporates the solution into its standard processes for regenerating and treating plastics. NAFILean also provides a 40% improvement in fit and finish.

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Faurecia’s NAFILean offers the market an exclusive solution that is compatible with conventional injection-molding machines. The technology made its world debut in the door panels of the Peugeot 308, which was unveiled to the public at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show.

NafiLean instrument panel part

NafiLean instrument panel and door panel parts

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Lightweight window-lifter

Hybrid crosscar beam

Conventional window-lifter systems are mounted on two metal rails, with steel being the material of choice based on cost, even if it is clearly not the lightest option. Speaker housings are mounted on the door lining; and door-handle supports also consist of individual metal components.

The majority of instrument panel crosscar beams used by automakers on massproduction vehicles are made of metal, which is a more affordable material. Although their weight has been lowered over the years, they remain relatively heavy, largely because of the numerous welding points.

Faurecia’s system involves the use of a one-piece injection-molded module that incorporates all of these three components. This solution is in itself a lighter option. However, it also makes it possible to use fewer parts, which simplifies assembly while reducing the metal door lining and therefore the overall weight of the door.

Other, lighter materials, such as aluminium and magnesium, are already being used by high-end manufacturers, but the costs involved are prohibitive for mass-production vehicles. As a result, Faurecia has set out to produce lighter instrument panel crosscar beams that can meet the most stringent safety standards at an affordable cost. New manufacturing processes will make these new materials more cost-effective for mass production by 2020.

Faurecia’s integrated lightweight windowlifter module cuts the weight of a five- door vehicle by up to 3.5 kg. The system is already commercially available and is set to appear on vehicles released in 2016.

Lightweight window-lifter

Faurecia teams are currently working on a crosscar beam that comprises a composite material incorporating both glass fiber and carbon fiber. The result weighs just 3.6 kg, compared with 6.3 kg for a conventional metal crosscar beam, providing a weight saving of 2.7 kg (a reduction of 43%). This “full-composite” crosscar beam is set to feature on mass-production models from 2020.

Hybrid crosscar beam

Air quality

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Gasoline emissions control Gasoline Particulate Filter FAURECIA PRODUCES THE WORLD’S FIRST GASOLINE PARTICULATE FILTER TO HELP PASSENGER VEHICLES MEET NEW STANDARDS One occasional drawback of innovation is that the introduction of a product to resolve one problem may create another problem of its own. Such is the case with direct-injection systems. While direct-injection engines can cut fuel consumption and improve performance, they also emit far more particulates than conventional port-injection technology. Faurecia has introduced the world’s first and only Gasoline Particulate Filter (GPF) as a way of resolving this issue. Direct injection involves injecting fuel directly into the combustion chamber instead of into the engine’s intake ports. It is a highly efficient way to reduce CO2 emissions, especially when coupled with turbocharging. This system presents a challenge, however. The fuel has less time to mix with air when it is directly injected into the combustion chamber. The problem is amplified by the fact that, at the end of the injection, the injector closes and the speed of the fuel is greatly reduced, further limiting its ability to vaporize and mix with air. This incomplete mixing leads to particulate emissions that are much higher than those associated with port-injection technology.

Regulators have long recognized the potential for particulate emissions from diesel engines, and the industry has responded to emission standards with very effective diesel particulate filters. Now, regulatory agencies in China and Europe have identified the potential particulate issue with direct-injected engines and are implementing strict limits on particulates from gasoline engines. For instance, Euro 6.c standards for 2017 require a tenfold reduction, versus Euro 6.b, in the number of particulates emitted per kilometer by 2017. Similar legislation under discussion in China, under Beijing 6 rules, tightens restrictions on gasoline particulates in two steps, with one set of restrictions taking effect in 2017 and another in 2020. In the U.S., the mass of particulates is subject to ongoing sets of restrictions.

Gasoline Particulate Filter

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HOW THE GPF WORKS The Faurecia Gasoline Particulate Filter is similar in function and structure to the diesel particulate filter (DPF) but differs in its material. While the DPF is made of silicon carbide, the GPF substrate is cordierite, a synthetic ceramic. The GPF works in conjunction with a three-way catalyst that reduces carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides to harmless molecules. As in a DPF, plugs are placed in the inlets to half the channels of the three-way catalyst and in the outlets of the other half. This method forces the gases to go through the wall of the catalyst to reach the outlet. Particulates, mainly black carbon, are mechanically deposited on the filter, which is close-coupled with the three-way catalyst. Subsequently, the particulates that accumulate in the GPF need to be burned off. Diesel systems accomplish this by injecting fuel that mixes with the oxygen in the exhaust gases and igniting them. Gasoline engines, however, have no oxygen at the exhaust. So, the Faurecia GPF obtains air in a different manner. When the driver removes his foot from the pedal, fresh air is aspired by the engine and then is rejected through the combustion chamber as heated air. It reaches the GPF as hot air, suitable for burning off the particulates. Supplying the air is achieved automatically by releasing the pedal. With the burning of the particulates accomplished in this continuous mode, the GPF presents no risk of clogging.

The Faurecia Gasoline Particulate Filter can be used with all gasoline-powered cars and trucks and is likely to become standard equipment. It is designed to last for the life of the vehicle. Faurecia has developed the GPF and since 2014 has been producing it in series for a premium vehicle manufactured by a major European automaker. Faurecia has brought the GPF to market in advance of impending regulations governing particulate emissions, anticipating that this product will become a standard solution with future regulations. The Gasoline Particulate Filter is an important aspect of Faurecia’s clean-air strategy for its offerings in China.

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Diesel emissions control ASDS for commercial vehicles REAL-WORLD TESTS SHOW FAST-ACTING FAURECIA SYSTEM REMOVES UP TO 95% OF NOX EMISSIONS FROM BUS EXHAUST Recent tests of Faurecia emissions technology in real driving situations have yielded results that are certain to change the course of emissions control for commercial vehicles. In the tests Faurecia’s Ammonia Storage and Delivery System (ASDS), developed with its partner Amminex, converted as much as 95 percent of the nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from city buses into non-polluting nitrogen and water. Vehicle dynamometer tests have confirmed these on-road measurements, and in addition show significant reduction of NO2 - the most toxic part of NOx. These results were achieved without increasing CO2 emissions.

NOx emissions, produced by diesel engines, will become a primary point of focus for China’s auto industry as it seeks to reduce pollutants from passenger and commercial vehicles, because 80 percent of exhaust gases in China come from trucks and buses. The industry in China has not yet standardized on a particular technology for reducing NOx emissions, but ASDS now furnishes the global commercial vehicle industry’s most efficient method of nearly eliminating NOx from the exhaust of buses and trucks.

ASDS for commercial vehicles

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ASDS DEMONSTRATES ITS SUPERIORITY OVER AdBlue® Commercial vehicles use selective catalytic reduction, or SCR, systems to remove NOx, employing a catalytic converter and ammonia. Typically, these systems heat up a mixture of urea and water, known as AdBlue®, which is stored in a tank on the vehicle. When the liquid reaches a sufficiently high temperature, the water evaporates and the urea decomposes to yield ammonia in the exhaust stream to catalytically combine with NOx gases and reduce them to harmless substances. AdBlue® has a number of limitations however. Its temperature must reach 200°C before it will start releasing ammonia. For vehicles like city buses and trash collection trucks, which make many stops along their routes, attaining these temperatures can take a very long time. Moreover, at ambient temperatures below -11° C, AdBlue® can freeze. ASDS, however, replaces AdBlue® with a system that stores pure ammonia within a safe, solid material called AdAmmine™, which was developed by Amminex, a Faurecia partner. AdAmmine™ is a strontium chloride salt that stores ammonia, allowing for precise amounts of ammonia to be released into the exhaust stream and the remainder to be reabsorbed into the salt when the system is turned off. Within ASDS, AdAmmine™ is stored in replaceable cartridges.

ASDS presents a number of advantages over AdBlue®: • AdAmmine™ is a compact, safe and solid material that occupies less space than an AdBlue® system. • ASDS begins dosing ammonia at just 140° C, so NOx emissions control begins much earlier in commercial vehicles equipped with ASDS, rather than AdBlue®. The ammonia also activates faster than AdBlue® under cold starts and doses continuously during city operation at sustained cold engine temperatures. • ASDS has more than twice the storage density of AdBlue® fluid. AdBlue® offers just 183 grams/liter of ammonia, but AdAmmine™ contains 436 grams of ammonia per liter of material. That means, to store 4 kg of Ammonia, a vehicle would require 21.6 liters of AdBlue® but just 9.2 liters of AdAmmine™. • Because of its higher storage density, ASDS cartridges must be changed far less frequently than AdBlue® tanks must be refilled. Consequently, maintenance time is reduced significantly. • Deposits in the exhaust system and freezing issues of AdBlue® are avoided. • Outstanding NOx and NO2 reduction by more efficient use of the SCR, whilst no increase of CO2 emissions.

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RESULTS OF REAL-WORLD TESTS ON CITY BUSES To evaluate the benefits of using ASDS in real-world conditions, the system was retrofitted on buses in three European cities: London (UK), Copenhagen (Denmark) and Buffalo (USA). In each series of tests, ASDS showed remarkable results that ultimately could help produce a major positive impact on China’s air quality efforts.

In Copenhagen, a Euro V-compliant bus with a 9L engine was retrofitted in the same manner, replacing AdBlue® with ASDS. Following fifteen months of operation, the tests found:

The London tests involved a Euro IV doubledecker bus. It was equipped with a 7L engine and an AdBlue® SCR system. The bus was retrofitted by replacing AdBlue® with ASDS, keeping the original Euro IV catalysts. During ten months of operation, analysis of tailpipe emissions showed these results:

• With ASDS, the same bus released just a fourth of that amount, about 1.5 grams of NOx/kWh.

• With AdBlue®, emissions totaled 7.7 g of NOx per kWh, converting 32 percent of the NOx. • With ASDS, emissions were just 1.7 g of NOx per kWh, converting 85 percent of the NOx. • The AdBlue® system would have failed to meet the Euro IV/V standards of 3.5/2 grams of NOx/kWh, but with ASDS the bus more than met both Euro standards. • With ASDS, the bus reduced its NOx emissions by 800 kg per year. “The trial has gone seamlessly from both an operational and engineering side,” reported Metroline London’s Technical manager, Tony Wright, “with very little impact on down time due to minimal servicing.”

• The AdBlue® system left about 6 grams of NOx/kWh in the tail pipe.

• Since the Euro V standard is 2 grams, again AdBlue® failed to meet that measure, but ASDS surpassed the reductions that the standard requires. • The ASDS system enabled the bus to reduce its NOx emissions by 300 kg per year. The bus fleet owner and CEO of Anchersen Aps, Paul Anchersen observed, “ The reoccurring maintenance issues with the AdBlue® system are gone. Instead of refilling with AdBlue® liquid, there is now a weekly exchange of an Amminex cartridge. Simple operation — takes only a minute.”

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The most extraordinary results were obtained in Copenhagen; a city bus was upgraded from Euro V to Euro VI compliance by installing the latest SCR, diesel oxidation catalyst and diesel particulate filter. In this way the bus was optimized for using ASDS during eleven months of operation: • ASDS reduced NOx emissions to just 0.4 grams of NOx/kWh, converting 95 percent of the NOx emissions to water and nitrogen. • That translated to a reduction in NOx emissions of 400 kg per year. In each of these tests, which applied real driving situations for buses in major cities, ASDS demonstrated a superior performance compared with AdBlue ®. In addition: • ASDS left no exhaust system deposits since nothing decomposes in the system. • ASDS eliminated AdBlue® maintenance. • Produced no carbon dioxide emissions of its own, since the system uses no carbon-based compounds and does not utilize active heat management of the exhaust gases. The benefit of ASDS to the environment of major cities becomes clear when the overall effectiveness of ASDS is compared with the AdBlue® system. As an example the demonstration bus in London using AdBlue® would be able to travel just 143 km before emitting 1 kg of NOx. With ASDS, the same bus will travel more than 2,000 km before emitting 1 kg of NOx, 14 times farther than the same bus equipped with AdBlue®.

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HOW THE FAURECIA ASDS WORKS When the engine starts, the ASDS unit is electrically heated and begins releasing pure ammonia on demand in one to three minutes depending on system configuration. (AdBlue® requires 10 to 15 minutes to produce ammonia, depending on ambient temperatures.) Pure ammonia is routed under low pressure to a control unit where an electrical valve pilots the distribution of ammonia into the exhaust line. While the ASDS start-up unit is operating, the main cartridge is heated. Because of its larger size, the warming process is longer, but the start-up unit is always dosing while the main unit is heating. When the main cartridge reaches its operating temperature, it takes over. Inside the SCR converter, ammonia mixes with nitrogen oxides from the exhaust gas, producing non-polluting nitrogen molecules and water vapor. When the engine is turned off, ammonia dosing stops and the remaining pure ammonia cools, and is re-stored in the salt as AdAmmine. At Auto Shanghai 2015, Faurecia is exhibiting a full physical ASDS system that incorporates an AdAmmine™ cartridge, a start-up unit, control unit and ammonia dosing unit. The exhibit also includes a video detailing how ASDS works and an animation demonstrating the advantages of ASDS over AdBlue® when applied to buses.

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EcoFIT Single Module FAURECIA AND CUMMINS EMISSION SOLUTIONS INTEGRATE THREE COMMERCIAL VEHICLE AFTER-TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES TO DEVELOP THE ECOFIT SINGLE MODULE In designing an emissions control system, innovators consistently seek to shrink its size and reduce the complexity of both its installation and operation. Smaller, lighter and simpler systems contribute to overall weight reduction in vehicles, easier vehicle integration and improved fuel efficiency. The EcoFit Single Module is the first in a new generation of emissions control technology that will begin setting a new standard for efficiency and simplicity. The EcoFit Single Module designed by Cummins Emission Solutions incorporates the Faurecia Compact Mixer and is manufactured by Faurecia, replacing the conventional switchback EPA 2013 system for reducing emissions in commercial vehicles with a much simpler system. Traditionally, three different subsystems must work together to remove pollutants from commercial vehicle exhaust systems. Exhaust passes first through a diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) and diesel particulate filter (DPF), then it passes through a long decomposition tube and finally it moves through a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system.

Diesel Oxidation Catalyst

Diesel Particulate Filter

The EcoFIT Single Module integrates all these technologies and capabilities into one product, achieving a package that is up to 60 percent smaller and 40 percent lighter than the system it supersedes. As exhaust gases enter one end of the EcoFit Single Module, they pass through a DOC that removes carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and unburned fuel particulates. The gases then continue to move linearly through a DPF and enter the Compact Mixer, a device developed by Faurecia based on the SCR BlueBox® technology. Diesel exhaust fluid is sprayed into this extremely efficient helical mixing chamber. Thermal and chemical decomposition of the fluid yields ammonia, which is needed in combination with the SCR to reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx) to harmless nitrogen gas and water. The Faurecia compact mixer very evenly distributes ammonia in the exhaust gas for improved NOx reduction, preparing the gases for the next stage, the SCR, where the NOx reduction occurs. Finally, the gases pass through an ammonia slip catalyst, where any excess ammonia is converted to nitrogen.

Compact Mixer

Selective Catalytic Reduction

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BENEFITS OF THE ECOFIT SINGLE MODULE Medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles ranging from 200 to 600 horsepower can operate more efficiently as a result of the benefits inherent in this technology:

• Ve h i c l e i n t e g r a t i o n b e c o m e s simpler, with fewer elements in the system and configurations of the inlets and outlets to consider.

• An integrated design with a single canister eliminates the tube bending, multiple configurations and unique installation requirements of conventional systems; because of the simple design, the exhaust flow through the system is optimized.

• On-board diagnostics (OBD) are more standardized than in previous systems because of the simple configuration of the system. With this reduced variation, setting up the OBD requires less effort.

• With 40 percent less weight and 60 percent less space required, the EcoFit Single Module can help lighten vehicles, improving fuel efficiency and freeing up functional design space. • The single cylinder design of the EcoFit Single Module contributes to improved heat retention across the system. Higher temperatures mean more efficient emissions reduction and improved operation. The system also brings about faster light-off times for better emissions control after cold starts. • With its more innovative design, the EcoFit Single Module reduces backpressure, which translates to better fuel economy.

Designs from Cummins Emission Solutions and Faurecia balance the EcoFit Single Module’s package size, performance and back pressure to optimize exhaust gas flow and engine performance. The EcoFit Single Module is planned for production with its first customers in 2017. At Auto Shanghai 2015, Faurecia is displaying a complete EcoFIT Single Module as an innovation deriving from Faurecia’s commitment to clean air for diesel and gasoline vehicles.

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Air Purifier System FAURECIA AND PHILIPS JOINTLY TACKLE IN-CAR AIR QUALITY, UNVEIL WORLD-CLASS AIR PURIFICATION SYSTEM Faurecia, in partnership with Philips, introduces the Air Purifier System, an industry-first vehicle interior air-purification system for passenger vehicle integration. With the constant growth and predominance of urban air pollution in China, this issue has become a growing concern with lasting effects on one’s health, the main reason why Faurecia engineers worked side by side with Philips to bring to automakers an affordable all-in-one solution that can drastically reduce in-car pollution levels, thus increasing air quality for driver and passengers alike. Faurecia, mindful and attentive to incar wellness of passengers, and deeply committed to Driving Well-Being, sought

out a practical, cost-efficient solution to ensure that the greatest number of people could reduce their breath intake of multiple types of pollutants including PM 2.5, when on-board passenger vehicles. While an average person spends up to 85% of its time indoor, whether at home, at work or in their car, a study conducted by TNS and Philips demonstrates that 88% of people surveyed feel concerned about in-car air quality while 72% would consider buying an air purifier for their car. By addressing this issue with Philips, Faurecia reaffirms its commitment to ensure the wellbeing of all vehicle passengers, and strives to take all measures in order to improve the level of in-car air quality and reduce pollutant levels.

Air Purifier System

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FAURECIA LAUNCHES AIR PURIFIER SYSTEM FOR AUTOMAKERS IN CHINA Faurecia’s Interior Systems and Automotive Seating teams have co-developed for the Air Purifier System, a portfolio of premium integration solutions: instrument panel, parcel shelf or seat backrest depending on which integration solution is chosen by the automaker. This will allow the air to go through a 3-way filter and then be rejected “clean” inside the vehicle. In-car pollutants are removed through a physical filter; the three-layer filtration uses the latest Philips GoPure Clean Air System technology: 1. a pre-filter to capture large particles; 2. a High-Efficiency Particulate Arrestance (HEPA) filter to remove up to 99.9% of fine particles down to 0.3 micrometer such as airborne organisms, dust and pollens, including harmful PM 2.5; 3. a High-Efficiency Selective Absorption (HESA) filter, an exclusive Philips technology, to efficiently decontaminate the air from smells, chemical pollutants and harmful gases such as formaldehyde, benzene, toluene and other Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). When the Air Purifier System is integrated in a vehicle, Faurecia guarantees full cabin filtration for all vehicle occupants, wherever it’s mounted. The proposed Faurecia system is a fullyintegrated solution which meets Chinese market expectations for an air purifier solution installed independently from the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system. The Air Purifier System can then be controlled and monitored by the user separately from the HVAC while ensuring a premium visual effect in the vehicle interior.

Philips, the Chinese market leader in home air purifier systems, which enjoys high reputation among Chinese consumers, has joined forces with Faurecia, which has strong automotive integration capabilities to build this partnership and provide automakers with a solid and premium offering which meets Chinese drivers’ expectations. This effective and user-friendly Air Purifier System, which comes in a stylish and compact design at an affordable cost, aims at purifying the air for all passengers on-board. This reliable and integrated solution can gradually purify the air in a car cabin. This comprehensive yet simple system allows for the filter to be changed periodically by the customer whenever necessary, by means of a LED “filter change” alert light, and most commonly every six months, depending on the condition and efficiency of the system over time. Faurecia is convinced that this partnership with Philips can be the ideal solution to consumers’ growing concerns for healthy on-board air quality. Faurecia will be bringing this Air Purifier System to market for automakers as early as 2016 for a targeted production date of 2018. This industry-first solution is displayed on the Faurecia booth using a dedicated functional instrument panel-mounted mock-up. Other configurations include seat backrest or parcel shelf integration.

Enhanced Life On-Board

Personalized comfort

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Active WellnessTM HEALTHIER IN A HEARTBEAT: FAURECIA ACTIVE WELLNESSTM SEAT KEEPS TRAVELERS FIT In a major advancement for automotive seating capabilities, Faurecia has developed Active WellnessTM, the world’s first seat that detects the traveler’s drowsiness or stress and then takes countermeasures to relieve those conditions. The Faurecia Active WellnessTM seat employs unique types of sensors to detect the heart and breathing rhythm of drivers and/or occupants. It then provides a very specific massage pattern, along with air flow through the seat’s ventilation system, either to reenergize a tired occupant or to relax a stressed individual, making Life on Board a more healthful experience.

A remarkable example of Faurecia’s commitment to “Driving Well Being”, Active WellnessTM is the culmination of many years of Faurecia research into ways to provide personalized comfort that adapts to the needs of each individual. It capitalizes on the car seat’s distinct position as a location for capturing occupants’ emotional status and enhancing their wellbeing. The goal of Active WellnessTM is to make drivers and passengers feel better when they reach their destination than they did at the beginning of the journey.

Active WellnessTM seat

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A SERIES OF INDUSTRY FIRSTS Active WellnessTM is the first “closed-loop” seating system that not only detects an occupant’s physical or mental status but also invokes countermeasures to restore the individual to a healthy driving condition. This capability results from a series of additional firsts that Active WellnessTM offers the auto industry, including:

• The first seating wellness system that can not only manage the noise and vibrations inherent in the driving environment but also provide accurate feedback to mechanical, thermal, pneumatic and computer systems to restore a healthy mental and physical state in drivers and passengers.

• The first biometric sensing system that does not affect comfort or the visual design of the seat. (Seat comfort is a primary decision factor in new-car buying and overall car satisfaction.)

Active WellnessTM sensors gather an extensive range of specifics about the occupant’s heartbeats over time, the behavior and shape of the breathing curve and other data based on the most recent medical research.

THE ACTIVE WELLNESSTM DEMONSTRATOR Active WellnessTM is being unveiled at Auto Shanghai 2015 through a demonstrator. The exhibit shows how this advanced technology collects and employs wellness data, offering four scenarios for visitors who sit in a standard vehicle seat, in view of a 16” touchscreen. • Sensors in the seat are activated to begin reading the occupant’s heart rhythms and breathing patterns. The screen displays heart rate and respiration, although many more biometrics are being calculated at the same time. If these readings indicate the driver is drowsy, a pop-up message asks permission to begin a targeted energizing program. This therapy embraces a specific massage pattern coupled with cooling air from the seat’s ventilation system. • To simulate a high-stress situation, the display will mimic biometric readings of an individual who is under emotional pressure that could affect his or her wellbeing.

In this instance, the system interpolates heart and breathing patterns to produce a “stress index” visible to the occupant and initiates a different type of massage pattern, along with a warming sensation from the ventilated seat. • If the occupant has brought a wearable fitness device (such as Fitbit) into the car, the seating system will use data from that device and its own sensors to gain an understanding of what the individual was doing before entering the car, such as running or working out. The seat uses this information to provide such therapies as high ventilation to reduce skin temperature and various patterns of heating, cooling and massage. These scenarios only begin to suggest the capabilities of Active WellnessTM, which in the future may also prove valuable to first responders at accident scenes in regions where regulations permit transmission of data in such situations.

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A FOUNDATION IN MEDICAL AND SPACE SCIENCE Active WellnessTM is positioned at the leading edge of societal and technology trends showing a consumer preference for personalization and reflexive technologies, sensor-based devices providing individuals with feedback on their physical activity and health. Faurecia began building the foundations of Active WellnessTM five years ago through its work with several academic organizations. The Faurecia team realized that to help people feel better after the trip than when they entered the car, they needed to focus on the individual and real-time comfort, rather than a solution built around the “average” person or a mass audience. Developers would need to know what a driver was feeling at any point in his day if they expected to devise countermeasures to combat negative physical and emotional states. To better understand long term seat comfort, Faurecia worked with Dr. William Marras at The Ohio State University Spine Research Institute. At OSU, researchers developed unique tools to measure comfort in real time, and techniques to reverse discomfort. This experience allowed Faurecia to realize how important real time understanding of occupant status was to seat comfort. This new insight drove Faurecia to partner with the team at NASA who had previously developed sensors for space suit and aerospace applications. As Faurecia searched for ways to acquire vital signs with sensors that do not contact the skin, NASA provided Faurecia a technical review of all the relevant types of sensor research currently underway at institutions across the nation. The search for sensing technology that would not interfere with comfort or seat design led to Hoana Medical, a Honolulu-

based company that has developed noncontact sensors and sophisticated signal processing for monitoring patient vital signs. Faurecia has gained exclusive access to this technology for automotive applications. A leader in Intelligent Medical Vigilance since the company’s inception in 2002, Hoana Medical’s first product, the LifeBed™, was the world’s first totally passive medical monitoring system requiring absolutely no patient compliance. With 10 million hours of hospital use, the LifeBedTM has resulted in thousands of life-saving interventions. More recently, Hoana has focused its attention on home care and wellness applications. Working with its exclusive automotive seating partner, Faurecia, Hoana is combining its advanced sensor technology with Faurecia’s industry expertise to improve the overall driver experience. Faurecia integrates the sensors with the seat system in a distinctive fashion so they work with specific software algorithms and signal processing. The technology allows information to be extracted while the vehicle is moving, despite vibrations from the vehicle and the road. Active WellnessTM offers multiple versions of these solutions, and the system decides which one will be effective for the individual occupant. One current issue within the auto industry centers on the safety of data produced by the new generation of connected cars. All data from Active WellnessTM is stored securely within the seating system and will be subject to the security strategy and philosophy of each automaker. The data resides in the seating system electronic control unit and is employed to modify therapy based on data recorded over time.

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FAR OUT FRONT ON THE ROAD TO PERSONALIZED WELLNESS Faurecia is far ahead of all others in the industry in its ability to produce a personalized wellness seating system. Faurecia will work with each automaker to configure Active WellnessTM for seating systems in particular models, beginning as early as 2018. Faurecia engineers will develop and integrate all the electronic sensors and hardware, as well as the seats themselves. From R&D to assembly, Faurecia can provide every key component, including integration of: • • • • • • • •

Sensors Electronic control unit Pneumatic modules Seat ventilation systems Heating systems Motors Actuators Headrests

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Foam pads Tracks Recliners Backrest Frames Cushion Frames Covers and decoration

Faurecia’s seat electronics product line converts seating components into software and electronic subsystems that are compliant with automaker electronic architecture. Because it requires content level that is sufficiently high to provide active tailoring of the comfort system, Active WellnessTM will appear first in premium vehicles. Faurecia, however, already is considering a version for mass-market cars that simply acquires data, without offering countermeasures, so that the car in this instance becomes a health-related mobile device--a fitness bracelet, of sorts, that never needs to be charged, removed or replaced.

THE IMPORTANCE OF ACTIVE WELLNESSTM Ensuring that drivers are in top physical and emotional condition on the road will become an increasingly critical challenge in the years ahead. People are living—and driving—much longer than they did in the 20th century, and the kind of monitoring and therapy provided by Active WellnessTM can be particularly valuable to older drivers. Moreover, drivers and passengers with chronic conditions— ranging from lower back pain to allergies to obesity—can benefit substantially from the features offered by Active WellnessTM. Conversely, younger passengers will be more active during their time on the road, seeking to stay connected to digital entertainment, games, social media and conversations throughout their journey. The daily deluge of digital interaction can create periodic tension,

and Active WellnessTM can help people more fully enjoy their social environment by relieving stress. Active WellnessTM also can play a role in supporting the trend toward car sharing. As drivers take their places behind the wheel in an unfamiliar seating environment, Active WellnessTM can adapt the seat to the most comfortable position, providing massage and climate therapy that help the driver feel better upon emerging from the car than when the trip began. Faurecia is moving the auto industry toward a day when the car is a place to recharge and become better equipped to handle life’s challenges. Ultimately, Faurecia is seeking to transform the daily commute from a waste of time to a pleasant and useful transition time for drivers and passengers.

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Advanced Seating Kinematics One of the most intriguing of Faurecia’s latest innovations is a seat that folds flat at the push of a button and then re-opens fully when the button is tapped again. Faurecia is developing this electrically powered E-Folding Seat. Auto Shanghai 2015 visitors have the opportunity to see this system in operation on a demonstrator at the Faurecia booth. Previous self-folding technologies have required occupants to lift the folded seat back into position manually. The E-Folding Seat, however, quickly collapses flat when an occupant pushes the button and unfolds itself and locks into place again with another push of the same button.

This powered system is appropriate for second- or third-row seats. Over the past three years, Faurecia has created seat electronics teams in France, Germany, North America and China. The seat-electronics prowess of these teams has produced a generic folding mechanism that Faurecia is proud to introduce to China at Auto Shanghai 2015.

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Innovative Virtual Configurators With personalization at the heart of auto buyers’ vehicle purchasing criteria, Faurecia has developed a comprehensive range of interior and exterior technologies. Over the past five years, Faurecia design teams have integrated new technologies and materials to offer the widest range of diversity in order to allow for almost unlimited customization, a perfect answer to the general trend for mass-market yet individualized vehicles. Faurecia is the one-and-only supplier that can provide a full interior and seating experience as well as a full exterior that meets all customer expectations, ranging from leading interior decorative solutions to a portfolio of seating options and the broadest range of exterior decorative solutions. They are featured on the Faurecia booth as: • Virtual Interactive Collection (Interior, Seating); • Exterior Decorative Vision

Exterior Decorative Vision

Virtual Interactive Collection

The two virtual market-unique configurators allow users to delve deep into the possibilities offered by Faurecia’s engineers and designers, giving them a unique, immersive experience that will showcase the full portfolio of new solutions and concepts in real-time, based on two 55-inch 4K HD multimedia touch-screens. Linked to a broad Collections wall, users will be able to link senses to this immersion to fully blend in for a unique, creative experience, and match what they see in the configurators with physical proof-points, in order to create a physical relation between the virtual and the real world. With five walls of 15 different surfaces of fabrics, leather, plastic, wood, metal… in a wide variety of textures and colors, a comprehensive range of personalization is now available for automakers to choose from. We’re excited to share with you the result of our vision, so come and see for yourself and explore the world of Faurecia’s designers!

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Deco Display FAURECIA DECO DISPLAY ADDS A PHYSICAL THIRD DIMENSION TO VEHICLE SCREENS While drivers and passengers may be able to view a world of information and entertainment in today’s vehicles, that world is flat. The surface of current screens is essentially a sheet of glass, and that means occupants are seeing images on only a twodimensional plane. However, Driving WellBeing demands visual displays that replicate and blend with all the twists and curves of the real world. Therefore, at Shanghai Auto 2015 Faurecia – in cooperation with Magneti Marelli – is introducing the first human-machine interface that integrates a fusion of a decorative layer with a display. Deco Display merges plastics and electronics into smart “plastronics” components that are incorporated into what Faurecia calls “the first inch” of the HMI surface.

Ultimately, this layer will be integrated with a totally flexible capacitive foil behind it to enable touch control. This combination of advanced electronics and plastic will move the touch surface from the glass screen to the overlying decoration, allowing for a multi-dimensional shape with images and icons on the top of the overlay surface. Deco Display reduces the HMI display’s thickness, improves its performance and makes it more decorative by blending the overlay color and design with the decoration that surrounds it when the screen is off. The system is applicable to any type of vehicle, from entry level to midmarket to premium class.

The top surface of the 8-inch-diagonal display consists of a curved, transparentplastic decorative overlay.

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NO GLARE, NO REFLECTIONS, NO MORE FLAT SCREENS The curved overlay of Deco Display is made from transparent poly-methyl methacrylate (PMMA) thermoplastic that can be painted or covered with a decorative anti-glare or anti-reflection film to significantly improve the optical performance of the screen while making the display more decorative. Soon, Faurecia will add its capacitive film between the cover and the display screen to make it a touchscreen. Automakers currently favor switches and buttons for controls, but the capacitive film coupled with overlay can extend HMI technology to a completely switchless center stack that relies on touch and haptic feedback that uses various types of vibrations to indicate operation of different

functions. In the decade ahead, distinctive haptic feedback will become as identifiable with specific vehicle brands as the unique switch clicks of today’s vehicles. The Deco Display with decorative curved overlay and anti-glare/anti-reflection films will be ready for automakers to begin integrating into their vehicles at the end of 2016. The addition of the capacitive foil for touch controls in Deco Display will be available in 2018 for vehicles produced in 2019.

NEW DESIGN FREEDOM The Deco Display system is applicable to current TFT (thin-film transistor) LCD screens as well as to the thinner, lighter AMOLED (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode) screens that will begin appearing on modelyear 2016 vehicles, as well as to any other type of display screen. AMOLED screens, just 1.3 mm thick, enable the display’s total thickness to be reduced to just 6 or 8 millimeters.

Faurecia developed the plastic curved overlay and vision-improving films, working with a partner to integrate the complete plastronics system. Faurecia is an industry leader in managing plastic and decoration, with special abilities to paint the Deco Display covers to complement the surrounding décor and to use laser etching methods to create pictograms.

Compared with today’s flat-glass displays, the plastronics-based Deco Display gives designers the freedom to bend the display’s shape while optimizing optical performance. Future designs are likely to incorporate switchless, buttonless interaction with control functions on the center stack, console and instrument panel. The next step will be to add touch capabilities to natural materials, such as wood and metals, using even more advanced technology that will complement plastronics.

With Deco Display, Faurecia offers a new way of interacting with vehicles through seamless 3D fusion of decorative parts with displays and controls, a first step toward recognizing the shape of things to come.

MEDIA CONTACTS

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FAURECIA GROUP Olivier Le Friec

FAURECIA CHINA Xiaoli Zheng

Head of Media Relations

Senior Communications Manager

+33 (0)1 72 36 72 58 +33 (0)6 76 87 30 17 [email protected]

+86 158 0058 9080 [email protected]

Faurecia is one of the world’s largest automotive equipment suppliers with four Business Groups: Automotive Seating, Emissions Control Technologies, Interior Systems and Automotive Exteriors. In 2014, the Group posted total sales of €18.8 billion. At December 31, 2014, Faurecia employed 100,000 people in 34 countries at 330 sites and 30 R&D centers. Faurecia is listed on the NYSE Euronext Paris stock exchange and trades in the U.S. over-the-counter (OTC) market. For more information, visit: faurecia.com

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