At FORVIA, design plays a central role in reducing automotive emissions and advancing circularity. Smart Dimming & Green HDR and Power Beam headlamp housing show how strategic material choices, lightweight architecture and circularity-driven design can lower vehicle weight, reduce carbon footprint and improve resource efficiency throughout production.

Smart Dimming and Green HDR: Circular Economy in Display Systems

Smart Dimming and Green HDR reduce energy use and extend component life through advanced image processing. Smart Dimming cuts backlight power by up to 30%, while Green HDR lowers consumption by 20%, reducing environmental impact and operating costs.

By minimizing LED zones and standardizing designs, Green HDR simplifies hardware and supports reuse and recycling. Smart Dimming maintains image quality with less thermal stress, prolonging component lifespan. Both solutions enable modular integration across platforms, reducing tooling, packaging and CO₂ emissions. Future efforts focus on increasing recycled content and further optimizing energy efficiency.

Rethinking Headlamp Housing

The Power Beam product family replaces traditional aluminum die-cast housings with corrosion-resistant plastic, reducing component weight by 45%. The redesign required new approaches to heat dissipation using integrated cooling fins and improved optical efficiency to reduce power demand.

This substitution reduces the headlamp CO₂ footprint significantly while maintaining performance standards and lowering production costs by up over 50%.

Concept as the Starting Point

Both the Smart Dimming & Green HDR and Power Beam product families integrate an eco-design approach from the earliest concept stage, embedding environmental performance right from the beginning of the design phase. This approach links engineering decisions to measurable outcomes and supports FORVIA’s goal of reducing Scope 3 emissions by 90% by 2045.

These innovations demonstrate the Blue Effect in action—where every design decision contributes to a collective effort that advances sustainable mobility.