Cars
The Seats in Your Next Luxury Car May Be Made From Soybeans and Eucalyptus
For high-end automakers like Land Rover and Audi, sustainable and animal-free textiles are the brave new world of interior car design.
Carbon fiber used to be the ultimate tell when it came to showing just how much money you could throw at your car’s interior. An expansive dash, custom-carved door panels, a $1,000 steering wheel in that unmistakable black cross-hatch—and the Nappa leather seats that often pair with it—telegraphed to anyone who cared to look that this was an expensive, sporty, and unique whip owned by someone who was possibly important, and at least interesting.
But now it’s time for plants.