Many car manufacturers and EV startups are introducing a concept where the glazing looks like one large window rather than separated glazing parts. It’s designed to appear as one extended piece of glass that runs from the windshield through the roof to the rear window. This design also allows for more sunshine to enter the car and connects the occupants more with their surroundings.

Using regular automotive glass in such glass designs requires countermeasures against the sun’s rays entering the car’s interior. In addition, because roof glass is generally grey privacy glass with low visible light transmittance, the connection with the high transmittance glass used on the windshield looks like a line divider, which may detract from the otherwise sophisticated glass design.

Once a design has been created for the car windows, it is crucial to visualize the design glass in the vehicle concept. Our VR tool supports visualizing the image of equipping a car with S-LEC™ Wide Gradient Film to see how it looks to adopt different gradient designs to the glazing.

Rear Window

S-LEC™ Wide Gradient Film provides advanced design for the rear glass window.

Continuous gradation is also possible from the windshield to the roof and rear glass. The gradation from front to back gives the car a futuristic image.

The automotive exterior is one of the first things consumers see. Out of the exterior, almost 30% is covered by glass, and the market trend shows that this number is increasing.

Glass in the automotive industry becomes one of the very important items which affects the entire design. S-LEC™ PVB interlayer film for laminated glass provides a variety of colours and gradients which support harmonisation of the entire car exterior and interior design.