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Luxury Without Leather: Will Vegan Cars Gain Popularity?

Last updated: Sep 20, 2019 at 10:16AM
Published on: Nov 28, 2016 by tgriffith

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Do a Google search for “vegan car” and the first result is likely to involve Tesla. The company is the first luxury automaker to offer a 100 percent animal-free vehicle. That, of course, means no leather seats, no leather steering wheel, no leather gear shifter, and no animal products in the glue that holds everything together.

Luxury cars have become synonymous with leather, but for people who are compassionate about the treatment of animals, the idea of leather can be repulsive. It’s a growing community of folks but the world’s most prominent automakers have yet to conform to their wishes and build cars that are truly animal-free.

One writer spent at least four months trying to sort out which cars use animal products and which don’t. His results are surprising because so few vehicles are completely free of animal skins or byproducts.

How likely is that to change?

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Filed Under: Car News, Green Updates Tagged With: animal products in cars, cars with no leather, leather in cars, vegan cars

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