Bentley’s New Airline Seat Specification, The Most Wellbeing-Focused Car Seat In The World

Providing the finest rear accommodation since the Mulsanne, Bentley’s new Airline Seat Specification of the Bentayga EWB.

The most advanced seat ever fitted to a car, it comes with the world’s first auto climate sensing system, advanced postural adjustment technology and 22 ways of adjustment.

First off, the auto climate introduces the world’s first seat surface sensing system for thermal comfort that uses a suite of sensors embedded in the Airline Seat.

This feature has been developed to constantly measure both passenger contact surface temperature and humidity level, to an incredible accuracy of 0.1°C every 25 milliseconds.

Suggestively, its optimal surface temperature target can be controlled through seven settings (neutral and six others) by the passengers.

Those seven set points are not linearly spaced, and have been derived from extensive passenger testing in combination with leading research.

To break it down, the sensors measure and produce live data to determine what seat heating, cooling and ventilation levels are required to achieve the best comfort temperature. 

At the initial phase, the seat works efficiently to deliver the desired temperature, bringing the seat heating and ventilation systems as quickly as possible.

Said system then maintains the optimal thermal comfort throughout the journey with micro adjustments to the seat thermal system to maintain the setpoint. 

In trials, it was determined that a human only notices a change in surface temperature between 1-2°C, as such the system is always monitoring actual temperature to a much more detailed level.

Live data allows the system to activate before the passenger even knows it is required, providing an intelligent and autonomous experience, where manual control is no longer needed.

Meaning the system knows what the passenger is going to need before they would know themselves.

Notably, the auto climate system uses existing seat heating technologies, but a new seat ventilation fan has been developed that can move approximately 80 percent more air than the previous system. 

Less power is consumed than the current seat climate system and in Auto Climate mode the overall power consumption of the complete system is about 40 percent less than being manually activated.

Secondly, the Postural Adjustment Technology developed together with specialists, Comfort Motion Global (CMG), is the next step further in providing a proactive anti-fatigue system.

It does so by subtly adjusting the contact pressure between body and seat through soft pneumatic activation zones.

Ingeniously, the system goes beyond the 2D motions typical of adjustable seats, and employs a three-dimensional twist to relieve pressure points. 

These motions are controlled by complex algorithms that have been developed in collaboration with a Chiropractor who deals with clients who experience discomfort on long car journeys.

As such, through subtle changes in the seat surface contact zones, body tissues that have been under pressure are relieved, and in other areas, pressure is then applied.

Particularly in the lower back and lower limbs, reducing discomfort, therefore passengers remain more alert and focused for a much longer period.

Other than that, the EWB Airline Seats have optimised seat contact profiles as well as a complex seat interlayer construction, tuned to work in perfect harmony with the chassis of the car. 

With both of these functions working together, the ride comfort is smooth and passengers are isolated from road vibration.

Plus, the adjustable profiles can morph to suit different customer shapes and build, which also comes with an adjustable leg and footrest feature.

Additionally, the seats also provide further cushion and backrest bolster adjustment, cushion extension and electric headrest height adjustment.

Last but not least, the 22-way adjustment of the Airline Seat Specification has an incredible suite of technology beneath its handcrafted leather surfaces.

An array of 12 silent electric motors delivers 22 ways of adjustment in the seat along the user, to shape the seat to suit their body shape and also to work or rest.

All of the motors are joined by three intelligent pneumatic valve electronic control units, and the combination of motors and valves is overseen by a master ‘Seat Motion & Wellbeing’ ECU.

That said, with initial customer uptake of 50 percent for the Airline Seat specification, the Bentayga EWB demonstrates a new benchmark in wellbeing features. 

Outstandingly providing the most comfortable experience possible for those travelling on extraordinary journeys.