Mercedes-Benz has become the world’s first car manufacturer to offer a fully vegan-certified interior, in partnership with The Vegan Society, as part of its latest electric GLC model featuring EQ…
    • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Hard to tell. Sounds like they’re perhaps using biopolymers in place of leather (so pleather, but derived from plants), but it seems like the only real requirement is that these “premium” interiors don’t use animal products.

      The article doesn’t really go into any significant detail about what has actually been replaced, and what it’s been replaced with.

  • Tomtits@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I’ve got a 2000 Sprinter and that’s vegan as there’s no leather.

    Unless you class plastic as non-vegan

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Pfft, that’s nothin’. All my old cars’ interiors are “vegan” too, because that’s what happens when you just have cloth seats to begin with!