Volvo Car Corporation is the only automobile manufacturer with a complete model range featuring textiles certified to the Oeko-Tex standard. The textile standard was introduced in the early 1990s by a partnership of 14 textile research and test institutions in Europe and Japan as a response to the growing demand from consumers for textiles which posed no risk to health.
During the development of a new vehicle, engineers subject prototypes to intense sun lamps, designed to bring the vehicle's interior temperature up to 65-degrees Celsius in an effort to measure emissions from interior components.