---
title: "Jaguar Wants to Coat the Interior of Land Rovers With OLED Screens"
description: "Jaguar is working on futuristic new tech that could turn interior panels of your next car into smart, color-changing, and interactive screens."
date: "2019-11-06"
modified: "2019-11-06"
authors:
  - name: "Victor Tangermann"
    job_title: "Senior Editor"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/jaguar-car-interior-oled-screens"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
tags:
  - "car interiors"
  - "electric cars"
  - "jaguar"
  - "Self-driving cars"
  - "the digest"
---

# Jaguar Wants to Coat the Interior of Land Rovers With OLED Screens

![Jaguar is working on futuristic new tech that could turn interior panels of your next car into smart, color-changing, and interactive screens.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/jaguar-interior-cars-oled-screens.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Jaguar\</em\>*

## Body Work

British automaker Jaguar is working on coating the entire interior of Land Rovers with smart, color-changing, interactive screens. The tech could not only make future electric cars more customizable than ever, but could also save weight for a better range.

"Healthcare, aerospace, consumer technology and military industries are already harnessing the benefits of structural electronics and our research is leading the way in the automotive sector by bringing it into the cabin for the first time," said Land Rover Electrical Research Technical Manager Ashutosh Tomar in a press release.

## Mona LESA Overdriver

The Lightweight Electronics in Simplified Architecture (LESA) project takes advantage of existing printable electronics technology already used in flexible OLED TVs, according to the press release.

Jaguar envisions these smart panels to enable things like "customizable interior ambient lighting systems, body controls, wraparound button-less dashboards and advanced fabric/leather heated steering wheels," according to the release.

## Reducing Weight

The idea is also to reduce the weight of in-car electronics, allowing for more circuitry to be used in future electric cars without affecting their range too much.

So far, the carmaker has built a control panel prototype — but what exact purpose it fulfills or when it will make its way to production vehicles is still unclear.

**READ MORE:** [Jaguar Land Rover's AMOLED bodywork will change your car's color in seconds](<https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/dark-mode-for-your-car-amoled-panels-will-let-you-change-paint-color-in-seconds>) \[*Tech Radar*\]

**More on the future of car interiors:** *[This Electric Car Uses Moss in the Dashboard to Filter Air](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/electric-car-moss-dashboard>)*

## Author
I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida.

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