Chinese automaker Seres, the company behind the Aito vehicle brand, has been granted a patent for an in-vehicle toilet. Yes, you are reading it right. It’s a toilet for your car. The Patent number CN224104011U was filed in April 2025 and officially authorized on April 10, 2026.
While the news might seem amusing to many, the design is actually pretty clever. A toilet body sits hidden beneath the car seat, mounted on a sliding rail system. When you need it, you use the rail system to pull it out.
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When you are done, you slide it back under the seat. The whole thing is designed to take up as little space as possible, which matters a lot in small cars and electric vehicles where battery packs already eat up most of the room under the floor.
Is this really new?
Sort of. According to CarNewsChina,
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