 A SEAT car manufacturing plant in Spain has started making automated ventilators with adapted windscreen wiper motors to help the Spanish healthcare systems efforts to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Matorell factory near Barcelona had until recently produced the SEAT Leon cars, but is now making ventilators following a week in which 50 SEAT employees helped to design 13 separate prototypes before settling on a definitive model. SEAT has launched several initiatives since the start of the outbreak geared around producing material and devices in high demand by hospitals battling the virus, which has now claimed 8,189 