Called the "Climate Control Seat" system, it was first adopted by the Ford Motor Company and introduced as an option on the model year 2000 Lincoln Navigator in 1999.

Currently, the company is a developer and marketer of thermal management technologies for heating and cooling and temperature control devices for a variety of industries.

[8] Gentherm's thermoelectric technologies are based on the Peltier Effect, the 1834 discovery that passing an electric current through a sandwich of two dissimilar metals will make them hot on one side and cold (the lack of heat) on the other.

[9] Since 2005, Gentherm has been partnering with BMW[10] and Ford[10] on a project that is backed by the U.S. Department of Energy[10][11][12] focused on the development of an automotive thermoelectric generator (ATEG) that converts waste exhaust heat into electrical power based on the Seebeck Effect.

[14] In December 2014, the company announced that it will open a new automotive plant in Prilep, North Macedonia, and that will employ 1,000 people.