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Ford licensing its soy-foam seat technology

Dec 17th 2007 1:57PM - 0 Comments

Last July, Ford showed off their newly-developed soy-foam seats. The new seat material has since gone into production in several 2008 models including the Mustang, F-150 and others. Ford has now reached a licensing agreement with John Deere and Sears ...

Breaking: Ford and Lear introducing soy foam seats on 2008 Mustang

Jul 12th 2007 10:09AM - 0 Comments

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/environment/What_s_going_to_be_THE_green_vehicle_of_2008_How_bout_the_Ford_Mustang'; The Ford Mustang is not a car that typically appears on this site, but Ford has some big news for the 2008 model. Just a couple of ...

Ford's bio-foam and bio-plastics: Plants aren't just for fuel anymore

Jul 11th 2007 10:20AM - 0 Comments

There's been plenty of discussion of using biofuels to replace petroleum-based fuels in motor vehicles for the past few years. But fuels are hardly the only thing that we use petroleum for. All those plastic bags and blister packs and toys are made ...

Ford awarded Green Choice Award from Natural Health magazine

May 10th 2009 3:29PM - 6 Comments

2010 Mercury Milan Hybrid - Click above for high-res gallery Natural Heath magazine has decided to honor Ford Motor Company with its Green Choice award. The magazine cited the automaker for its efforts to produce more environmentally friendly ...

Lear introducing SoyFoam for automotive interiors

Dec 9th 2006 9:52AM - 0 Comments

Automotive interiors typically contain about 30 to 40 pounds of foam and most of that is made from petro-chemicals. That makes it a prime candidate for alternative materials for both weight and cost reduction. The cost reduction is particularly ...

Ford announces greener anti-corrosion technology

Aug 31st 2007 8:04AM - 0 Comments

Ford has announced a new and greener method to apply anti-corrosion treatment to its vehicles. Ford claims that the method cuts water use in half and eliminates 90 percent of the sludge that is usually produced. The new technology, which is being ...

Reducing our dependence of foreign oil with our car seats?

Apr 20th 2007 10:31AM - 1 Comment

I plan on sharing some interesting bits of information that I got from some of the men behind the soy industry in general, the United Soybean Board, while I was at the SAE Congress in Detroit soon. But, one tidbit is that I was able to personally ...

Bio-plastics could almost completely replace petroleum plastics

Nov 9th 2009 1:02PM - 9 Comments

Aside from fuels, one of the biggest uses of petroleum is in the production of polymer materials like plastics. Just as automakers have attempted to reduce the use of petroleum-based fuels, researchers are also working on reducing the other dino ...

Ford says you can eat interiors, and expands the idea

Dec 12th 2007 11:12AM - 5 Comments

Ford is announcing that the 2008 Ford Mustang, F-150, Expedition and Lincoln Navigator will have soy-based seat foam, which Ford claims will deliver a carbon reduction of 605,000 pounds per year. The company also announced that the 2008 Escape uses ...

Tonight's Big Ideas episode remids us about Ford's Model U, the plant-based car

Jun 19th 2007 4:07PM - 0 Comments

Just a quick note on tonight's episode of Big Ideas for a Small Planet, which has a segment on Ford Model U concept car. It seems like each week this show deals with another car or group or idea we feature here on AutoblogGreen - if there's any show ...

Toyota will use "ecological plastics" in new Prius interior

Dec 17th 2008 7:11PM - 0 Comments

Click for a gallery of the 2010 Prius When the new Prius debuts next month at the Detroit Auto Show, its interior will feature significant use of so-called "ecological plastics." These are polymer materials derived from biomass oils rather than ...

Lincoln MKR concept on ABG a second time on one day? Crazy

Jan 2nd 2007 1:55PM - 1 Comment

Ford is calling the luxury touches build into their new Lincoln MKR concept vehicle "guilt free" thanks to a few environmentally friendly processes used to make the deluxe interior. But can some soy seats really make driving a luxury vehicle green? ...

Green is the new frontier for car designers

Jul 10th 2008 2:59PM - 3 Comments

Click above for more shots of the Lotus Eco Elise concept Toyota's Prius has always been a love-it or hate-it design, and as it was restyled in 2002, the machine took its now iconic shape to even further extremes. To many a car designer's surprise, ...

Reducing GHG emissions by producing bioplastics alongside ethanol

Aug 19th 2008 7:52AM - 2 Comments

Aside from metals such as iron, steel and aluminum, perhaps the most common material in cars is plastic. Most of the plastic made today is derived from petroleum. Besides the raw materials used, a lot pf greenhouse gases are produced in the ...

Ford adds wheat straw plastic to a small corner of the 2010 Flex

Nov 11th 2009 4:56PM - 6 Comments

Ford's wheat straw bio-filled polypropylene - click to enlarge Soy seats aren't Ford's only way to introduce as many bio-materials as possible into a production vehicle. See also: Mazda's biofabric and Toyota's "ecological plastics." Ford ...

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