article thumbnail

Ford Increasing Use of Renewable and Recyclable Materials in Vehicles

Green Car Congress

Ford is increasing the use of renewable and recyclable materials such as the soy and bio-based seat cushions and seatbacks on the 2010 Ford Taurus. The industry’s first eco-friendly cylinder head cover is used in the 2010 Ford Fusion and Escape. Ford’s sustainable materials strategy. Click to enlarge. liter Duratec engine.

Ford 218
article thumbnail

DOE selects 13 HPC4Mfg projects to advance applied science and technology in manufacturing; aluminum rolling and solid-state batteries

Green Car Congress

Other projects selected for awards are: 3M - This project will optimize the design of emissive films on building windows for cooling via modeling of glass-bead-filled polymers. Additionally, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory provide computing cycles to support this program.

article thumbnail

DOE awards $1.2M to four vehicle and hydrogen projects under High Performance Computing for Materials (HPC4Mtls) Program

Green Car Congress

The HPC4Mtls Program is part of a larger HPC4 Energy Innovation Initiative, a DOE-wide effort comprising the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), the Office of Fossil Energy (FE), the Office of Nuclear Energy, and the national laboratories. Ford Motor Company will partner with Oak Ridge National Laboratory on this project.

Hydrogen 207
article thumbnail

DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

Green Car Congress

Earth Energy Renewables, LLC. Advanced Sensing for Characterization and Sorting of Non-Recyclable Plastics Using Sensor Fusion with Artificial Intelligence. ASU’s Polymer-enhanced Cyanobacterial Bioproductivity (AUDACity). University of North Dakota. Global Algae Innovations. UHV Technologies. University of Cincinnati.

Waste 186
article thumbnail

Ford Adds Soy Foam Seat Cushions To Explorer; Nearly 100% of North American Lineup to Feature Soy Foam By End of 2010

Green Car Congress

In addition to Explorer, the Fusion, Fiesta, F-250/F-350 Super Duty, Mercury Milan and Lincoln MKZ will get soy foam by the end of 2010. Soy foam has helped Ford reduce its annual petroleum oil usage by more than 3 million pounds, and is up to 24% more renewable than petroleum-based foam. Earlier post.)

2010 170
article thumbnail

Ford and Ontario Bio-Car Initiative Develop Wheat Straw-Reinforced Plastic; First Application in 2010 Flex

Green Car Congress

We have found a practical automotive usage for a renewable resource that helps reduce our dependence on petroleum, uses less energy to manufacture, and reduces our carbon footprint. The 2010 Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan Hybrids feature 85% post-industrial yarns and 15 percent solution-dyed yarns. liter V-6 2010 Ford Escape.

2010 246
article thumbnail

MIT Energy Initiative announces 2014 seed grant awards

Green Car Congress

Assistant professor Niels Holten-Andersen of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and assistant professor Jeremiah Johnson of the Department of Chemistry are working to combine metallosupramolecular assembly with polymer networks to create a new class of hybrid metal-organic materials.

MIT 210