Ford working with OSU on sustainable alternative rubber sources for non-tire vehicle applications

Green Car Congress
By mmillikinAug 6, 2015, 3:10 pm204 pts
While there are a number of efforts underway explroing the use of sustainable, natural rubber alternatives for use in tires (earlier post, earlier post, earlier post), cars use a great deal of rubber for non-tire applications as well; the Ford Fiesta, for example, contains about 3 kg of the material, excluding…

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