#Ford is committed to reducing our planetary impact. Watch how we’re testing making vehicle plastics from CO2.https://t.co/YkInvj7j6T
— Ford Drive Green (@FordDriveGreen) May 17, 2016
In the next five years, Ford researchers say they'll be pulling car parts out of thin air -- in a manner of speaking.
See, air isn't actually all that "thin." It's filled with nitrogen, oxygen, argon, carbon dioxide, water vapor, and other gasses. We're all swimming in a dense soup of atmosphere. Swipe your hand through the air, and feel the wind slipping through your fingers. That's all gaseous molecules.
It's that fourth compound on the list that has been causing environmental concerns. Carbon dioxide (CO2) traps the heat of the sun, just like the glass in a greenhouse. Industrial manufacturing, and burning gasoline releases a lot of CO2 into the atmosphere every year, and companies like Ford have been working hard to find ways to mitigate their emissions.
Ford has many driving options that lower fuel consumption, like the efficient EcoBoost engine, available for many models in the lineup, as well as hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and battery-electric vehicles. However, rather than simply focus on putting less carbon into the atmosphere, Ford is learning to take carbon out of the atmosphere.
The automaker has been working with Novomer to make plastic and foam vehicle components out of carbon dioxide. Novomer collects the CO2 from industrial sites, and converts it into durable, useable materials where it can remain sequestered away and out of the air.
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