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What do you get when you join a 1.0-liter Ford EcoBoost® engine to a standard pitching machine? In the name of science, action star Dolph Lundgren and Ford teamed up to pursue just that question. And the answer? You get the EcoBoost®-powered Ballistic Ball Launcher: part ultimate-sports-machine, part possible-weapon, 100 percent should-not-be-tried-at-home. Check it out in the video below for some good laughs, then come see us at O’Daniel Ford Inc. to see the EcoBoost® engines in their natural habitats: inside the models of the great Ford lineup.

#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…