It wasn’t all that long ago when owning a car was a real hands-on experience. Carburetors, points and condensers, spark plugs that only lasted a few thousand miles, single-weight oil and ...

A great deal of innovative design and materials work is going into vehicle fuel tank systems. It is area that is coming under increasing pressure from legislation on both sides of the Atlantic.

Dear Tom and Ray: You recently answered a question about whether it's harmful to let your gas tank run down to empty. You said it's not harmful to the car, and it won't cause any damage. Eric Peters, ...

Editor's note: An earlier version mischaracterized the qualities of the plastic fuel tanks. All roads lead to California -- at least when it comes to TI Automotive's plastic fuel tank system, Tank ...

Four-wheel-drive owners, alongside most other automobile owners, pumped gas into their steel tanks for roughly $.30 per gallon, and Kaiser-Jeep wanted to change one part of that. Engineers at the ...

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The first plastic fuel tank from Plastic Omnium for the growing hybrid vehicle market will initially be delivered in December 2016 for Hyundai's plug-in hybrid vehicles in South Korea. The French ...

TI Automotive has developed two new plastic fuel tanks capable of meeting California's rigid vehicle-emission requirements. Volume production of the UK supplier's complete vapor recovery system and so ...

Air Products & Chemicals Inc. has entered into a joint venture with West German and Canadian companies to make plastic gasoline tanks for the automotive market in North America. Other partners in the ...

The automotive industry has been utilizing steel fuel tanks, since the past few years. Although there have been issues, such as corrosion of steel tanks, failure of tanks in cases of collisions, etc., ...