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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedFord spills the beans on car seats; Soy-based cushions cut CO2, costs.(News)(Ford Motor Co.)(carbon dioxide)
Automotive News, March, 2008 by Chappell, Lindsay
Byline: Lindsay Chappell
Ford Motor Co. has come to a conclusion about building autos: Petroleum is dirty and expensive; soybeans are good.
Just five years ago, the automaker began a modest experiment to make seat cushions with a patented soybean oil product it calls soy polyol. It worked. Now the notion has sprouted.
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The company is using the resulting soybean-based foam on seats in the 2008 Ford Mustang, F-150 pickup and Expedition and the Lincoln Navigator SUVs. In 2009, three more models also will contain the soybean cushions, including the Ford Escape crossover, said ...
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