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, ...

AUBURN HILLS, MICH. — All roads lead to California — at least when it comes to the creation of a complex plastic fuel tank system called the Tank Advanced Process Technology. In the 1990s, the Golden ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio market research analysts forecast the global automotive plastic fuel tank market to grow at a CAGR of more than 4% during the period 2018-2022, according to their ...

Perhaps surprisingly, the performance demands placed on fuel tanks used in extended-range electric vehicles (EREVs) can be higher than those used than in conventional internal combustion engine ...

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 ...

Two Japanese auto suppliers and Toyota Motor Corp. have joined forces to create a new plastic fuel-tank maker with operations in Japan and California. The venture reflects a growing interest in ...

Green cars are very popular on the market today with fuel prices soaring and the hefty rebates the government is offering on electric and hybrid vehicles. One of the keys to getting hybrids that have ...