Ford is considering using bamboo as an automotive raw material. Will you buy it?

[Netease Smart News, April 15] Ford is considering using bamboo as a raw material, which is no different from the 2008 concept car Baggoo.

Bamboo is a favorite of pandas and a hardy plant. But can bamboo really be used to produce cars? This may sound strange, but automaker Ford announced on Thursday (April 13) that it will try to use bamboo in car interiors.

Trying new materials in cars is not new to Ford. They also used wool, tequila skin, and even the unwanted tomato skin in the Heinz ketchup factory.

Ford said it is considering combining bamboo and plastic to make automotive parts such as cables and cooling fans.

Janet Yin said: "The bamboo is amazing." She is an engineer at the Ford China Research Center in Nanjing. "Bamboo is tough, flexible, and renewable. It has abundant resources in China and many other places in Asia." Bamboo's tensile strength is comparable to metal, even better than some metals. In some parts of South America it is used to make simple highway bridges.

More and more automakers tend to think of biomaterials as a substitute for renewable plastics. Ford is one of them. For example, sugar cane and volcanic rock gray sound like high-grade shampoo ingredients, but in fact, Hyundai (Hyundai) used this material in certain automotive fabrics.

However, there are examples of failures. Toyota used soy products on cars and US owners filed suit this month, claiming that the material was eaten by rats and caused thousands of dollars in damage.

Janet Yin said that when using new biomaterials or renewable materials in automobiles, they must prove that they are as good as the original material, and even better and more durable. She said: “When I tell people how we use sustainable, renewable materials to make cars, we usually encounter two attitudes: either we really appreciate my idea or we just want to ensure the quality of the new material. To prove to them the reliability of the new materials, they will be successfully convinced."

In addition, Ford claims that it has recovered approximately 25 million plastic water bottles from landfills for use in the manufacture of seat fabrics in automobiles.

(Source/New York Post Translator/Machine Editor/Small Ka)

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