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Innovations
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Cars and the Environment: Forming Lasting Bonds Lance Frazer Abstract
Photo credit: PhotoDisc Most anyone would agree that one of the most important aspects of people's love affairs with their automobiles is the color of the vehicle. Whether vibrant red, stately gray, or stealthy black, the color of a car says something about its driver (or at least, advertising has convinced us it does) . So making the color last is an important consideration in automobile manufacturing. But color is not the only consideration. Equally if not more important is fuel efficiency and emissions ratings. Today, a new process that enables auto body parts made of lightweight and environmentally friendly polypropylene plastic to be permanently coated with paint--once an impossibility--may allow vehicle manufacturers to appeal to car buyers on both the aesthetic and economic levels.
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