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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fuel tanks and fuel systems will fuel the next round in the market war over the physical makeup of new vehicles on the road. Environmentally, plastic has the early upper hand when it comes to ...

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., ...

PITTSBURGH (Nov. 13, 2:55 p.m. ET) — It took the automotive industry about five years to develop multilayer fuel tanks that could meet California's LEV II (low-emission vehicle) regulations in the ...