Ford spills Coca-Cola technology all over its new car seats

Ford is using the same material used to produce Coca-Cola's "green" PlantBottles to make an eco-friendly fabric for cars. PlantBottle essentially uses biofuels (in this case, ethanol derived from sugar cane) to create a modified PET (a type of plastic resin used commonly for bottles). The fabric in Ford's new car replaces the PET used to make polyester with Coca-Cola's PlantBottle PET. Coca-Cola says it's already distributed over 18 billion PlantBottle packages, saving 400,000 barrels of oil in the process, and notes that if the new fabric were to be used across the majority of US Ford models it would save a further 6,000 barrels.

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