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 ...

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 ...

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.

Fuel tanks don’t fail often, but when they do, repairs can be expensive and potentially dangerous. Damage can happen from collisions, water intrusion, poor manufacturing or even leaving a car unused ...

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 ...

Fueled by the need to save weight and reduce evaporative emissions, a great deal of innovative design and materials work is going into vehicle fuel tank systems. Matthew Beecham reports on the ongoing ...