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Scott Potter I'd like to see a seat design that would incorporate switchable licensed ford seat covers that could install fairly easy and were fairly easy on the wallet. Change your interior from fabric to plush, to vinyl or step up with a quality leather. Affordable customization or upgrade.
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Help Turn a Plastic Bottle into Ford Seat Fabric

We’ve talked on Ford Social before about the use of nonmetal recycled and biobased materials appearing on the inside and outside of Ford vehicles, and the new 2013 Fusion Hybrid and Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid and 2012 Focus Electric are no exceptions.

Unifi’s REPREVE® brand of recycled fibers are used in all three vehicles; REPREVE is made from a hybrid blend of post-industrial and post-consumer waste. Each Focus Electric seating interior contains the equivalent of about 22 recycled plastic bottles made of PET – polyethylene terephthalate, the technical name of the plastic of which the bottles are made – while Fusion hybrids feature nearly 42.

Unifi and Ford are also setting up plastic bottle collection points within Ford facilities in Michigan and California. The bottles could be part of the more than 2 million plastic bottles that will be recycled into REPREVE for fabrics in the Fusion and Focus Electric in their first model years.

Here’s where you come in: When you buy one of these three Ford vehicles, you can automatically give back to eco-charities. The REPREVE Gives Back program has four environmental nonprofits from which you can designate: Keep America Beautiful, Conservation Alliance, American Rivers and Rocky Mountain Institute.

You’ll be able to determine how the funds will be distributed among the four. To vote, you’ll need to “like” REPREVE on Facebook and click the “Gives Back” tab to get a passcode. At www.repreve.com, you can vote for your favorite environmental cause and learn more about REPREVE.

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What I think would be cool is if my Fence Company had all electric trucks. The amount of money I would save would be ridiculous on gasoline. My costs go down that much, so would my prices. Which would put me and my crew to work even more. Maybe even add a new crew. I save, you save, we save, the environment saves, everyone saves. Its a win win idea. I know the technology is there now, there's just not enough people on the idea yet. The first auto company that could do this for contractors, and make it affordable, would be huge. Kind of like McDonalds uses their own fry grease to drive their whole fleet of semi's. Cool stuff. Could be why they're cheaper, more popular, and are busier than everyone else. Even in a down economy people need to eat. The one's that can still provide that and keep their overhead down will stay in business, the ones that cant, well you know. Some of this technology is out there now but, its not advertised as good as it should be either. Yeah we all want a hot rod but, I watched an all electric car at the salt flats smoke everything else out there.... Not a hybrid either. That just says we're still not ready to get rid of gasoline. It's called a fossil fuel for a reason. I think it's time we moved on. Even in an all electric world there will still be a need for oil. Those guys just dont want to take the back seat, or even the middle. If they were riding in my truck, I'd kick them out....just saying, I think there needs to be more emphasis on all electric. And cater one all electric for the hot rod enthusiasts. I seem to remember a story about the first logging trucks way back in the day being all electric because the ICE was too inefficient, it lacked horsepower. All the other lacked was battery technology. The ICE is cold, haha.:) (the ICE, is the Internal Combustion Engine, for anyone who may not know).
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