Paint: Water-Borne Car Paint for Toyota, Ford, Mazda, GM

Not really a gadget like the self-recovering paint and it also does not change its color but I like any approach of saving our environment that makes sense.

Toyota, Ford, Mazda and GM are all now using "metallic water-borne" paints instead of "organic-solvent paints" in an effort to reduce the amount of volatile organic compounds (VOC) produced by each new car. "Back in 1999, Toyota Motor Corp. started to shift top coat painting for its automobile lines in Japan [...] The company has just completed the rollout at its Motomachi plant." Mazda has developed what it calls "e-coating" to reduce VOCs, and Ford is doing something similar. GM apparently has been using low VOC emission waterborne basecoat coatings for the longest (since the 80s, according to one source). These low-VOC paints are not yet used on all coatings, but with time it should happen.
Not that cars are our favorite thing in the world, but we certainly hope that other automakers will start using these processes too; anything that can reduce the amount of pollution that a car produces in its lifetime can only be good.

And by the way: cars are one of our favourite things in the world...

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Source: Treehugger

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