Aluminum fuel tanks can corrode in a marine environment, though much depends on how well they are protected belowdecks from salt water. Shielded from briny water, tanks can last forever, but on some ...

Japanese equipment giant Yamaha has acquired a Milwaukee plastic fuel tank rotational molder to shore up its U.S. boating motors unit. Yamaha Motor Corp. said June 19 that it bought Kracor Inc. and ...

Something was wrong with Sally Ann. ¶ For months, she sputtered and choked, and Barry Treahy’s remedies weren’t working. He kept changing her fuel filters. Then he rebuilt her carburetor. Finally, he ...

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 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 ...

When Congress passed the 2005 Energy Bill, the legislation included a mandate that oil refiners increase the percentage of corn-based ethanol they add to their gasoline products. Bill supporters ...