The Ford Motor Company, as part of its evolving commitment to make its products environmentally friendly over the entire life and operation of the vehicle, is conducting experiments with plastics that are both bio-based and biodegradable. The end goal is to produce interior parts that will essentially dissolve when their working lives have come to an end Speaking at the Ward’s Auto Interiors Show in June, the technical leader of the company’s materials research and advanced engineering department admitted the goal is both difficult and long-term one.

As quoted by Auto News, Deborah Mielewski said, “It’s the big project. Before I retire, I want to reach the point where we stop making automotive plastics that are thrown into the landfill and last forever.” Last year Ford began to implement a urethane foam blend based on soybeans first used in the Mustang and now present in half a dozen other models. While much of the media emphasis is on lower emissions and greater fuel efficiency, vehicles can continue to pollute the environment for decades as they slowly decay in junkyards and garbage dumps all over the world.

Running an auto dealership is becoming that much tougher by the day. This is so because there are many more functional areas that need to be taken care of such as, inventory, sales, marketing and customer service. With intense competition people who run auto dealerships are facing the heat, so to speak, these days. Fortunately for them there is a variety of automotive software that is available nowadays. Auto dealer management software can reduce the burden and increase efficiency to a major extent. There are many tasks which have got easier thanks to the advent of this type of software.

With the coming in of automotive software tasks such as storing and manual recording can now be totally avoided. Similarly the software also allows for better control over the inventory, with all the information available to the top management, literally at the click of a button. This software can be used by both used car as well as new car dealerships. Several types of data can be stored and then retrieved by the software. This helps in keeping track of a whole host of information such as the detailed expense tracking, purchase price of a vehicle and information on the past inventories, to mention only some.