Kia and Hyundai are recalling hundreds of thousands of vehicles in the United States after discovering that a component near ...

Perhaps surprisingly, the performance demands placed on fuel tanks used in extended-range electric vehicles (EREVs) can be higher than those used than in conventional internal combustion engine ...

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 ...

Dear Tom and Ray: You recently answered a question about whether it's harmful to let your gas tank run down to empty. You said it's not harmful to the car, and it won't cause any damage. Eric Peters, ...

Continuing just-auto’s series of interviews at the 2015 IAA show, Matthew Beecham met with Jean-Francois Berard, Vice President, R&D, Strategy, Marketing and Industrial, Auto Inergy Division, ...

DETROIT -- Inergy Automotive Systems, a subsidiary of French auto parts supplier Plastic Omnium Co., today is opening a $110 million plant near Detroit that will produce 1.5 million plastic fuel tanks ...

Before 1990, most car gas tanks were made of steel. By 1996 plastic had replaced steel in one out of four fuel tanks manufactured in North America. Last year plastic gas tanks had taken over an ...