{"id":15429,"date":"2011-10-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20111011-02n"},"modified":"2011-10-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T22:00:00","slug":"ecological-plastic-covers-80-of-new-toyota-sai-interior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/ecological-plastic-covers-80-of-new-toyota-sai-interior\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ecological Plastic&#8217; Covers 80% of New Toyota &#8216;Sai&#8217; Interior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has successfully used &#8220;Ecological Plastic&#8221;1 to cover approximately 80% of the total interior surface area in the partially redesigned Japan-market &#8220;Sai&#8221; gasoline-electric hybrid sedan.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>TMC achieved 80% coverage through the use of a new bio-PET-based2 Ecological Plastic in the seat trim, floor carpets, and other interior surfaces that require a higher abrasion-resistance than could be achieved with an earlier Ecological Plastic used in other parts of the interior. TMC&#8217;s new Ecological Plastic dramatically outperforms other general bioplastics in terms of heat-resistance, durability, and shrink-resistance, and performs on par with petroleum-derived plastics, with cost of parts included.<\/p>\n<p>TMC considers Ecological Plastic to be instrumental to cutting CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions and to using less petroleum resources over the lifecycle of a vehicle, from manufacturing through to disposal. This is because the plastic uses plants, which absorb CO<sub>2<\/sub> from the atmosphere as they grow, as a raw material instead of petroleum-derived plastics. Furthermore, the benefits of an environmental technology like Ecological Plastic are increased when used in mass-produced products such as automobiles.<\/p>\n<p>TMC has been working on applying Ecological Plastic to automobiles since 2000. In May 2003, TMC became the first in the world to use bioplastic made from polylactic acid in a mass-produced vehicle when it introduced the material in the spare-tire cover and floor mats of the Japan-market &#8220;Raum&#8221; compact car. TMC achieved another world-first when it used its bio-PET Ecological Plastic in the trunk lining of the Lexus CT 200h released in January 2011.<\/p>\n<p>TMC continues its proactive push in the development of new technologies and practical applications to further expand the use of Ecological Plastic in vehicle parts.<\/p>\n<p><b>Use of Ecological Plastic in Interior Parts of Partially Redesigned &#8216;Sai&#8217;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news-images\/20111011-02\/1011_01_S.jpg\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right:10px;\" BORDER=\"0\" ALT=\"Bild\"\/>   <img SRC=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news-images\/20111011-02\/1011_02_S.jpg\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right:10px;\" BORDER=\"0\" ALT=\"Grafik\"\/><br style=\"clear:left;\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has successfully used &#8220;Ecological Plastic&#8221;1 to cover approximately 80% of the total interior surface area in the partially redesigned Japan-market &#8220;Sai&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[238],"class_list":["post-15429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-toyota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15429"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}