In 1941, Henry Ford introduced an experimental soybean car that used plant-based plastic body panels and challenged the future of steel automobiles |
Long before “bio-based materials” entered the lexicon of the car industry, Henry Ford was trying to answer a different question. Could farms supply more than food? Could fields also provide the raw materials for manufacturing? That idea reached its most unusual expression in the summer of 1941, when Ford unveiled an experimental vehicle with a…