Quote from: Needmoreboost on July 26, 2013, 07:33:56 PMNot exactly what I would call an improvement on gas filling technology...
It was necessarily an improvement in technology of you will, but Ford was touting it as more of an environmental improvement.
By eliminating the use of actual, separate caps, Ford was putting it out there that they saved blah blah blah in the production of the caps, all the fuel and stuff to run the machines that produced them, and in the long run, saved space in the land fills by going "capless".
I think what FMC was really secretly proud of, was their cost savings of w/e it was, per unit, to have those on 'x' amount of vehicles.
Even at a cost of let's say .25 per cap, across the entire Eco-line of vehicles, if they sold 500,000 total vehicles, that's a cost savings in caps alone of: $125,000.
Go figure. Leave it to the penny pinchers.
Realistically, I'm sure those caps cost more than .25, but just tossed that number out there for example purposes.
