Author: staff@jalopnik.com (Alvin Reyes)

sritakoset/Shutterstock Have you ever noticed that a growing number of contemporary automobile parts are made up of plastic? Your grandpa is just not lying when he says that they do not make ’em like they used to. The plastic content in cars increased by 16% from 2012 to 2021, in response to a 2023 report by the American Chemistry Council. Which means that just about 411 kilos of a contemporary vehicle’s weight is plastic. While this makes up roughly 10% of the full weight of a automobile on average, this also accounts for nearly 50% of the full volume of the…