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Ford Motor Company Refurbishing Old Engines using Plasma Spray
When an engine fails or becomes very worn, it is usually pulled from the vehicle and scrapped. Ford wants to change that by utilizing a high-tech plasma process to re-manufacture broken engines. The process reduces carbon emissions by about half when compared to making a new engine to replace the old one, and results in a like-new engine block. (Extracted from an industry article shown at https://newatlas.com/ford-plasma-engine/40728/ )