Mycelium made car parts and styrofoam alternative!

There are more emerging eco-tech products incorporating mycelium as an alternative to an array of caustic chemicals globally. This is a company based out of Green Island, New York that caught the news and subsequently my eye, called 'Ecoactive' that is widely implementing mycelial inoculated agricultural waste of many types (corn husks, cotton hulls, etc.) as an alternative to Styrofoam packing materials. They are providing a fully compostable waste based product as an alternative to one of the most toxic (in production and disposal) products on the mass market, and they are doing it effectively!
They gained notoriety through the popularity of their greensulate product (a highly effective home insulation product made from mycelium) and the products as well as popularity have grown from there. You can read about that product on their website (listed below) as well as in popular science.
A recent contract with Ford has Gavin McIntyre and Eben Bayer, the founders of Ecoactive, experimenting using the same technology (mycelial inoculated agricultural waste) as car parts. Door paneling and dashboards for now, perhaps fuel in the near future (another research topic underway coming out of the amazon by a completely different research crew examining the hydrocarbons of a specific ecto-mycorhizal fungus).

Below I have pasted links to the Eco active web-page as well as a ted talk about the Styrofoam alternative and the CNN article about Ecoactive's work with Ford.

Amazing!
http://www.ecovativedesign.com/

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/eben_bayer_are_mushrooms_the_new_plastic.html

http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/01/technology/ecovative/index.htm

http://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2009-05/green-styrofoam