Author: Mack W. DowdyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Automotive Fuel Economy and Emissions Experimental Data. Final Report
Author: Mack W. DowdyTechnical Reports of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; a Bibliography, 1979
Author: L. Flynn (comp)Highway Safety Literature
Author: Technologies and Approaches to Reducing the Fuel Consumption of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309159474
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Technologies and Approaches to Reducing the Fuel Consumption of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles evaluates various technologies and methods that could improve the fuel economy of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, such as tractor-trailers, transit buses, and work trucks. The book also recommends approaches that federal agencies could use to regulate these vehicles' fuel consumption. Currently there are no fuel consumption standards for such vehicles, which account for about 26 percent of the transportation fuel used in the U.S. The miles-per-gallon measure used to regulate the fuel economy of passenger cars. is not appropriate for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, which are designed above all to carry loads efficiently. Instead, any regulation of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles should use a metric that reflects the efficiency with which a vehicle moves goods or passengers, such as gallons per ton-mile, a unit that reflects the amount of fuel a vehicle would use to carry a ton of goods one mile. This is called load-specific fuel consumption (LSFC). The book estimates the improvements that various technologies could achieve over the next decade in seven vehicle types. For example, using advanced diesel engines in tractor-trailers could lower their fuel consumption by up to 20 percent by 2020, and improved aerodynamics could yield an 11 percent reduction. Hybrid powertrains could lower the fuel consumption of vehicles that stop frequently, such as garbage trucks and transit buses, by as much 35 percent in the same time frame.
ERDA Energy Research Abstracts
Author: United States. Energy Research and Development AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
A Subject Bibliography from Highway Safety Literature
Author: United States. National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Energy
Author: Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.
Energy Research Abstracts
Author: Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description