Fuel economy
Enhancing fuel economy of a plug in series hybrid vehicle system
... Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles contain both an internal combustion engine (ICE) and electric motor. An alternative or traditional fuel drives these types of automobiles [1]. Hybrid-electric vehicles which are ...
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Can proactive fuel economy strategies help automakers mitigate fuel price risk?
... in fuel economy since legislation was first proposed in the ...value fuel economy only when fuel prices are ...for fuel economy implies that consumers put more weight in ...
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Evaluation of In Use Fuel Economy for Hybrid and Regular Transit Buses
... that fuel economy for the hybrid bus was 54% higher than the two regular diesel ...lower fuel use for the KCM cycle, ...cycle. Fuel economy was reported in miles per gallon ...
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A Review Of Hydrogen Generation By Dry Cell Electrolysis Method To Improve Fuel Economy And Emission Reduction In SI Engine By Cleaner Combustion
... the fuel consumers to spend more money for fuel ...improving fuel economy of an IC ...improving fuel economy and performance of engine by injecting hydrogen along with carbureted ...
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Fuel Economy of Hybrid Electric Heavy-Duty Vehicles
... significant fuel economy improvement for the test cycles where ICEVs feature low effective efficiency of the ICE and for test cycles enabling significant recuperation of the energy by regenerative braking ...
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Aerodynamic Flow Analysis of Commercial Truck for Improving Fuel Economy
... the fuel economy of the vehicles ...more fuel efficient techniques, research has been done to minimize the drag force with different possibilities of additional devices such as teardrop and base ...
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Thermal Management of Vehicle Interior Temperature for Improvement of Fuel Economy
... Additionally, this research provides a concise direction in which engineers can improve their material selection. For example, increasing insulation in the roof will only improve thermal comfort in some select conditions ...
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Influence of gasoline engine lubricant on tribological performance, fuel economy and emissions
... performance, fuel economy and the emissions of the internal combustion ...emissions, fuel economy and fuel economy retention through friction, and overall engine performance, ...
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New vehicle fuel economy in the UK: impact of the recession and recent policies
... vehicle fuel economy had further improved over the already upward time ...the fuel economy improvement in new cars is an additional ...vehicle fuel economy (Greene ...vehicle ...
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Use of Vehicle Power Train Simulation with AMT for Fuel Economy and Performance
... The fuel consumption for a unit can be easily determined rather easily, but it does not take into account the trans- port operation undertaken by the vehicle, and this may result in wrong conclusions when ...
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Comparison of Fuel Economy and Gaseous Emissions of Gas-Direct Injection versus Port-Fuel Injection Light Duty Vehicles Based on Real-World Measurements.
... U.S. fuel economy standards have led to the introduction of fuel saving light duty vehicle ...port fuel injection (PFI) ...more fuel efficient than comparable vehicles with PFI ...in ...
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Comparison of Fuel Economy between Hydraulic Hybrids and Hybrid Electric Vehicles
... In order to investigate the HEV and HHV fuel economy, the study set the two control strategies to be the same. And in order to avoid often start engine, it will be set as SOC storage elements was less than ...
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Energy storage : the route to liberation from the fossil fuel economy?
... distributed sources, and on scales from domestic, local and regional renewable to national or international. To this will be added the complications of integration of transport into the hydrogen electron economy. ...
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Alternator interrupting circuit for improving fuel economy
... of fuel (according to the petrol bowser) and the car’s odometer reading were both ...average fuel consumption of the Landcruiser when using the ROAG system was calculated and compared to the average ...
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Waste Heat Recovery Systems for Fuel Economy
... Despite the numerous advantages that the introduction of WHR systems in cars would bring, there are still some difficulties (increase weight, increased installation costs, safety hazards related to the working fluid, ...
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Correlations between Corporate Climate Change Management and Financial Performance: A Case Study of Japanese Automobile Manufacturers
... vehicle fuel economy and financial fac- tors including EV and the stock ownership ratio of in- vestors, and also with climate change management per- formance as described ...
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Progress and Outlook on Gasoline Vehicle Aftertreatment Systems311-325
... in fuel consumption, while mild hybrids using a 48 V battery look particularly attractive, providing many of the benefits of a full hybrid at a fraction of the ...the fuel economy almost doubled over ...
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Design and Analysis of a Car Rear Spoiler for Drag Reduction
... Aerodynamic characteristics of a Honda civic car 2009 are of significant interest in reducing car-racing accidents due to wind loading and in reducing the fuel consumption. Even though these vehicles typically ...
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Using Catalytic Heat Recovery to Improve Efficiency of Gasoline Spark Ignition Engines407-416
... Exhaust gas recirculation is a widely used technology on conventional vehicles, primarily for lowering emissions of local pollutants. Here we use chemical models to show that an exhaust- gas recirculation loop can be ...
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Commercial Vehicle Aerodynamic Drag Reduction: (Tipper Truck)
... According to second roof deflector design it is found that in such type of tipper there is medium drag which cause not more effect on fuel economy of the vehicle. The design of deflector is shown. Figure 8 ...
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