Download or read book Quantitative Effects of Vehicle Parameters on Fuel Consumption for Heavy Duty Vehicle written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL's) Fleet Test and Evaluations team recently conducted chassis dynamometer tests of a class 8 conventional regional delivery truck over the Heavy Heavy-Duty Diesel Truck (HHDDT), West Virginia University City (WVU City), and Composite International Truck Local and Commuter Cycle (CILCC) drive cycles. A quantitative study was conducted by analyzing the impacts of various factors on fuel consumption (FC) and fuel economy (FE) by modeling and simulating the truck using NREL's Future Automotive Systems Technology Simulator (FASTSim). Factors used in this study included vehicle weight, and the coefficients of rolling resistance and aerodynamic drag. The simulation results from a single parametric study revealed that FC was approximately a linear function of the weight, coefficient of aerodynamic drag, and rolling resistance over various drive cycles. Among these parameters, the truck weight had the largest effect on FC. The study of the impact of two technologies on FE suggested that, depending on the circumstances, it may be more cost effective to reduce one parameter (such as coefficient of aerodynamic drag) to increase fuel economy, or it may be more beneficial to reduce another (such as the coefficient of rolling resistance). It also provided a convenient way to estimate FE by interpolating within the parameter values and extrapolating outside of them. The simulation results indicated that the FC could be reduced from 38.70 L/100 km, 50.72 L/100 km, and 38.42 L/100 km in the baseline truck to 26.78 L/100 km, 43.14 L/100 km and 29.84 L/100 km over the HHDDT, WVU City and CILCC drive cycles, respectively, when the U.S. Department of Energy's three targeted new technologies were applied simultaneously.

Download or read book Assessment of Fuel Economy Technologies for Light Duty Vehicles written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Various combinations of commercially available technologies could greatly reduce fuel consumption in passenger cars, sport-utility vehicles, minivans, and other light-duty vehicles without compromising vehicle performance or safety. Assessment of Technologies for Improving Light Duty Vehicle Fuel Economy estimates the potential fuel savings and costs to consumers of available technology combinations for three types of engines: spark-ignition gasoline, compression-ignition diesel, and hybrid. According to its estimates, adopting the full combination of improved technologies in medium and large cars and pickup trucks with spark-ignition engines could reduce fuel consumption by 29 percent at an additional cost of $2,200 to the consumer. Replacing spark-ignition engines with diesel engines and components would yield fuel savings of about 37 percent at an added cost of approximately $5,900 per vehicle, and replacing spark-ignition engines with hybrid engines and components would reduce fuel consumption by 43 percent at an increase of $6,000 per vehicle. The book focuses on fuel consumption-the amount of fuel consumed in a given driving distance-because energy savings are directly related to the amount of fuel used. In contrast, fuel economy measures how far a vehicle will travel with a gallon of fuel. Because fuel consumption data indicate money saved on fuel purchases and reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, the book finds that vehicle stickers should provide consumers with fuel consumption data in addition to fuel economy information.

Download or read book Coastdown Coefficient Analysis of Heavy Duty Vehicles and Application to the Examination of the Effects of Grade and Other Parameters on Fuel Consumption written by Murat Ates and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Technologies and Approaches to Reducing the Fuel Consumption of Medium and Heavy Duty Vehicles written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Effect of Speed on Truck Fuel Consumption Rates written by Edwin M. Cope and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Evaluation of Fuel Consumption Potential of Medium and Heavy Duty Vehicles Through Modeling and Simulation written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main objective of this report is to provide quantitative data to support the Committee in its task of establishing a report to support rulemaking on medium- and heavy-duty fuel efficiency improvement. In particular, it is of paramount importance for the Committee to base or illustrate their conclusions on established models and actual state-of-the art data. The simulations studies presented in the report have been defined and requested by the members of the National Academy committee to provide quantitative inputs to support their recommendations. As such, various technologies and usage scenarios were considered for several applications. One of the objective is to provide the results along with their associated assumptions (both vehicle and drive cycles), information generally missing from public discussions on literature search. Finally, the advantages and limitations of using simulation will be summarized. The study addresses several of the committee tasks, including: (1) Discussion of the implication of metric selection; (2) Assessing the impact of existing technologies on fuel consumption through energy balance analysis (both steady-state and standard cycles) as well as real world drive cycles; and (3) Impact of future technologies, both individually and collectively.

Download or read book The Impact of Automotive Fuel Economy Standards on Competition in the Automotive Industry Final Report written by J. Hayden Boyd and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hedonic demand model to analyze consumers' preferences for automobile attributes and the effect of changes in vehicles on market share.

Download or read book A Report on Automotive Fuel Economy written by United States. Environmental Protection Agency and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Energy and Environmental Consequences of Increased Vehicle Size and Weight Volume I Final Report written by Robert Davis Layton and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Assessment of Fuel Economy Technologies for Light Duty Vehicles written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-07-03 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Various combinations of commercially available technologies could greatly reduce fuel consumption in passenger cars, sport-utility vehicles, minivans, and other light-duty vehicles without compromising vehicle performance or safety. Assessment of Technologies for Improving Light Duty Vehicle Fuel Economy estimates the potential fuel savings and costs to consumers of available technology combinations for three types of engines: spark-ignition gasoline, compression-ignition diesel, and hybrid. According to its estimates, adopting the full combination of improved technologies in medium and large cars and pickup trucks with spark-ignition engines could reduce fuel consumption by 29 percent at an additional cost of $2,200 to the consumer. Replacing spark-ignition engines with diesel engines and components would yield fuel savings of about 37 percent at an added cost of approximately $5,900 per vehicle, and replacing spark-ignition engines with hybrid engines and components would reduce fuel consumption by 43 percent at an increase of $6,000 per vehicle. The book focuses on fuel consumption-the amount of fuel consumed in a given driving distance-because energy savings are directly related to the amount of fuel used. In contrast, fuel economy measures how far a vehicle will travel with a gallon of fuel. Because fuel consumption data indicate money saved on fuel purchases and reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, the book finds that vehicle stickers should provide consumers with fuel consumption data in addition to fuel economy information.

Download or read book The Energy Economic and Environmental Consequences of Increased Vehicle Size and Weight written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Energy Economic and Environmental Consequences of Increased Vehicle Size and Weight Final report written by Oregon State University. Transportation Research Institute and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Factors Affecting the Repeatability of the Fuel Consumption of a Heavy duty Truck on Urban and Highway Roads written by Mohamed Wahba and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trends in vehicle control show an increasing reliance on data aggregation and model-based predictive control to improve vehicle performance. The data and models that underly this trend, when analyzed experimentally on-the-road, allow discovery of route and location-specific effects that are not typically captured with generic vehicle or road representations. The influence of these effects on the performance, fuel economy, and stability of vehicle systems - particularly heavy vehicles used individually or in platoons - is poorly understood.This thesis examines the location-specific variations and influences that affect the performance in terms of fuel economy of heavy-duty trucks in urban and highway routes. The methods are motivated by experimental data collection from large numbers of repeated route traversals, with data including vehicle position, speed, acceleration, fuel use as well as drag reduction for following trucks in the case of platooning. These measurements allow the dynamic fuel consumption to be matched as a function of distance along the route as measured in a spatial s-coordinate. Testing situations include conventional single-vehicle operation across a wide range of urban, arterial, and highway situations, as well as the platooning of two trucks on an interstate highway.The results demonstrate that terrain and position information within a route offer significant predictions in terms of fuel economy in a vehicle. Additionally, infrastructure elements, specifically vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication can be used not only to monitor route information, but also used by the infrastructure to constrain or define behaviors of the vehicle. Moreover, the geometric definition of a road was seen to change the behavior of the stability of a truck platoon. Also, the drag reduction experienced by truck platoon is quantified using wind-tunnel experiments. Afterwards, a framework is proposed where the number of route traversals needed to define a route in terms of fuel use and vehicle speed is obtained based on statistical confidence. Finally, two commercial Volvo trucks are used to obtain location-specific fuel consumption and drag estimates when undergoing a fixed gap-distance in a truck platoon on Interstate-99. When the inter-vehicle platoon spacing was fixed to a one vehicle length, the fuel consumption reduction had a per-route average improvement of 13.6% on one route, and 9.1% on another route.

Download or read book Effectiveness and Impact of Corporate Average Fuel Economy CAFE Standards written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-01-29 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since CAFE standards were established 25 years ago, there have been significant changes in motor vehicle technology, globalization of the industry, the mix and characteristics of vehicle sales, production capacity, and other factors. This volume evaluates the implications of these changes as well as changes anticipated in the next few years, on the need for CAFE, as well as the stringency and/or structure of the CAFE program in future years.

Download or read book Fuel Economy Modeling of Light duty and Heavy duty Vehicles and Coastdown Study written by Murat Ates and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Development of a Fuel Economy Model for Light-Duty and Heavy-Duty Vehicles is part of the Texas Department of Transportation's "Estimating Texas Motor Vehicle Operating Costs" project. The literature review for models that could be used to predict the fuel economy of light-duty and heavy-duty vehicles consisted of Prof. Ronald D. Matthews' decades-long examination of the experimental techniques used to determine compliance with emissions and fuel economy requirements for on-road vehicles. For light-duty vehicles, advantage can be taken of the modeling data provided by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for adjusting chassis dynamometers to allow accurate determination of emissions and fuel economy so that compliance with emissions standards and Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regulations can be assessed. Initially, EPA provided vehicle-specific data that were relevant to a physics-based model of the forces at the tire-road interface. Due to some limitations of these model parameters, EPA eventually went to a coarse, empirical, vehicle-specific model for this force as a function of vehicle speed. However, this coarse model was, in fact, too coarse. EPA now provides three vehicle-specific coefficients obtained from vehicle coastdown data. These coefficients can be related back to the original physics-based model of the forces at the tire-road interface, but not in a manner that allows the original modeling parameters to be extracted from the coastdown coefficients. Nevertheless, as long as the operation of a light-duty vehicle does not involve extreme acceleration or deceleration transients, the coefficients available from the EPA can be used to accurately predict fuel economy. Manufacturers of heavy-duty vehicles are not required to meet any sort of CAFE standards, and the engines used in heavy-duty vehicles, rather than the vehicles themselves, are tested (using an engine dynamometer) to determine compliance with emissions standards. Therefore, EPA provides no data that could be useful for predicting the fuel economy of heavy-duty vehicles. Therefore, it will be necessary to perform the coastdown tests ourselves, and use these tests to develop vehicle-specific coefficients for the force at the tire-road interface. Given these coefficients, the fuel economy of a heavy-duty vehicle can be calculated for any driving schedule. The heavy-duty vehicle model will be limited to pre-2007 calendar year heavy-duty vehicles due to the adverse effects of emissions components that were necessary to comply with emissions standards that went into effect January 2007.

Download or read book Vehicle Parameters for Estimating Fuel Consumption of Cars and Trucks in British Columbia written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Highways is updating its capability for estimating road user benefits so that these benefits can be better taken into account in rural and urban road investment appraisals. The Ministry has selected the software package ARFCOM (Australian Road Fuel Consumption Model) for estimating the fuel consumption component of road user costs. ARFCOM can be used for estimating fuel consumption of all vehicles and ten default vehicles are included in the program. These default vehicles need to be modified to apply to the vehicle fleet in British Columbia (B.C.). This report describes the vehicle CLes for B.C., the method used to derive vehicle parameters and how these vehicles can be used within ARFCOM. A description of the method used to include the effects of weather conditions on fuel consumption is included in the appendice.

Download or read book A Study of Technological Improvements in Automobile Fuel Consumption written by Donald A. Hurter and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: