Weight and fuel economy?
Hi everyone, first post here. Glad to finally see a good driver's forum, it took a while to find this place.
I'm looking for a credible source that has done research on weight and fuel economy on trucks (cube/cargo vans, straight trucks, and semis). I know theres a huge range of variables there. But at this point I'm looking for general figures. For example loosing 500 lbs on a straight truck will improve fuel economy by 5%. You get the idea. I searched on here, but couldn't find the information I was looking for. And if this is posted in the wrong section, please feel free to move it. Thanks and Merry Xmas everyone. |
welcome to cad, IDS!
at the moment, this is the best i can do..... smartway transport partnership and then within that site is an article on weight reduction although with general statistics, not the tables like i think you're looking for. if you're so inclined, search the department of energy's database somewhat related is a search of the national academies press the first 2 books posted look promising, and you can read them for free. also found office of heavy vehicle technologies but couldn't search it as it timed out on me. good luck! |
Excellent start, thanks very much Vavega. I'll start digging through your links.
And thanks for the welcome :) |
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I'm very impressed Vavega, definitely more than I bargained for. I got some time off over the next two weeks, so I got some reading ahead of me.
Thanks again, much appreciated it. I'll try to make a summary table from all the readings once I'm done. Very interesting stuff. |
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