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Alcoa introduces lightest weight heavy-duty truck wheel

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Fleets have increasingly converted to aluminum wheels that offset the weight of necessary pollution-control equipment used to meet federal emissions regulations. Lighter wheels also improve fuel economy. x 8.25” size for heavy-duty, commercial transportation, and is being readied in all OEM customer data books.

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Oak Ridge researcher developing autonomous intelligent engines capable of real-time calibration based on driver behavior

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Calibration is defined as the procedure required to optimize one or more engine performance indices—such as fuel economy, emissions, or engine power—with respect to the engine controllable variables.). maximizing fuel economy, minimizing pollutant emissions, and maximizing engine acceleration).

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Earth Day 2024: each day is about reducing emissions | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

At the time, Americans were slurping leaded fuel through massive V8 sedans. Air pollution was commonly accepted as the smell of prosperity. Yet, we have brought chaos to the natural world: poisoning our planet with pollution, wiping out species and ecosystems with abandon, and destabilising our climate with greenhouse gas emissions.

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Why Hybrids are gaining momentum amid EV frenzy | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

There is a significant waiting period of over 8-12 months for hybrids for some models like Invicto and HyCross and the booking momentum continues. The gap would have narrowed further if not for shortage of components and capacity constraints, say industry players. However, most of the EVs are readily available and some even have discounts.

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HD REV powertrain company Wrightspeed gearing up for commercialization push

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Bringing more than 15 years of automotive and controls expertise from Tesla Motors and Ford to Honeywell and Cummins, Sawyer has led teams geared at improving efficiency and fuel economy in the commercial vehicles space. The company is to a certain degree battery chemistry and supplier neutral; it currently is sourcing from Japan.

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China Plucky Plug In

Plug In Partners

The trifecta of mounting concern about petroleum's impact on national security, the environment and the economy provides an unprecedented opportunity to radically reshape national energy policy, says Sandalow , who is now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. by 2020.

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U-M study: Induced driving miles could overwhelm potential energy-saving benefits of connected, self-driving cars

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Higher fuel economy of CAVs will cause the per-mile fuel cost of travel to drop. This, in turn, will induce additional travel that partially offsets the fuel savings of energy efficiency—commonly referred to as a “rebound effect”.

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