Advanced Automotive Technology: Visions of a Super-Efficient Family Car
FIGURE 3-1: Examples of Highly Aerodynamic Cars ...
FIGURE 3-2: Design Features of Toyota AXV-V Side The flat door cross-sections and sham / lines sweeping from front to back are b ...
40 Tax incentives for catalysts and diesel unleaded fuel supply in EC? 30 20 10 Topfer Norm’ tax incentives 0 1978 1980 1982 198 ...
Lithium foil or Li-C alloy / 0.004 inch Current collector Conducting polymer Current collector Composite positive electrode SOUR ...
200 150 75% 80%0 \\ 00 50 0 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 Speed (rpm) SOURCE: A motor manufacturer (confidential). ...
Chapter 4 Advanced Vehicles --Technical Potential and Costs This chapter discusses the potential for advanced light-duty vehicle ...
To evaluate the performance and costs of advanced vehicles, OTA conducted a series of calculations based on physical principles ...
l l l Electric Vehicles. These are vehicles that rely on stored electrical energy (in batteries or, conceivably, in a flywheel) ...
range; others claim that consumers will accept limitations once they examine and better understand their actual travel patterns ...
OTA remains uncertain about the prospects for a large shift in consumer preferences toward vehicles with limited range or other ...
l l l l the technical “context” that made the technology attractive or unattractive--the prevalent fuel or the nature of the tec ...
power steering. And, unless the engine is turned off, during idle and braking the engine energy is largely wasted because it is ...
The engine efficiency--the fraction of fuel energy that emerges as shaft horsepower--is about 22 percent on the city part of the ...
technological and econometric models to estimate technological improvements by size class and performance and size class mix cho ...
The projections of fuel economy changes are quite sensitive to assumptions about future gasoline prices. If fuel prices were twi ...
— .,. Many of the available advanced technologies are relatively cost-effective, and design and technology changes to reduce aer ...
In other respects, the 2005 scenario projections are relatively mundane. In 2005, the 3.0L V-6 engine is expected to be replaced ...
with a fuel efficiency of almost 55 mpg^13 (European 1/3 mix cycle) on a car of weight similar to that estimated for the hypothe ...
accessory use saves as much as 9.5 percent of fuel consumption on the EPA test cycle. (Real world fuel efficiency and range are ...
the ICE vehicle is particularly fuel efficient. One such primary energy comparison between a BMW El and VW Polo diesel,^19 which ...
«
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
»
Free download pdf