The trade-off between automobile acceleration performance, weight, and fuel consumption

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Cheah, Lynette W ^a   Bandivadekar, Anup P ^a   Bodek, Kristian M ^a   Kasseris, Emmanuel P ^a   Heywood, John B ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FLEET OPERATIONS; FUELS; POWERTRAINS;

ACCELERATION PERFORMANCE; FUEL USE; LIGHT-DUTY VEHICLE FLEET; TRADE OFF;

FUEL CONSUMPTION;

EID: 85072450366     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2008-01-1524     Document Type: Conference Paper

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