A contribution to understanding automotive fuel economy and its limits

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Sovran, Gino ^a   Blaser, Dwight ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; AUTOMOTIVE FUELS; AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; FUEL CONSUMPTION; POWERTRAINS; VEHICLE TRANSMISSIONS;

AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURERS; COMPLEX FUNCTIONS; FEDERAL REGULATIONS; LABORATORY TEST; SIMULATION PROGRAM; SUBSYSTEM TEST; VEHICLE DESIGN; VEHICLE SYSTEM;

FUEL ECONOMY;

EID: 85088339345     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2003-01-2070     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (6)

1. U.S. Energy Information Administration-http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/ cabsna.html
2. EPA Fuel Economy Websites a) http://www.epa.gov/otaq/cert/mpg/40p0600. pdf-Part 600: Fuel Economy of Motor Vehicles.
3. http://www.epa.gov/otaq/labda.htm-UDDS: EPA Urban Dynamometer Driving Schedule and HWFET: EPA Highway Fuel Economy Driving Schedule.
4. Sovran, G., and Bohn, M. S., "Formulae for the Tractive-Energy Requirements of Vehicles Driving the EPA Schedules," Feb. 1981, SAE 810184; SAE Transactions, 1982, pp 746-57.
5. National Research Council, "Effectiveness and Impact of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards," National Academy Press, 2002.
6. Patton, K. J., Sullivan, A. M., Rask, R. B., and Theobald, M. A., "Aggregating Technologies for Reduced Fuel Consumption: A Review of the Technical Content in the 2002 National Research Council Report on CAFE," SAE 2002-01-0628.