green truck Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:08:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Aerodynamic Trucks Fight Diesel Rising Prices https://www.greenoptimistic.com/aerodynamic-trucks-fight-diesel-rising-prices-20080614/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/aerodynamic-trucks-fight-diesel-rising-prices-20080614/#respond Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:08:16 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=304 While diesel is approaching $5 a gallon, researchers become more interested in finding a way to reduce fuel consumption on the heavy trucks at highway speeds. Now they have come up with an interesting idea: while there's little point in firstly modifying the engines to consume less, and spending a lot of money on upgrading them, the focus went on making the existing heavy weight trucks more aerodynamic.

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