tractor trailers Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:40:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 “Active Air Control” Improves Emissions and Fuel Economy in Larger Engines https://www.greenoptimistic.com/active-air-control-improves-emissions-fuel-economy-larger-engines-20140214/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/active-air-control-improves-emissions-fuel-economy-larger-engines-20140214/#respond Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:40:29 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=45926 An internal combustion engine (ICE) is essentially an air pump. The more efficient the air flows through the air pump (ICE), the better power and fuel economy the ICE can deliver. The ICE is a complex high-speed ballet of mechanical parts, designed to extract as much usable power from a spritz of gasoline in each […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/active-air-control-improves-emissions-fuel-economy-larger-engines-20140214/feed/ 0 45926 Peterbilt’s SuperTruck Program Makes Trucks More Fuel Efficient https://www.greenoptimistic.com/peterbilt-supertruck-20130321/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/peterbilt-supertruck-20130321/#respond Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:16:25 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=35137 While some two million registered tractor-trailers on the road today average just 6mpg, Peterbilt’s SuperTruck program is developing more efficient trucks for the future. Cargo rail and shipping has revolutionized the way we distribute manufactured goods within the country, but heavy trucks still have most of the final leg from rail stations or seaports to […]

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