A vehicle with deployable pliable fairing skirts and a controller for controlling deployment of the skirts are provided. The pliable fairing skirts are deployable over openings of wheel wells for the vehicle to provide additional streamlining for the vehicle. The pliable fairing skirts are stowable when the brakes of the vehicle may benefit from additional cooling airflow. The skirts are also stowable when environmental conditions may result in damage to the skirts or when steerable wheels of the vehicle would protrude from the opening.
ACTIVELY DEPLOYABLE AND RETRACTABLE FENDER SKIRTS FOR INCREASED FUEL EFFICIENCY
2019-01-10
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
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