An average long-haul truck with a sleeper cabin idles more than 1,400 hours annually to supply heating, cooling, and electricity during driver rest periods. Nationwide, long-haul truck idling consumes more than 800 million gallons of fuel annually. Reducing idling time can cut fuel consumption and tailpipe emissions while saving money for truckers. Reducing thermal loads--the amount of heating and cooling energy required to keep a trucks occupants comfortable--is vital for reducing idling. As part of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity (AVTA), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) CoolCab project tested and modeled the effects of several thermal-load reduction strategies applied to long-haul truck cabs.


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    Title :

    Vehicle Technologies Program: CoolCab: Reducing Thermal Loads in Long-Haul Trucks


    Publication date :

    2010


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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