Full disclosure: your humble author is a Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) shareholder. Seriously, I think I have, like, ten shares. So you should view the above headline and video with suspicion and the proverbial shaker of salt.
The folks at GreenCarReports have the details on the WAVE concept truck. The fifty-three-foot trailer breaks new ground in carbon-fiber large assemblies; extensive use of that material makes the WAVE two full tons lighter than conventional tractor-trailers.
No fuel-economy estimates are provided, but even seemingly minor fuel-economy improvements in America's truck fleet would make a bigger difference than virtually anything that private drivers could do. Just improving mileage to, say, 12MPG for tractor-trailers would be the equivalent of raising America's private vehicles to an average of 40MPG or more.
from The Truth About Cars http://ift.tt/Jh8LjA
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