Friday, January 11, 2013

New device reduces wind drag for container trucks

A California company has designed a device to help truckers save fuel and emit less harmful emissions.

ATDynamics has designed the TrailerTail, an assembly of panels that can be permanently installed on an average shipping container in about an hour. Once in place, the panels, which look something like a box kit, passively reduce aerodynamic drag behind the vehicle.

The company says the $2,200 device increases fuel efficiency by more than 6 percent, paying for itself in less than a year. That amounts to total savings of 1.6 billion gallons of diesel annually for the U.S. trucking industry, and a 14-million-ton decrease in CO2 emissions.

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