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Fuel Efficiency * USA - EPA to Test Trucks' one
Environmental Protection Agency officials said they expect to begin testing heavy- and medium-duty trucks for fuel efficiency later this summer
Washington,DC,USA -Light & Medium Trucks/Transport Topics, by Daniel P. Bearth/Automotive Digest -3 June 2008: -- ... Cheryl Bynum, a program manager with EPA’s SmartWay Transport Partnership, said testing would begin “by the end of summer,” but added, “I don’t think a final protocol can be completed before mid-2009.”... Bynum spoke at an EPA-sponsored workshop in Washington, D.C., to solicit feedback from industry representatives after the agency published a draft test protocol in November. Agency officials had been working closely with trucking officials and equipment manufacturers to develop fuel testing procedures since last year... Under the draft EPA test protocol, EPA proposed testing a variety of different commercial truck configurations, including an over-the road tractor-trailer combination and regional haul truck, a drayage truck, a parcel or beverage delivery vehicle, a garbage truck, a utility service truck and a transit bus, based on simulated average loads and duty cycles... Initial testing would be conducted simultaneously on a test track and a chassis dynamometer to determine if there is any difference in performance... A separate procedure for testing diesel-electric hybrid trucks would also be developed...
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