Study: Aluminum lightweighting does, in fact, save fuel

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By Danny KingApr 14, 2014, 3:20 pm26 pts
Filed under: Manufacturing/Plants, Ford, Lightweight When the best-selling US truck sheds the equivalent weight of three football fullbacks by shifting to aluminum, folks start paying attention. Oak Ridge National Laboratory took a closer look at whether the reduced fuel consumption from a lighter aluminum body…

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