Aerodynamic Upgrades to Large Trucks Would Save Billions of Gallons of Fuel

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By Yale Environment 360Nov 26, 2014, 10:36 am47 pts
The fuel consumption of the 2 million tractor-trailer trucks hauling cargo across the U.S. — which currently Airflow patterns around a tractor-trailer truck burn 36 billion gallons of diesel fuel per year — could be cut by billions of gallons through the use of drag-reducing devices, according to…

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