Light Commercial Vehicles Diesel Tanks
Craig Henderson drove from Blaine, Washington to the Mexican border — a distance of 1,478 miles — without stopping to refuel. He burned 12.4 gallons for a record-breaking 119.1 mpg in a car he originally designed in 1984.
The Avion is a car Craig Henderson originally built with partner Bill Green way back in 1984 as a prototype for a high-mileage vehicle he hoped to sell. Commercial plans never came to fruition, but Henderson never abandoned the Avion. Over the years he's kept tinkering with it, improving its powertrain and aerodynamics along the way.
The car is built with two things in mind: weight and aerodynamics. To achieve a featherweight 1500-lb target, it uses an aluminum monocoque frame with steel front/rear crash and suspension subframes. To the frame a slippery wind tunnel-shaped body made of carbon fiber, kevlar and fiberglass is riveted and bonded in place, yielding a very stiff structure. An 800-cc diesel engine is transversely mounted behind the driver and the rear wheels are powered through a five-speed gearbox.
With such light weight and low-resistance aerodynamics, the car only requires 3-4 horsepower to keep a 55 mph pace, perfect for the tiny diesel to chug along just sipping fuel. Henderson recently got sponsorship from Goodyear and tossed on a set of their low rolling resistance "Fuel Max" tires and has been seeing 115 mpg averages. As a promotional stunt, he decided to set off from the US/Canadian border at Blaine, Washinton and drive all the way to the Mexican border without filling up. Border-to-border on one tank.
From Canada To Mexico On One Tank of Diesel - Jalopnik (blog)
Ahead of the official unveil at the Paris Motor Show on September 30th, Lotus announce the latest evolution of the award winning Evora â?? the Evora S and Evora IPS (Intelligent Precision Shift) option.
The Evora S comes with a sport pack as standard featuring a 'sport' button which allows the driver to control throttle response and activate the exhaust by-pass valve. The sport button also raises the instantaneous rev limit and changes the dynamic stability control settings resulting in a total experience change. There are cross-drilled brakes for improved cooling. And here's a heads up for those who buy into the old adage 'you can tell the men from the boys by the size of their toys': the external emotion of the Evora S has been improved with a completely new active exhaust which means that at the push of a button the car sounds just as dramatic as it feels.
But that's not all. In addition to the Evora S, Lotus also presents the IPS (Intelligent Precision Shift) option. This inception of the seven-time-award-winning (who's counting? We are!) Evora sees an automatic 6-speed gearbox with Lotus developed transmission control with a 3.5 l V6 engine delivering 280 PS assuring a superior automatic driving experience.
The IPS version of the Evora allows the driver to switch between manual paddle shift and automatic drive modes. The driver also has the option of selecting 'sport' mode which showcases the Lotus sport driving experience allowing the driver to really feel each gear shift and be in complete control of the transmission.
There's no way to know at press time what Oneida County might have done Wednesday afternoon, but Scott Negri's conditional use permit application to relocate from Hwy. 51 South to Red Tail Loop sailed through the town board Tuesday night.
On Tuesday, residents in the proposed relocation neighborhood once again showed up to voice their complaints about the diesel repair and sale business, and a sober discussion of issues consumed most of the nearly three-hour town board meeting.
Yet there was never any doubt the town board planned to recommend approval of the CUP, and in fact most of the evening was spent discussing conditions that might be imposed on the operation.
Residents from the Red Tail Loop and Ranchwood Road neighborhoods again raised issues that ranged from a characterization of Negri's business as a salvage yard to potential groundwater and lake contamination, as well as concerns about noise, air and light pollution.
Minocqua board approves CUP to relocate Northwoods Diesel - Lakeland Times
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Most research on renewable energy has focused on replacing the electricity that now comes from burning coal and natural gas. But the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the reliance on Middle East imports and the threat of global warming are reminders that oil is also a pressing worry. A lot of problems could be solved with a renewable replacement for oil-based gasoline and diesel in the fuel tank — either a new liquid fuel or a much better battery.
Yet, success in this field is so hard to reliably predict that research has been limited, and even venture capitalists tread lightly. Now the federal government is plunging in, in what the energy secretary, Steven Chu, calls the hunt for miracles.
The work is part of the mission of the new Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy, which is intended to finance high-risk, high-reward projects. It can be compared to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, part of the Pentagon, which spread seed money for projects and incubated a variety of useful technologies, including the Internet.
The goal of this agency, whose budget is $400 million for two years, is to realize profound results — such as tens of millions of motor vehicles that would run 300 miles a day on electricity from clean sources or on liquid fuels from trees and garbage.
DiesoLift10 — offers railroad companies, fleet managers and utilities a 3 to 7 percent boost in fuel economy that translates to fewer greenhouse gas emissions and a smaller fuel bill.
Stagecoach Group — to provide it with the additive, which it claims saved it some 92,000 gallons of diesel fuel over the course of a year.
I spoke with Burst from his office in sweltering St. Louis, Mo. about how adding something extra to the gas tank can reduce what comes out of the tailpipe (and the corporate fuel budget).
JB: It is interesting when you talk about additives because, let’s face it, most additives are made of fuel. You can’t add a lot — you’re putting fuel in fuel.
IFT CEO Jon Burst: Add to gas tank, subtract from environment (and budget) - SmartPlanet.com (blog)
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