Automotive Fuel Economy: How Far Should We Go?

Automotive Fuel Economy: How Far Should We Go? is written by National Research Council (U. S.) Committee on Fuel Economy of Automobiles and Light Trucks and published by National Academy Press. This automobile book focus on how to reduce fuel consumptions in light trucks by implementing certain fuel economy measures. Moreover in this book, it explains the impact on the automotive industry due to the fuel economy measures. This book wiill really help automobile engineers who are working as design engineers for increasing fuel efficiency of the vehicle.

Following are the topics covered in this automobile engineering book.

1. Fuel use in automobiles and light trucks
2. Safety implications of fuel economy measures
3. Environmental issues
4. Impacts on the automotive industry
5. The automobile, fuel economy, and the consumer
6. Fuel economy projections
7. Achievable fuel economy levels
8. Policies for improving fuel economy

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Environmental Issues of Synthetic Transporation Fuels from coal is written by Michael A. Chartock Michael D. Devine, Martin R. Cines, Martha W. Gilliland and Steven C. Ballard. This book explains how to increase Automobile Fuel Efficiency and Synthetic Fuels which act as alternatives for reducing oil Imports.

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• A comparison of the environmental differences among technologies;
• A comparison of the impacts among different coal regions;
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• An identification of problems aggravated by accelerated development schedules.

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1. Overview of Environmental Concerns such as mining, coal liquefaction and refining, product transport and end-use.
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