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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Corporate average fuel economy"”.
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Automaker technology strategy and the cost of complying with the corporate average fuel economy standards
… to close the gap between current new vehicle fuel economy and the fuel economy mandated by CAFE: (1) deployment of fuel saving technologies to improve the fuel economy of conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles; or (2) increasing the share of high-efficiency electric vehicles …
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Sensing, Actuation, and Embedded Control for a Custom SCR Nitrogen Oxides Emissions Reduction System
… standards for mileage of vehicles set by the Corporate Average Fuel Economy and the Environmental Protection Agency, diesel engines should soon be considered in lieu of gas engines. Despite advantages of diesel engines, diesel emissions include harmful gasses like carbon monoxide, nitrogen …
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Supervisory Controls Strategy to Reduce Utility Factor Weighted Criteria Emissions for a Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle
… multiple strategies to balance emissions and fuel consumption. Common controls strategies in industry target fuel economy by using a large electric vehicle range, known as charge depletion, followed by maintaining a state of charge after a specific vehicle threshold, or charge sustaining. A …
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Evaluating Trends in Light-Duty Vehicle Technologies to Project Fuel Economy
Predicting the fuel economy of future light-duty vehicles provides insight into the expected greenhouse gas emissions, oil consumption, and operating costs in the transportation sector. Fuel economy is difficult to directly predict, however, due to the large number of vehicle characteristics that …
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From the arsenal of democracy to 0% financing: Promotional communication at General Motors
… media system situated within the political economy of communication. Through a case study of General Motor’s promotional communication, this dissertation investigates how commercial propaganda, such as public relations (PR) and advertising, influence the commercial media. From 1990 to 2009, …
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Putting policy in drive : coordinating measures to reduce fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. light-duty vehicles
… climate change have prompted efforts to reduce fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions in light-duty vehicles within the United States. Failures in the market for lower rates of fuel consumption necessitate government involvement. But efforts have been weakened by a controversial regulatory …
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A study of optimal automotive materials choice given market and regulatory uncertainty
… hypothesized that the increasing demand for fuel-efficient vehicles, recently updated Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regulation, and volatile U.S. sales markets may foreshadow a shift in the competitiveness of lightweight alternative materials relative to incumbent steels. To test this …
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An Integrated Framework For Configurable Product Assortment Planning
… environmental considerations, in particular, Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) requirements as well as life-cycle Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission constraints. We present a numerical experiment consisting of different vehicle propulsion technologies (conventional, Diesel, and hybrid) and …
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Fuel economy regulations and efficiency technology improvements in U.S. cars since 1975
… green- house gas emissions in the United States. Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards are the primary policy tool addressing petroleum consumption in the U.S., and are set to tighten substantially through 2025. In this dissertation, I address several interconnected questions on the …
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CloudThink and the Avacar : embedded design to create virtual vehicles for cloud-based informatics, telematics, and infotainment
… (VMT) monitoring and generation of fuel metrics to validate programs similar to the United States Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. This section also explores the value of open and interoperable data as well as transparency in hardware design. Section three describes …
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After the gas station : redevelopment opportunities from rethinking America's vehicle refueling infrastructure
… go largely unnoticed. Because their purpose - refueling vehicles - is so uniform and so integral to the existing automotive transportation system, stations share extensive siting and design similarities across many contexts. Recent corporate, market, and regulatory pressures have led to the …