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Triple Safety: Lightweighting Automobiles to Improve Occupant, Highway, and Global Safety

AUTHOR: Schewel, Laura
DOCUMENT ID: 2008-23
YEAR: 2008
DOCUMENT TYPE: Journal or Magazine Article

This paper explores how lightweighting vehicles can improve the safety of vehicle occupants and highway users as well as environmental health. The author posits solutions that enhance vehicle performance and reduce environmental impacts, and focuses on demonstrating the ability of lightweight vehicles to provide such a solution. SAE Paper 2008-01-1282 © 2008 SAE International. This paper is posted on this site with permission from SAE International. As a user of this site, you are permitted to view this paper on-line, and print one copy of this paper at no cost for your use only. This paper may not be copied, distributed or forwarded to others for further use without permission from SAE.

Transformational Trucks: Determining the Energy Efficiency Limits of a Class-8 Tractor Trailer

AUTHORS:
Ogburn, Michael
Ramroth, Laurie
Lovins, Amory
DOCUMENT ID: T08-08
YEAR: 2008
DOCUMENT TYPE: Report or White Paper

This paper reports on the technological improvements of efficiency of tractor-trailers that can raise the efficiency of the vehicles dramatically. The authors argue that transformational change of tractor-trailer design can benefit economic prosperity, public health, energy security, and environmental quality.

Port Innovation Workshop Final Report

AUTHOR: Johns, Stephanie
DOCUMENT ID: T07-12
YEAR: 2007
DOCUMENT TYPE: Report or White Paper

In 2007, RMI conducted an innovation workshop for the Port of Seattle, Port of Tacoma, and Puget Sound Clean Air Agency with the goal of improving sustainability and energy efficiency of their cargo container operations. This report describes the efforts involved in the process and the resulting outcomes

Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles and Environmentally Beneficial Load Building: Implications on California’s Revenue Adjustment Mechanism

AUTHORS:
Hansen, Lena
Mims, Natalie
Swisher, Joel
Taylor, Zephyr
DOCUMENT ID: T08-10
YEAR: 2008
DOCUMENT TYPE: Report or White Paper

This paper considers how California's regulations pose a challenge for the widespread production of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Strategies for changing the state's regulations, and therefore allowing the increased production of such vehicles, are proposed.

Feebates: a Legislative Option to Encourage Continuous Improvements to Automobile Efficiency

AUTHORS:
Mims, Natalie
Hauenstein, Heidi
DOCUMENT ID: T08-09
YEAR: 2008
DOCUMENT TYPE: Report or White Paper

A feebate is an incentive policy that encourages the continuous improvement of automobile fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions by providing incentives for manufacturers to build more efficient vehicles and rewarding consumers who purchase more efficient vehicles. This paper explores: why RMI believes a feebate is a valuable tool, recent analysis that RMI has done on feebates, what the current status of the feebate is, and how the feebate could interact with existing laws.

Profitable GHG Reduction Through Fuel Economy

AUTHOR: Ogburn, Michael
DOCUMENT ID: T07-11
YEAR: 2007
DOCUMENT TYPE: Presentation

This presentation outlines practical ways that Class-8 truck fleets can realize significant fuel savings and increased profits through fuel efficiency. Focusing on components that save fuel and providing case studies that have capitalized on these opportunities, RMI's researchers demonstrate how a 25% fuel economy improvement is possible today using existing technologies that can be retrofitted onto almost any highway truck.

Truck Efficiency and GHG Reduction Opportunities in the Canadian Truck Fleet

AUTHORS:
Ogburn, Michael
Ramroth, Laurie
DOCUMENT ID: T07-10
YEAR: 2007
DOCUMENT TYPE: Report or White Paper

This paper, which was written at the request of the Canadian Trucking Alliance, quantifies fuel and greenhouse gas emission savings from more efficient trucks. The paper identifies fuel-efficiency devices that can offset engine-efficiency loses.

Dust to Dust's Assumptions About the Prius and the Hummer

AUTHORS:
Hauenstein, Heidi
Schewel, Laura
DOCUMENT ID: T07-01
YEAR: 2007
DOCUMENT TYPE: Report or White Paper

To check the results presented in "Dust to Dust," a life cycle analysis that claims to show that a Hummer has less environmental impact than a Prius, RMI authors manipulated Argonne National Labs automotive life cycle analysis model to incorporate some of "Dust to Dust's" stated assumptions. The model found that, even including known "Dust to Dust" assumptions, the Prius still has less environmental impact over it's lifetime

Letter to NHTSA on Revised Light Truck CAFE Standards

AUTHOR: Lovins, Amory
DOCUMENT ID: T05-13
YEAR: 2005
DOCUMENT TYPE: Letter

This letter was written by Amory Lovins in 2005 and sent to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. In the letter, Lovins suggests technological and political ways in which the NHTSA can improve efficiency through new standards for light trucks.

Legislative Options to Improve Transportation Efficiency

AUTHORS:
Datta, Kyle
Mims, Natalie
DOCUMENT ID: T05-03
YEAR: 2005
DOCUMENT TYPE: Report or White Paper

This white paper provides state legislatures with options to improve vehicle transportation efficiency within the state. Traditional policy prescriptions that rely on prices, taxes, or quotas are well known, but politically fraught, and have led to gridlock at the federal level.

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