Navistar, NASA Testing Trucking Aerodynamics

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Navistar, NASA testing trucking aerodynamics

02/22/2010 CHICAGO -- Future aerodynamic technology current being tested by NASA and Navistar could save the trucking industry nearly $10 billion annually.

Navistar, which makes International brand trucks and MaxxForce diesel engines, has teamed up with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, NASA's Ames Research Center and the U.S. Air Force to develop and test devices for reducing the aerodynamic drag of heavy-duty trucks.

The full-scale tests in the wind world's largest tunnel at the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex, indicate that new technology added to the national truck fleet could increase fuel efficiency on the vehicles by 12 percent and save 3.4 billion gallons of fuel.

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