Effective fuel management is an integral part of fleet operations and reducing these expenses can result in significant cost savings. This 2023 Automotive Fleet Guidebook covers a variety of traditional and alternative fuel considerations, giving readers a solid foundational understanding of fuel types, delivery systems, storage, technologies, and adoption of environmentally sustainable practices. This guide helps savvy fleet management professionals gain a deep understanding of both conventional and alternative fuels, and helps them comply with environmental regulations and corporate ESG commitments.
This new edition of Analytical Fleet Maintenance Management, the first update in more than a decade, details state-of-the-art technologies that can benefit fleet managers, and reviews the latest best practices in fleet maintenance management. This third edition contains new chapters on fleet management leadership, and facility design and maintenance, as well as updated arithmetic formulas throughout the book.
Technologies and Approaches to Reducing the Fuel Consumption of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles evaluates various technologies and methods that could improve the fuel economy of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, such as tractor-trailers, transit buses, and work trucks. The book also recommends approaches that federal agencies could use to regulate these vehicles' fuel consumption. Currently there are no fuel consumption standards for such vehicles, which account for about 26 percent of the transportation fuel used in the U.S. The miles-per-gallon measure used to regulate the fuel economy of passenger cars. is not appropriate for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, which are designed above all to carry loads efficiently. Instead, any regulation of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles should use a metric that reflects the efficiency with which a vehicle moves goods or passengers, such as gallons per ton-mile, a unit that reflects the amount of fuel a vehicle would use to carry a ton of goods one mile. This is called load-specific fuel consumption (LSFC). The book estimates the improvements that various technologies could achieve over the next decade in seven vehicle types. For example, using advanced diesel engines in tractor-trailers could lower their fuel consumption by up to 20 percent by 2020, and improved aerodynamics could yield an 11 percent reduction. Hybrid powertrains could lower the fuel consumption of vehicles that stop frequently, such as garbage trucks and transit buses, by as much 35 percent in the same time frame.
Worried about the rising costs of buying and maintaining vehicles? Concerned that you may exceed your fleet budgets? Fed up with receiving conflicting advice on how to run your vehicles? David Wilson converts a lifetime's knowledge of running commercial vehicles and helping others to run their fleets efficiently, into simple to understand guidance on the specific areas of your fleet to tackle in order to reduce your vehicle costs. He looks at how technical developments in the last 20 years have shaped the industry today and gives expert guidance into how the future is likely to unfold, especially for alternative fuels, to help those about to purchase or replace their fleet take the right decisions, including how to fund the fleet. The mysteries of how to plan, repair and maintain your commercial vehicles for maximum efficiency are uncovered, describing many simple tools and techniques to aid getting the specification right for your operation and the bit many people get wrong, when to replace. There is useful advice on your fleet management software and telematics, showing how to use Key Performance Indicators to get the absolute best from your systems. He even includes advice on reducing the cost of essentials such as fuel, AdBlue and oil, not forgetting how to properly control tyre spend. All the advice given is clearly summarised at the end of each chapter and the book, making it really easy to know what to do in order to minimise the cost of running your fleet. This book will provide all transport operators, especially fleet managers and fleet engineers, old and new, with the knowledge and guidance to help them excel in their role. Buy now at the introductory discounted price of 30% off RRP, both paperback and eBook.
The light-duty vehicle fleet is expected to undergo substantial technological changes over the next several decades. New powertrain designs, alternative fuels, advanced materials and significant changes to the vehicle body are being driven by increasingly stringent fuel economy and greenhouse gas emission standards. By the end of the next decade, cars and light-duty trucks will be more fuel efficient, weigh less, emit less air pollutants, have more safety features, and will be more expensive to purchase relative to current vehicles. Though the gasoline-powered spark ignition engine will continue to be the dominant powertrain configuration even through 2030, such vehicles will be equipped with advanced technologies, materials, electronics and controls, and aerodynamics. And by 2030, the deployment of alternative methods to propel and fuel vehicles and alternative modes of transportation, including autonomous vehicles, will be well underway. What are these new technologies - how will they work, and will some technologies be more effective than others? Written to inform The United States Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards, this new report from the National Research Council is a technical evaluation of costs, benefits, and implementation issues of fuel reduction technologies for next-generation light-duty vehicles. Cost, Effectiveness, and Deployment of Fuel Economy Technologies for Light-Duty Vehicles estimates the cost, potential efficiency improvements, and barriers to commercial deployment of technologies that might be employed from 2020 to 2030. This report describes these promising technologies and makes recommendations for their inclusion on the list of technologies applicable for the 2017-2025 CAFE standards.
