A Fuel Economy Evaluation of a Safety Compliant Single Passenger Vehicle 921664
The Nexus vehicle was designed and built for Transport Canada at the University of Saskatchewan to demonstrate that a safety compliant single passenger commuter vehicle could attain extremely low fuel consumption rates at modest highway speeds.
Experimentally determined steady state fuel consumption rates of the Nexus prototype ranged from 1.6 L/100 km at 61 km/hr up to 2.8 L/100 km at 121 km/hr. Fuel consumption rates for the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) driving cycle tests were 4.5 L/100 km for the SAE Urban cycle and 2.0 L/100 km for the SAE Interstate 55 cycle. The efficiency of the power train was determined using a laboratory dynamometer, enabling the road test results to be compared to the results from an energy and performance simulation program. Predicted fuel economy was in good agreement with that determined experimentally. Widespread use of single passenger commuter vehicles would substantially reduce current transportation energy consumption.
Citation: Johnston, R., Hertz, P., and Krause, A., "A Fuel Economy Evaluation of a Safety Compliant Single Passenger Vehicle," SAE Technical Paper 921664, 1992, https://doi.org/10.4271/921664. Download Citation
Author(s):
R. T. Johnston, P. B. Hertz, A. E. Krause
Affiliated:
Purdue Univ., University of Saskatchewan
Pages: 10
Event:
International Off-Highway & Powerplant Congress & Exposition
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Related Topics:
Fuel consumption
Energy consumption
Fuel economy
Road tests
Simulation and modeling
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Roads and highways
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