To: posterchild
Looks like every other truck of the future I’ve seen over the past 30 years.
2 posted on
03/03/2014 12:40:14 PM PST by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: posterchild
Cool! I’ll be looking for one.
3 posted on
03/03/2014 12:40:20 PM PST by
jch10
(John Beohner has got to be removed from the Speaker position.)
To: posterchild
To: posterchild
Looks sort of like a big hornet
The eyes I mean
6 posted on
03/03/2014 12:43:43 PM PST by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: posterchild
An increase in fuel efficiency of 35% would be a great cost savings for them.
To: posterchild
Looks nice except for when the driver wants to have a conversation with a passenger.
9 posted on
03/03/2014 12:55:31 PM PST by
fso301
To: posterchild
It's an ultra modern cab-over with a big toe in the front?
Driver will be the first to arrive on the scene of an accident...
12 posted on
03/03/2014 1:00:41 PM PST by
BlueDragon
(Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.Proverbs 29:18)
To: posterchild
Pretty Cool Looking
With a 'Prius Catcher' too!
13 posted on
03/03/2014 1:02:17 PM PST by
libertarian27
(FreeRepublic Cookbooks 2011 & 2012 - Click Profile)
To: Darksheare
Perhaps the inspiration for a Knight Rider-ish weekly TV show.
18 posted on
03/03/2014 1:07:34 PM PST by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: posterchild
I have long wondered why semi trucks were not more aerodynamically designed. I have see fairings on the top of the cab to apparently reduce air turbulence in the area between the top of the cab and the trailer, but the front on the truck always seems to be a flat surface. I remember that experiments in the 1930s with making the front of steam locomotives more streamlined failed to produce any significant improvements, but with today's computer assisted designs could a truck like the WAVE become more common?
To: posterchild
20 posted on
03/03/2014 1:10:21 PM PST by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: posterchild
Wow carbon fiber chassis.
That thing is gonna be orders of magnitude more expensive than a current model. (not to mention crash repair costs)
Not sure if this is gonna work economically.
33 posted on
03/03/2014 1:59:36 PM PST by
nascarnation
(I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
To: posterchild
Stupid Stupid Stupid. The dumba$$ company needs to add fender skirts. I get so pissed off in the rain trying to pass a semi.
To: posterchild
It supposedly uses a turbine/electric hybrid, but I would think a diesel/electric hybrid would be efficient, since a smaller diesel could operate at peak performance RPM levels. The batteries would not be expected to run long without the engine, but act as a booster bank for when extra power is needed.
41 posted on
03/03/2014 2:32:14 PM PST by
Jeff Chandler
(Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
To: posterchild
Another angle. Pretty good-lookin'.
To: posterchild
These Futurliner concepts were pretty cool.
To: posterchild
About 75% of the aerodynamic drag on a tractor-trailer is due to the trailer.
44 posted on
03/03/2014 3:31:30 PM PST by
Rodamala
To: posterchild
Even a small increase in efficiency for semi trucks would yield a huge savings - can’t imagine that improving aerodynamics will help that much though.
47 posted on
03/03/2014 6:23:45 PM PST by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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