MY ETT News » boat tail http://www.myettnews.com The Trailer Industry Starts Here! Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:29:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Boat Tail Reduces Truck Fuel Consumption By 7.5 Percent http://www.myettnews.com/2009/11/boat-tail-reduces-truck-fuel-consumption-by-7-5-percent/ http://www.myettnews.com/2009/11/boat-tail-reduces-truck-fuel-consumption-by-7-5-percent/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:29:22 +0000 Rhonda Flathman http://www.myettnews.com/?p=1584 A public-private partnership platform has released promising road results using boat tails on trailers. The Dutch PART (Platform for Aerodynamic Road Transport) announced a 7.5 percent reduction in fuel consumption in testing conducted over the course of one year. PART’s ambition is to achieve a 20 percent reduction in fuel consumption and CO2 emissions in the road transport industry by 2020. A new generation of aerodynamic side skirts tested by the group is supposed to debut later this year.

Dutch Testing Yields 7.5 Percent Reduction in Fuel, Emissions

Dutch Testing Yields 7.5 Percent Reduction in Fuel, Emissions


A boat tail, a tapering protrusion mounted on the rear of a truck, leads to fuel savings of 7.5 percent. This is due to dramatically-improved aerodynamics, as shown by road tests conducted by the Dutch PART (Platform for Aerodynamic Road Transport) public-private partnership platform.

Public highways

A boat tail is a tapering protrusion about two metres in length mounted on the rear of a truck. The boat tail had already proved itself during wind tunnel experiments and computer simulations, both conducted at TU Delft, in theory and using small-scale models. Now an articulated lorry fitted with a boat tail has also undergone extensive testing on public highways.

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