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Automotive Fuel Economy: How Far Should We Go?
TABLE B–1 Estimates of Fuel Economy Improvement Potential of Various Technologies (percent)
[a] Fuel economy benefit for EEA incorporated into 4-valve engine.
[b] Apportioned to account for incorporation of limited deceleration fuel restriction in multipoint fuel injection.
[c] A savings as large as 12.5 percent can be inferred from discussion in Chapter 2 or Appendix C.
[d] Fuel economy benefit assumed same as that of CVT over 3-speed automatic transmission.
Source: Committee adaptation of summary of presentations to the committee, July 1991, prepared by A. Gilmour (Ford, 1991). Baseline technologies are arbitrary and have been changed from some original sources to put all estimates on a comparable basis.
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