A Farewell to Fossil Fuels: Answering the Energy Challenge

In this article published in Foreign Affairs, Amory Lovins describes a U.S. transition from fossil fuels--a blueprint detailed in Reinventing Fire-- that requires pursuing transformational change in automotive efficiency, design of buildings and factories, and the electric system.

 

Reinventing Fire Transportation Sector Methodology

This document provides RMI's methodology for the analysis of the transportation sector in Reinventing Fire.

 

Preface to the Chinese Edition of Winning the Oil Endgame

In the preface to the Chinese edition to Winning the Oil Endgame, Amory Lovins puts the book in context for the Chinese audience. Winning the Oil Endgame offers a strategy for ending US oil dependence.

 

Transformational Trucks: Determining the Energy Efficiency Limits of a Class-8 Tractor Trailer

This paper reports on the technological improvements of efficiency of tractor-trailers that can raise the efficiency of the vehicles dramatically. The authors argue that transformational change of tractor-trailer design can benefit economic prosperity, public health, energy security, and environmental quality.

 

Profitable GHG Reduction Through Fuel Economy

This presentation outlines practical ways that Class-8 truck fleets can realize significant fuel savings and increased profits through fuel efficiency. Focusing on components that save fuel and providing case studies that have capitalized on these opportunities, RMI's researchers demonstrate how a 25% fuel economy improvement is possible today using existing technologies that can be retrofitted onto almost any highway truck.

 

Truck Efficiency and GHG Reduction Opportunities in the Canadian Truck Fleet

This paper, which was written at the request of the Canadian Trucking Alliance, quantifies fuel and greenhouse gas emission savings from more efficient trucks. The paper identifies fuel-efficiency devices that can offset engine-efficiency loses.

 

Winning the Oil Endgame: Executive Summary

The Executive Summary of Winning the Oil Endgame briefly outlines RMI's strategic plan to end oil dependence by the 2040s.

 

Hypercars, Hydrogen, and the Automotive Transition

Lightweighting is the key to making vehicles superefficient and safe. In this invited technical review paper in the International Journal of Vehicle Design, Amory Lovins and David Cramer explain why, using as an example Hypercar's 2000 virtual design of the Revolution 99-mpg SUV. The paper also shows how Hypercar's Fiberforge process promises to achieve that goal at competitive cost, and how this manufacturing breakthrough can accelerate an exciting new stage in automaking and the emergence of the hydrogen economy.

 

FreedomCAR, Hypercar, and Hydrogen

This presentation on the energy efficiency options in cars and airplanes, and on the U.S. Department of Energy's FreedomCAR programs was given to the U.S. House of Representatives' Science Committee's Energy Subcommittee.

 

Design and Manufacture of an Affordable Advanced-Composite Automotive Body Structure

Reducing vehicle weight is critical to improving fuel economy and addressing range, performance, size, and cost challenges associated with fuel-cell and hybrid propulsion systems. This paper describes the design, fabrication, and assembly approach used for the carbon-fiber composite body structure in Hypercar, Inc.'s Revolution concept vehicle.

 

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