Open image in new window Figure 6 Force-time history for medium truck.
The road freight mode is divided into mini trucks, small trucks, medium trucks, and heavy trucks, and the main fuel consumed is diesel, especially for the medium truck transportation.
The force-time history for a medium truck (MT) with a GVWR of 11,900 kg (cabin load = 4,590 kg) and a wheelbase of 3,600 × 4,200 mm was obtained from a reputed vehicle manufacturing company with simulation techniques using LS-DYNA.
Medium trucks have GVW ratings of 10,000 to 26,000 pounds (4.5 to 11.8 metric tons) and are generally straight designs.
The medium trucks will use a lot of the technologies that cars do already — hybridization, for example, especially for urban delivery vehicles.
The Asia Pacific Tire segment manufactures and sells tires for automobiles, light and medium trucks, aircraft, and farm, earthmoving and mining equipment throughout the Asia Pacific region, and sells tires to various export markets, primarily through intersegment sales.
10 The Crash Aggressivity Index of LTV, compared with the reference case PC (0.00), increased for vans (0.32) and medium trucks (0.48), and then for heavy trucks (0.40) and truck tractors (0.21) it decreased.
The Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Company in Hangzhou, China, will supply 250,000 to 350,000 radial medium-truck tires a year, Cooper of Findlay, Ohio, said.
Cooper, which focuses on passenger and light- and medium-truck replacement tires, is the fourth-largest tire maker in North America.
The medium-truck collisions are less severe.
The methodology is applied to series plug-in hybrid electric and extended-range electric powertrain architectures for medium duty truck applications.
