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TrailerTail Technology Projected to Save European Trucking Industry $65 Billion in Fuel Costs and Reduce Transport Carbon Emissions by 90 Million Metric Tons Over Next Decade

HAYWARD, CA — (Marketwire) — 09/17/12 — ATDynamics, a heading tellurian retailer of semi-trailer rear-drag aerodynamics technology, announced now that it will yield a market-proven TrailerTail® aerodynamics record to a European trucking market. Ten thousand TrailerTails have operated over 300 million miles on U.S. highways, saving a U.S. trucking attention dual million gallons of diesel to date that would differently be squandered overcoming a aerodynamic drag gifted by box-shaped semi-trailers. ATDynamics is operative with European regulators, trailer manufacturers and trucking fleets to safeguard a correspondence of limit potency TrailerTail record with EU highway regulations.

ATDynamics will denote TrailerTail record in counter # 25 A08 from Sep 18-27, 2012 during a 64th Annual International Motor Show (IAA). The association is also hosting a press discussion as follows:

  • ATDynamics: TrailerTail to Save Fuel for European Trucking Fleets
  • Date: Tuesday, Sep 18, 2012
  • Time: 9:30 a.m.
  • Place: Convention Center Messe Hannover, Room 107

ATDynamics is entering a European marketplace with dual TrailerTail technologies: a 50-centimeter (20-inch) device called TrailerTail ‘Eco 50′ that will be agreeable with European law Directive 97/27/EC, that is approaching to be upheld in Nov 2012 and a longer, safer and some-more fit 122-centimeter (4-foot) device used in a United States, marketed as a ‘Eco 120′ in Europe. ATDynamics is strongly enlivening European regulators to concede a smallest 122-centimeter length grant for rear-mounted aerodynamic devices. ATDynamics estimates that a European continent would boost a fuel check by over $3 billion annually by usually needing a 50-centimeter device. Pilot units are now accessible to European trucking fleets.

‘Building a tolerable tellurian travel complement will need fast creation and poignant general collaboration,’ pronounced Andrew Smith, CEO of ATDynamics, Inc. ‘TrailerTail is a proven record that can be implemented immediately by a general village and we demeanour brazen to continued work with trucking fleets, trailer manufacturers, regulators, environmental groups and reserve advocates to re-invent a figure of a complicated semi-trailer.’

TrailerTails adopted on a dual million long-haul semi-trailers handling opposite Europe would revoke ride CO emissions by 9 million metric tons annually and would save European trucking fleets an estimated $6.5 billion in diesel fuel per year. TrailerTails supplement additional reserve advantages by improving car fortitude in high winds, shortening mist in soppy continue and formulating a collapsible ‘crumple-zone’ during a back of trailers to revoke deadly rear-impact collisions.

The 4-foot TrailerTails have demonstrated 5 to 7 percent fuel assets during highway speeds in mixed SAE Type 2 J1321 tests conducted by eccentric third celebration contrast organizations in a United States. The fuel economy of ATDynamics’ TrailerTail ‘Eco 120′ was also tested in Europe progressing in 2012 by a partnership with TNT Express and heading Dutch trailer aerodynamics company, Ephicas, in that 6 percent fuel assets were reported over a five-month contrast period.

Using a patented, origami folding design, TrailerTails fall automatically out of a approach when a motorist opens a back doors of a semi-trailer to entrance cargo. The inclination are done of flexible, lightweight thermoplastic combination materials, can be commissioned by dual people in rebate than one hour and are accessible for new trailers or retrofits. Drivers can fall TrailerTails opposite a back doors of a semi-trailer to discharge additional car length in high trade areas.

About ATDynamics, Inc.
ATDynamics is a heading tellurian retailer of semi-trailer rear-drag aerodynamics technology. Its flagship rear-drag rebate technology, TrailerTail, was initial expelled in 2008 and is partial of a apartment of products engineered to revoke a fuel expenditure of a burden travel industry. Based in Hayward, California, ATDynamics is a target of countless creation awards and is a first member of a North American Council for Freight Efficiency. ATDynamics is an associate of a U.S. EPA SmartWay Transport Partnership, member of a American Trucking Association’s Technology Maintenance Council and is a pivotal partner in a DOE saved Super Truck initiative. For some-more information visit: www.atdynamics.com.

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