Assessing the Commercialization Status of the U.S. Department of Energy "SuperTruck" Technologies and their Applicability in Tactical Wheeled Vehicles

The U.S. Department of Energy established the SuperTruck program in 2009 with the goal of developing and demonstrating technologies that can vastly improve the efficiency of Class 8 over-the-road trucks. Several teams participated in the program and developed prototypes that demonstrated more than double the fuel economy of conventional trucks. As part of the High-Efficiency Truck Users Forum program CALSTART investigated the approaches taken by the different teams and analyzed the military applicability of the technologies that were employed.