Comparison of the Fuel Consumption Performance of Rear and Front Wheel Drive Vehicles via Road Test
Abstract
This paper presents an on-site investigation of a fuel consumption comparison between a Front Wheel Drive (FWD) and Rear Wheel Drive (RWD) vehicle as those are the two most common drive type used in the commercial vehicle. The study focuses on the fuel consumption rate by comparing the average distance achieved by one liter of fuel using the same type of engine. The road test was varied from the normal highway, uphill, downhill, as well as normal city road to give more insight about the fuel consumption characteristics of each variation. From the results, it is known that each road type gives significant different characteristics to the fuel consumption. Also, the comparison between FWD and RWD regarding fuel consumption gives interesting results for further vehicle transmission developments.
Full Text:
PDFReferences
Gaikindo, “Grand Wholesales data 2022”, Gaikindo, 2022, p. 1 – 3.
J. J. Eckert, F. M. Santiciolli, L. C. A. Silva, and F. G. Dedini, “Vehicle drivetrain design multi-objective optimization,” Mech Mach Theory, vol. 156, p. 104123, Feb. 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2020.104123.
C. T. P. Nguyen, B.-H. Nguyễn, J. P. F. Trovão, and M. C. Ta, “Optimal drivetrain design methodology for enhancing dynamic and energy performances of dual-motor electric vehicles,” Energy Convers Manag, vol. 252, p. 115054, Jan. 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.enconman.2021.115054.
R. Marino, S. Scalzi, “Integrated Active Font Steering nd Semiactive Rear Differential Control in Rear Wheel Drive Vehicles,” Proceedings of the 17th World Congress, The International Federation of Automatic Control, Seoul Korea, 2008, p. 10732 – 10737.
S. Cyril and H. Manikandan, “Optimization of engine and transmission mounting system for a V6 front wheel drive vehicle,” Mater Today Proc, vol. 72, pp. 2564–2568, 2023, doi: 10.1016/j.matpr.2022.10.028.
C. Guo, C. Fu, R. Luo, and G. Yang, “Energy-oriented car-following control for a front- and rear-independent-drive electric vehicle platoon,” Energy, vol. 257, p. 124732, Oct. 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.energy.2022.124732.
T. Muro, “Comparison of the traffic performance of a two-axle four wheel drive (4WD), rear wheel drive (RWD), and front wheel drive (FRW) vehicle on loose sandy sloped terrain,” J of Terramechanics, vol 34, No 1, p. 37 – 55, 1997.
T. Muro, T. Shigematsu, “Automatic control system of a rear-wheel drive vehicle moving on a sloped weak sandy terrain,” J of Terramechanics, vol 35, p. 239 – 263, 1998.
A. Janulevičius, V. Damanauskas, and G. Pupinis, “Effect of variations in front wheels driving lead on performance of a farm tractor with mechanical front-wheel-drive,” J Terramech, vol. 77, pp. 23–30, Jun. 2018, doi: 10.1016/j.jterra.2018.02.002.
S. M. Shafaei, M. Loghavi, and S. Kamgar, “Benchmark of an intelligent fuzzy calculator for admissible estimation of drawbar pull supplied by mechanical front wheel drive tractor,” Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture, vol. 4, pp. 209–218, 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.aiia.2020.10.001.
H. Zhang, Z. Jiao, Y. Shang, X. Liu, P. Qi, and S. Wu, “Ground maneuver for front-wheel drive aircraft via deep reinforcement learning,” Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, vol. 34, no. 10, pp. 166–176, Oct. 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.cja.2021.03.029.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31284/j.jasmet.2023.v4i2.4570
Refbacks
- There are currently no refbacks.
Copyright (c) 2023 Ahmad Yusuf Ismail, Abie Anggoardo Sandewa Akbar
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Mailing Address: Journal of Applied Sciences, Management and Engineering Technology - ITATS Institut Teknologi Adhi Tama Surabaya Jl. Arief Rahman Hakim No.100, Surabaya 60117 email: [email protected] Website : https://ejurnal.itats.ac.id/jasmet/index
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.