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"A green revival could be in store for GM’s Hummer, that late 20th century icon of gas-guzzling excess famously associated in the public mind with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The notoriously oversized passenger car was based on the military’s Humvee, and now the U.S. Amy is unveiling two next-generation Humvee prototypes that use 70 percent less fuel than a comparable model, the M1114 Humvee.
One of the new prototypes is a diesel-fueled model called the Fuel Efficient Ground Vehicle Demonstrator, or FED Alpha for short. It has been undergoing testing at the Aberdeen Test Center in Maryland.
The other prototype, FED Bravo, has a hybrid-electric drive. It will be ready for testing later this year.
Since a conventional fully armored Humvee only gets about 4 mpg, a 70 percent savings only translates into a fuel efficiency of about seven to twelve miles per gallon for the FED vehicles, depending on whether the mission is in urban areas or open highways. That might not seem too impressive, but even a modest increase in fuel efficiency would translate into significant savings on the Army’s annual fuel costs, while reducing the risk to soldiers escorting fuel convoys to remote bases."
"A green revival could be in store for GM’s Hummer, that late 20th century icon of gas-guzzling excess famously associated in the public mind with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The notoriously oversized passenger car was based on the military’s Humvee, and now the U.S. Amy is unveiling two next-generation Humvee prototypes that use 70 percent less fuel than a comparable model, the M1114 Humvee.
One of the new prototypes is a diesel-fueled model called the Fuel Efficient Ground Vehicle Demonstrator, or FED Alpha for short. It has been undergoing testing at the Aberdeen Test Center in Maryland.
The other prototype, FED Bravo, has a hybrid-electric drive. It will be ready for testing later this year.
Since a conventional fully armored Humvee only gets about 4 mpg, a 70 percent savings only translates into a fuel efficiency of about seven to twelve miles per gallon for the FED vehicles, depending on whether the mission is in urban areas or open highways. That might not seem too impressive, but even a modest increase in fuel efficiency would translate into significant savings on the Army’s annual fuel costs, while reducing the risk to soldiers escorting fuel convoys to remote bases."
