Projects

Completed

Final stage Development and Demonstration;
Applied Research and Development;

SOCIAL SCIENCES (Economics and Econometrics)
SOCIAL SCIENCES (Business and Management Studies)
SOCIAL SCIENCES (Education)

Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Consumer attitudes and behaviour)
Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Technology acceptance)
Other (Energy technology information dissemination)

Project Contact
AEA Technology Environment

Standard

DfT

01 April 1999

01 February 2003

46 months

£56,964

Power; Transport

South East

DfT Freight logistics

Project Contact, AEA Technology Environment

Project Contact, Aztec Media Services

Fleet managers are frequently bombarded by sales literature for products that offer fuel savings that can seem too good to be true. Under pressure to cut costs, a busy manager might be strongly tempted by a ‘fit and forget’ device that pays for itself in months. Indeed, given the size of the savings, how could you justify turning down such an offer? On the other hand, what if the product doesn’t work? Installing it would waste money; worse still, i t might damage your vehicles. Even if it does no harm, it would be better to spend your money, and time, on other more effective fuel saving measures So how can you judge if these products are worth the investment?

This Guide is designed to help. It is crammed full with practical tips to help you separate the spurious from the genuine in fuel-saving claims. It also gives plenty of advice on how to conduct proper tests, if you get to the stage where you want to try a product out.

11/01/08