Alcoa Defense to Develop Fuel Efficient Military Vehicle for the US Army

The US Army TARDEC has launched the Fuel-Efficient Ground Vehicle Demonstrator (FED) project in 2008, and was meant to develop a prototype vehicle that would showcase fuel efficient technologies, while maintaining the vehicle's performance, payload capacity and protection of soldiers.

Alcoa Defense has created an aluminum structure for the Army's FED that will make the vehicle up to 10 percent lighter than a comparably sized steel vehicle and reduce fuel consumption by 6-7 percent because th...

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