{"id":20336,"date":"2013-12-27T13:29:52","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T13:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=47cfa91f4abba5ecfc7323413209be3c"},"modified":"2013-12-27T13:29:52","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T13:29:52","slug":"disconnecting-all-wheel-drive-lowers-fuel-consumption-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/disconnecting-all-wheel-drive-lowers-fuel-consumption-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Disconnecting All Wheel Drive lowers fuel consumption, emissions."},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EcoTrac&amp;trade; minimizes effect of inertia and drag on&nbsp;vehicle&#8217;s driveline system by disconnecting&nbsp;select rotating components from driveline when not needed (while in front-wheel drive). Specifically, system disconnects at power transfer unit (PTU) and rear drive module (RDM) to allow portions of driveline &amp;ndash;&nbsp;PTU and RDM hypoid gear sets and associated&nbsp;bearings and driveshaft &amp;ndash; to discontinue rotating.&nbsp;This enables all-wheel-drive functionality without&nbsp;decreasing fuel economy&nbsp;or adding to emissions.<\/p>\n<p><b>This story is related to the following:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/news.thomasnet.com\/news\/mechanical-power-transmission\" target=\"_blank\">Mechanical Power Transmission<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/news.thomasnet.com\/news\/green-clean\" target=\"_blank\">Green &amp; Clean<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/news.thomasnet.com\/news\/transportation-industry-products\" target=\"_blank\">Transportation Industry Products<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Search for suppliers of: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasnet.com\/products\/automotive-transmissions-87381000-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Automotive Transmissions<\/a>  |  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasnet.com\/products\/transmissions-87380754-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Transmissions<\/a>  |  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasnet.com\/products\/allwheel-drive-vehicles-91572305-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">All-Wheel Drive Vehicles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-clean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}