Fuel-efficient tractor (IMAGE)

Purdue University

Fuel-efficient tractor

Caption

Agricultural tractors and implements use a lot of hydraulic power. By creating new solutions to optimize their hydraulic control systems, Purdue researchers (left to right) Andrea Vacca, Xiaofan Guo, Patrick Stump, and Jake Lengacher are working to make tractors more powerful and fuel-efficient.

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Purdue University photo/Jared Pike

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