VorBlade vs Crosswind

Crosswinds could double the air drag adding up to 40% of fuel consumption and 25% to driver fatigue. At crosswinds, turbulent low-pressure wakes are formed behind and on leeward side of a vehicle. These wakes have much larger size than without crosswind thus increasing significantly fuel consumption. Asymmetric airflow creates large side forces and yaw and rolling moments continuously pushing a vehicle towards leeside and increasing driver’s workload. The forces and moments might throw the vehicle from a lane or a road or roll it over thus increasing greatly driver’s fatigue and risk of an accident.

VorBlade-generated vortices adapt naturally to any changes in driving conditions. Crosswind itself carries the vortices towards low-pressure zones (LPZ) on backsides and a leeside of a vehicle. These powerful small-diameter spirals pour intensely high-pressure air into the LPZ, shrink it and compensates effectively low pressure. Altogether those effects reduce greatly air drag and the hazardous side forces and yaw and rolling moments. Unique VorBlade Crosswind Mitigator^TM subsystem consists of VorBlade generators on both sides of a trailer, box truck, bus or RV roof hence strong lengthy vortices go straight towards LPZ on the leeside of a vehicle. Affecting directly LPZ on the vehicle’s leeside is the only way to reduce efficiently crosswind-related air drag and dangerous side force and moments acting on a vehicle.

VorBlade^TM systems work effectively on semi-trucks & trailers, box trucks, buses and RVs. The systems reduce harmful impacts of crosswinds up to 60%, improve vehicle’s stability by about 50%, reduce driver’s fatigue by about 15% and a risk of involvement in accident by 9%.