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Proof · field validation

Measured, not asserted.

The institute is judged on evidence. Every figure below traces to a published paper or a public patent record; nothing ships without a citation.

Proof · lead with validation

US + India1
Patents granted on the method
3,0582
ISO 8178 emission tests captured
1243
Engines · three continents
$247.6M4
Workpaper-backed economic impact
1 US 10,718,284 B2 · IN 553,3702 Starboard Research WP1 v3.1 / WP2 v2.13 Validated field corpus, WP1 v3.14 Cumulative impact, WP2 v2.1 (2011–2019 realized fleet)

Figures trace to the published WP1 / WP2 record and are reported across measurement tiers separately — realized, workpaper-backed figures are shown here; identified-pilot totals are detailed in the papers.

Open-pit mining operation — a representative heavy-duty diesel deployment environment

Validated where the machines actually work — across three continents.

Three-way ground truth

At a surface coal mine, a carbon-balance-derived fuel rate was compared against fill-to-fill volumetric measurement (supervised by the engine OEM's field-engineering team) and ECM-reported fuel rate on the same five-engine fleet. The derived rate tracked physical measurement; ECM estimates diverged by up to 17%.

Source · WP1 v3.1

Decade of deployments

Realized, workpaper-backed results from the 2011–2019 fleet (76 vehicles) account for ~76.4M gallons of diesel and ~776,000 metric tons of CO₂ avoided — reported across measurement tiers, never blended.

Source · WP2 v2.1

OEM-agnostic by construction

The method operates on data already present on the SAE J1939 CAN bus and recognized test standards (ISO 8178, SAE J1003, 40 CFR Part 1065), making it transferable across displacement, manufacturer, and EPA emission tier.

Source · Pre-Aftertreatment v1.0
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