Advanced Automotive Technology: Visions of a Super-Efficient Family Car
(IVHS) is also excluded, technologies more closely although there is a case to be made for integrating advanced vehicle with the ...
technologies currently known that have zero tailpipe emissions of criteria pollutants.^5 The California LEV program (and its pro ...
Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies to coordinate federal R&D in these technologies, and signed a Memorandum of Underst ...
agencies and industry together around the same table. However, while the defining goal of PNGV--developing midsize vehicles with ...
Major Automotive R&D Programs in Federal Agencies The discussion below characterizes the major advanced automotive R&D p ...
U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development, and Engineering Center, which is the world’s largest producer of military groun ...
Department of Energy DOE’s involvement in advanced automotive research dates back to its inception in 1976 and before that in it ...
FtieZ Cell Program. There has been widespread consensus that proton exchange membrane (PEM) fhel cells are the most suitable typ ...
The Heat Engine Technologies Program encompasses both light-duty and heavy-duty engine technologies, including research on turbi ...
cooperation with USCAR’s Automotive Materials Program. Funding in FY 1995 was $12 million with a requested increase in FY 1996 t ...
m. — .. Hydrogen Technical Advisory Panel has been established to provide oversight of the federal program. The current DOE hydr ...
(including safety systems and biomechanics) contracts was about $10 million, with an equal amount requested for crash avoidance ...
technology for cylinder liners. NASA’s indicated PNGV-related budget ($5 million in FY 1995 increasing to $7 million in FY 1996) ...
million budget that is shared equally between DOE, USCAR and the electric utility industry. DOE finding in FY 1995 was $26.9 mil ...
representatives of the auto industry, utilities, universities, regulators, and others to work in five key areas: establishing st ...
l l l product-related research on advanced powertrains,materials, and so forth, manufacturing technologies to match the new vehi ...
Government-Funded Programs. Active interest of French automakers in electric and hybrid vehicles dates back to the late 1960s. I ...
Germany Government-Funded R&D. Contemporary research in Germany on EVs began in 1971. 25 By 1978, a fleet of 140 electric va ...
m! — In May 1994, OTA staff visited four German automakers: Volkswagen, BMW, Porsche, and Mercedes Benz, and one supplier, Rober ...
Industry R&D. In 1992, Volvo unveiled its Environmental Concept Car, which used a gas turbine with an electric drivetrain. M ...
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