Advanced Automotive Technology: Visions of a Super-Efficient Family Car
second-by-second interactions of all of the components. Such models have been developed by the auto manufacturers and others. Ne ...
Considering this wide range of claims, OTA developed its own “best guess” of technology performance and cost from test data in t ...
Conventional vehicles are least efficient in city driving, and it is in this type of driving that advanced vehicles make the lar ...
Timing Many in the automobile industry believe it is unlikely that rapid technological shifts will occur, as demonstrated by rec ...
than one power source; and fuel cell vehicles. Two time periods were examined-2005 The results of this analysis appear in tables ...
weighing only 2,300 pounds (versus 3,130 today); continuously variable transmission; drag coefficient of 0.25, compared to today ...
Although development of commercially successful mass-market EVs will require strong efforts with a number of different vehicle c ...
31 mpg to about 50 mpg.^42 Further, reducing the peak power requirement by 20 percent (to 40 kW/ton) would save an additional $1 ...
critical to developing successful hybrids. Because the hybrid’s fuel provides its energy storage, attaining high specific power ...
components, such as the energy storage devices, could allow the ultracapacitor-based hybrid (and the flywheel hybrid) to achieve ...
the hydrogen can either be carried onboard or produced from a hydrogen-rich fuel such as methanol.^50 Although there are several ...
PERFORMANCE AND COST OF OTHER TYPES OF LIGHT-DUTY VEHICLES Most of the results of OTA’s analyses of mid-size autos apply similar ...
costs, powertrain longevity, and maintenance costs as sufficient economic reasons to purchase them—aside from their societal adv ...
development state of PEM cells demands caution in such assessments, and we see little basis for them. In particular, fuel cells ...
particulate emissions, these emissions levels are still considerably higher than those of gasoline vehicles. The key emissions a ...
Fuel cell vehicles will have zero emissions unless they use an onboard reformer to process methanol or another fuel into hydroge ...
deceleration forces) in otherwise similar crashes (e.g., barrier crashes at the same velocity). Designing large, lightweight veh ...
. OTA’s relatively low incremental prices for advanced conventional vehicles rest partly on our assumption that the advanced tec ...
of new vehicles and current vehicle owners appear to have accepted current emission control- based vehicle requirements.^71 Cons ...
Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles. The centerpiece of the current federal effort in advanced automotive R&D is PN ...
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