Advanced Automotive Technology: Visions of a Super-Efficient Family Car

TABLE 5-5: PNGV Budgetary Changes in FY 1996

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FY 1996 dollars in

millions, requested

Agency/program R&D area change (in percent) Comments

DOC/NIST/ATP 8 new projects on composite manufacturing -lo (50%) Requested budget does not include an expected $30 million in new

initiated in FY 1995. auto-related contracts to be negotiated in FY 1996. However,

funding for ATP is controversial in Congress, and substantial cuts

have been proposed.

DOD/ARPA/EHV Hybrid and electric vehicle development -15 (loo%) Congressional add-on to ARPA budget in FY 1993, provides funds

to seven regional consortia including small businesses. Funding

zeroed out in President’s FY 19% budget request.

DOD/ARPA/TRP Advanced vehicle drivetrains? Supports development of “dual use” technologies; focus area on

vehicle drivetrains designated in FY 1995. Funding for TRP is

controversial in Congress, and large cuts have been proposed.

DOE/OTT/material Composite and light metal manufacturing +5 (42%) Joint work with USAMP and national laboratories.

technology processes, recycling, and crashworthiness

DOE/OTT/heat engine Develop gas turbine, spark-ignited piston, +6 (48%) Cost-shared work with industry, national labs.

technologies and diesel engines as hybrid vehicle APUs

DOE/OTT/electric and Battery and other energy storage device +3 (lo%) A $9 million increase for power storage devices for hybrids is

hybrid propulsion development offset by a $6 million decrease for advanced batteries.

DOE/OTT/electric and Automotive fuel cell development +19 (84%) Increase equally divided between 15 percent cost-shared contracts

hybrid propulsion with Big Three, and enabling research at national labs.

DOE/OTT/electric and Hybrid vehicle development +17 (45%) Adds a third contractor team to existing teams at Ford and General

hybrid propulsion Motors (presumably at Chrysler).

DOE/UT/hydrogen Production, storage, distribution, and -2 (22%) Reduction comes from stretch-out of joint industry/lab efforts on

research and conversion of hydrogen as fuel near-term natural gas reforming and storage system.

development

EPA Reducing emissions from four-stroke, +5 (65%) Addresses a key problem with hybrids.

direct-injection engines

KEY: APUs= auxiliary power unit; ARPA= Advanced Research Projects Agency; ATP =Advanced Technology Program; DOC = Department of Commerce;

DOD = Department of Defense; DOE = Department of Energy; EHV= Electric and Hybrid Vehicle program; EPA= Environmental Protection Agency; NIST =

National Institute of Standards and Technology; OTT= DOE’s Office of Transportation Technologies; TRP= Technology Reinvestment Project; USAMP = U.S.

Advanced Materials Partnership; UT= DOE’s Office of Utility Technologies.

SOURCE: Office of Technology Assessment, 1995; and U.S. Department of Energy, FY1996 Congressional

February 1995).

Budget Request, vol. 4, DOE/CR-0030 (Washington, DC: