Review of the Research and Development Plan for the Office of Advanced Automotive Technologies (1998) / Chapter Skim
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1 INTRODUCTION
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developing a vehicle with up to three times the fuel efficiency of comparable current vehicles while maintaining or improving current levels of performance, size, utility, and total cost of ownership and meeting or exceeding federal safety and emissions requirements (PNGV,1995~. Goal 3 of the PNGV includes the production of a concept vehicle by 2000 and preproduction prototypes by 2004.
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The spectrum of technologies addressed by OAAT pertain to advanced engines, fuel cells, high power energy storage,2 power electronics and electric machines, advanced automotive materials, alternative fuels, and batteries for EVs. The R&D plan includes: a description of the program goal and objectives; a detailed technical plan, with separate discussions of the status of each technology area, key technical barriers, strategies for overcoming technical barriers, and critical tasks and milestones for the development and validation of each technology; and a management plan detailing how the program will be managed and implemented.
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Biographical sketches of committee members are provided in Appendix A The committee noted that about 86 percent of OAAT funded R&D is contained in the PNGV program and that another NRC committee, the Standing Committee to Review the Research Program of the PNGV, has conducted three reviews of the PNGV program (NRC, 1994,1996,19971; a fourth review is under way.
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Chapter 3 addresses the detailed technical programs for vehicle systems and the seven major technology areas identified in the plan, namely, advanced engines, fuel cells, high power energy storage, power electronics and electric machines, advanced automotive materials, alternative fuels, and electric vehicle batteries.
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