Review of the Research Program of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles Fifth Report (1999) / Chapter Skim
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The PNGV declaration of intent includes a requirement for an independent peer review "to comment on the technologies selected for research and progress made." In response to a written request by the undersecretary for technology administration, U.S. Department of Commerce on behalf of the PNGV, the National Research Council in July 1994 established the Standing Committee to Review the Research Program of the Partnership for a New Generation of {OSCAR, which predated the formation of PNGV, was established to support intercompany, precompetitive cooperation to reduce the cost of redundant R&D in the face of international competition.
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Increase vehicle fuel efficiency to up to three times that of the average 1994 Concorde/Taurus/ Lumina automobiles with equivalent cost of ownership adjusted for economics. As the committee noted in its third and fourth reports, and as has been noted in a number of other studies, achieving significant improvements in automotive fuel economy and developing competitive advanced automotive technologies and vehicles can provide important economic benefits to the nation, improve air quality, improve the nation's balance of payments, and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere (DOE, 1997; NRC, 1992, 1997, 1998a, 1998b; OTA, 1995; PCAST, 1997; Sissine,1996~.
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The development of this vehicle, as the committee noted in its previous reports, is extremely challenging. But this ambitious goal and the PNGV program have helped stimulate the rapid development worldwide of the required technologies, which highlights the potential strategic value of programs like the PNGV and the importance of staying abreast of developments in foreign technology.
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The USCAR partners are developing separate concept vehicles, drawing on the spectrum of technologies developed under the PNGV and in-house proprietary technology, but neither the PNGV nor USCAR will design or build a concept car, a decision that the committee supports. Although the technologies most likely to result in concept and production prototype vehicles that could meet the Goal 3 requirements were selected during the downselect process, as other longer-range technologies continue to evolve, they may be incorporated into subsequent concept vehicles, as appropriate, and a series of concept vehicles will probably be developed after 2000.
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The goals were accepted as given, including goals 1 and 2, which, unlike Goal 3, are open-ended and do not have quantitative targets and milestones. The objectives of goals 1 and 2, in many instances, support progress toward Goal 3, especially in support of the development of manufacturing capabilities for the advanced automotive technologies being considered for the Goal 3 vehicle.
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