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Suggested Citation:"Acronyms and Abbreviations." Transportation Research Board and National Research Council. 2001. Review of the Research Program of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles: Seventh Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10180.
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Acronyms and Abbreviations

ac alternating current

ACC Advanced Composites Consortium

AEMD automotive electric motor drive

AIPM automotive integrated power module

AISI American Iron and Steel Institute

Al MCC aluminum metal matrix composite

ANL Argonne National Laboratory

APBF-DEC Advanced Petroleum-Based Fuel-Diesel Emission Control

ASM American Society of Metals

AVFL Advanced Vehicle, Fuel, Lubricant [Committee]

BIW body-in-white

BNL Brookhaven National Laboratory

BTU British thermal unit

CAD computer-aided design

CAFE corporate average fuel economy

CARB California Air Resources Board

CFRP carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer

CIDI compression-ignition direct-injection

CO carbon monoxide

CO2 carbon dioxide

CRADA cooperative research and development agreement

CRC Coordinating Research Council

CRT continually regenerating trap

Suggested Citation:"Acronyms and Abbreviations." Transportation Research Board and National Research Council. 2001. Review of the Research Program of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles: Seventh Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10180.
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dc direct current

DECSE Diesel Emission Control Sulfur Effects

DIATA direct-injection, aluminum, through-bolt assembly

DME dimethyl ether

DMM dimethoxymethane

DOE U.S. Department of Energy

EE Tech Team Electrical and Electronics Systems Technical Team

EES electrochemical energy storage

EGR exhaust-gas recirculation

EPA Environmental Protection Agency

EPRI Electric Power Research Institute

ESD Engineering Society of Detroit

EUCAR European Council for Automotive Research and Development

FEA finite element analysis

FMVSS Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard

FRP fiber-reinforced polymer

FT Fischer-Tropsch

FTP Federal Test Procedure

GFRP glass-fiber-reinforced polymer

GM General Motors Corporation

HC hydrocarbon

HCCI homogeneous charge compression ignition

HEV hybrid-electric vehicle

HHV higher heating value

ICE internal combustion engine

IFC International Fuel Cells

IGBT insulated gate bipolar transistor

IIHS Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

IMA integrated motor assist

kWe kilowatt electric

LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory

LEV low-emission vehicle

LHV lower heating value

Li-ion lithium ion

LIMBT lightweight injection-molded glass-fiber-reinforced plastic body technology

LIP lithium ion polymer

Suggested Citation:"Acronyms and Abbreviations." Transportation Research Board and National Research Council. 2001. Review of the Research Program of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles: Seventh Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10180.
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LSHC low-sulfur low-aromatics high-cetane petroleum-based diesel

MMC metal matrix composite

mpg miles per gallon

MTBE methyl tertiary-butyl ether

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NHTSA National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

NiMH nickel metal hydride

NO x nitrogen oxides

NREL National Renewable Energy Laboratory

NSF National Science Foundation

OAAT Office of Advanced Automotive Technologies

ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory

PAH polyaromatic hydrocarbon

PEM proton exchange membrane

PM particulate matter

PNGV Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles

PNNL Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

POX partial oxidation

ppm parts per million

PSAT PNGV Systems Analysis Tool

R&D research and development

SAE Society of Automotive Engineers

SBIR small business innovation research program

SCR selective catalytic reduction

SNL Sandia National Laboratories

SO2 sulfur dioxide

SPCO Silicon Power Corporation

SUV sport utility vehicle

TACOM U.S. Army Tank Automotive Command

ULEV ultralow emission vehicle

ULSAB ultralight steel auto body

ULSAB-AVC Ultralight Steel Auto Body-Advanced Vehicle Concepts

USABC United States Advanced Battery Consortium

USCAR United States Council for Automotive Research

4SDI four-stroke direct-injection

Suggested Citation:"Acronyms and Abbreviations." Transportation Research Board and National Research Council. 2001. Review of the Research Program of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles: Seventh Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10180.
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Suggested Citation:"Acronyms and Abbreviations." Transportation Research Board and National Research Council. 2001. Review of the Research Program of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles: Seventh Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10180.
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Suggested Citation:"Acronyms and Abbreviations." Transportation Research Board and National Research Council. 2001. Review of the Research Program of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles: Seventh Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10180.
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This is the most recent report of the National Research Council's Standing Committee to Review the Research Program of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV), which has conducted annual reviews of the PNGV program since it was established in late 1993.

The PNGV is a cooperative R&D program between the federal government and the United States Council for Automotive Research (USCAR, whose members are DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Company, and General Motors) to develop technologies for a new generation of automobiles with up to three times the fuel economy of a 1993 midsize automobile. The reports review major technology development areas (four-stroke direct-injection engines, fuel cells, energy storage, electronic/electrical systems, and structural materials); the overall adequacy of R&D efforts; the systems analysis effort and how it guides decisions on R&D; the progress toward long-range component and system-level cost and performance goals; and efforts in vehicle emissions and advanced materials research and how results target goals.

Unlike previous reports, the Seventh Report comments on the goals of the program, since the automotive market and U.S. emission standards have changed significantly since the program was initiated.

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