Review of the Research Program of the U.S. DRIVE Partnership Fourth Report (2013) / Chapter Skim
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. And in recent years, the price volatility of gasoline and diesel fuel has had significant economic impacts on the transportation sector, the automotive industry, the economy, and vehicle owners.
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The state is promoting the adoption of zero-mission vehicles (ZEVs) -- for example, electric vehicles and fuel cell e v ehicles -- by setting benchmarks for 2020 and 2025 for infrastructure to support such vehicles as well as for the adoption of such vehicles.
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As the Obama administration took office in early 2009, a redirection began to take place, with reduced R&D on hydrogen and fuel cell vehicles and increased attention directed toward technologies for the use of electricity to power lightduty vehicles, with emphasis on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and all-electric vehicles (or battery electric vehicles [BEVs]
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The DOE also turned to nearer-term applications, such as forklifts, for fuel cells. In 2011, the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership morphed into U.S.
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and hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) , including PHEVs, use of all-electric-drive vehicles, the deployment of biofueled ICE vehicles, and the deployment of fuel cell vehicles with onboard hydrogen storage as well as the addition of an infrastructure for supplying hydrogen to these vehicles (see Figure 1-1)
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The Partnership has been more directly involved in hydrogen production technologies needed for fuel cell vehicles, but in this case as well, many such technologies at large scale have been under the guidance of programs that are not part of the Partnership, such as DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) or its Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
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Technical teams, as noted in the next section, "Organization of the Partnership," specify and manage technical and crosscutting needs of the program. ORGANIZATION OF THE PARTNERSHIP The Partnership consists of a number of oversight groups and technical teams that have participants from government and industry (see Figure 1-2)
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Most of these technical teams focus on specific technical areas, but some, such as the hydrogen codes and standards technical team and the vehicle and systems analysis technical team, focus on crosscutting issues. A technical team consists of scientists and engineers with technology-specific expertise from the automotive companies, energy partner companies, utility industry companies, and national laboratories, as well as DOE technology development managers.
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(See Chapter 2 for a discussion of which associate members have been included.) The various vehicle technical teams focus on fuel cells, advanced combustion and emissions control, systems engineering and analysis, electrochemical energy storage, materials (especially on lightweight materials)
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Other goals directly related to the technologies under development in U.S. DRIVE are these: "Invest in developing electric vehicles technologies enabling one million electric drive vehicles on the road by 2015" and "reduce oil imports by 1/3 by 2025" (DOE, 2012)
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Much of the work by DOE in the partnerships has focused on developing better fuel cells and technologies for hydrogen production. If hydrogen is produced with low GHG emissions, then the full fuel cycle can have a low GHG footprint.
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DRIVE Partnership and the 21st Century Truck Partnership are examples of public-private efforts to support R&D and to develop advanced technologies for vehicles. As noted by the NRC (2012)
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5. Examine and comment on the Partnership's strategy for accomplishing its goals, espe cially in the context of ongoing developments across the portfolio of advanced vehicle technologies (e.g, biofuels, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, electric vehicles)
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Kung Robert J Nowak Brijesh Vyas Subgroup on Fuel Cells: Glenn A
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Rhoads Stephenson The committee subgroups also held several conference calls and site visits to collect information on technology development and other program issues. The subgroups also met with the Partnership technical team leaders to clarify answers to questions and better understand the team dynamics, and several committee subgroups visited different companies to gain insight on the status of various technologies (see Appendix D)
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Chapter 3 looks more closely at R&D for the various vehicle technologies, and Chapter 4 examines R&D for hydrogen production, distribution, and dispensing, as well as issues related to the use of biofuels and electricity for use in vehicles. Finally, Chapter 5 discusses the adequacy and balance of program efforts in the Partnership.
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2009. "Addendum to the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership Plan to Integrate Electric Utility Industry Representatives." February.
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2012. US DRIVE, Driving Research and Innovation for Vehicle Efficiency and Energy Sustainability.
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