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Title: Electric and Hybrid Vehicles Program 18th annual report to Congress for Fiscal Year 1994

Abstract

The Department remains focused on the technologies that are critical to making electric and hybrid vehicles commercially viable and competitive with current production gasoline-fueled vehicles in performance, reliability, and affordability. During Fiscal Year 1994, significant progress was made toward fulfilling the intent of Congress. The Department and the United States Advanced Battery Consortium (a partnership of the three major domestic automobile manufacturers) continued to work together and to focus the efforts of battery developers on the battery technologies that are most likely to be commercialized in the near term. Progress was made in industry cost-shared contracts toward demonstrating the technical feasibility of fuel cells for passenger bus and light duty vehicle applications. Two industry teams which will develop hybrid vehicle propulsion technologies have been selected through competitive procurement and have initiated work, in Fiscal Year 1994. In addition, technical studies and program planning continue, as required by the Energy Policy Act of 1992, to achieve the goals of reducing the transportation sector dependence on imported oil, reducing the level of environmentally harmful emissions, and enhancing industrial productivity and competitiveness.

Publication Date:
Research Org.:
USDOE Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Washington, DC (United States). Office of Transportation Technologies
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
91943
Report Number(s):
DOE/EE-0059
ON: DE95014921; NC: NONE
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Apr 1995
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS; 25 ENERGY STORAGE; 30 DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION; 29 ENERGY PLANNING AND POLICY; ELECTRIC-POWERED VEHICLES; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; HYBRID ELECTRIC-POWERED VEHICLES; PROGRESS REPORT; FUEL CELLS; ELECTRIC BATTERIES

Citation Formats

. Electric and Hybrid Vehicles Program 18th annual report to Congress for Fiscal Year 1994. United States: N. p., 1995. Web. doi:10.2172/91943.
. Electric and Hybrid Vehicles Program 18th annual report to Congress for Fiscal Year 1994. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/91943
. 1995. "Electric and Hybrid Vehicles Program 18th annual report to Congress for Fiscal Year 1994". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/91943. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/91943.
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abstractNote = {The Department remains focused on the technologies that are critical to making electric and hybrid vehicles commercially viable and competitive with current production gasoline-fueled vehicles in performance, reliability, and affordability. During Fiscal Year 1994, significant progress was made toward fulfilling the intent of Congress. The Department and the United States Advanced Battery Consortium (a partnership of the three major domestic automobile manufacturers) continued to work together and to focus the efforts of battery developers on the battery technologies that are most likely to be commercialized in the near term. Progress was made in industry cost-shared contracts toward demonstrating the technical feasibility of fuel cells for passenger bus and light duty vehicle applications. Two industry teams which will develop hybrid vehicle propulsion technologies have been selected through competitive procurement and have initiated work, in Fiscal Year 1994. In addition, technical studies and program planning continue, as required by the Energy Policy Act of 1992, to achieve the goals of reducing the transportation sector dependence on imported oil, reducing the level of environmentally harmful emissions, and enhancing industrial productivity and competitiveness.},
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