Off-Road Vehicle Energy-Saving Potential

Technical Report · Tue Aug 17 04:00:00 EDT 2021

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1818063· OSTI ID:1818063

Freyermuth, Vincent ^[1]; Vijayagopal, Ram ^[1]; Rousseau, Aymeric ^[1]

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1. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Vehicle Technology Office (VTO) has played a critical role in enabling electrification and reducing fuel consumption in the automotive sector. However, the off-road vehicle sector accounts for 8% of transportation fuel, and that share is likely to increase over time as onroad vehicles move towards electrification. DOE can again play a key role in the off-road vehicle market by providing tools that can be used by academia and the industry to evaluate the impact of advanced technologies. The need for a pre-competitive simulation tool was also identified during a 2019 DOE-led workshop at Argonne National Laboratory that included OEMs and suppliers to this market. Autonomie, a powerful and robust system simulation tool for vehicle energy consumption and performance analysis, was developed by Argonne National Laboratory in collaboration with General Motors. Its application covers energy consumption and performance analysis throughout the entire vehicle development process by leveraging its plug-and-play powertrain and vehicle model architecture and development environment

• Research Organization: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Transportation Office. Vehicle Technologies Office
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-06CH11357
• OSTI ID: 1818063
• Report Number(s): ANL-21/37; 170286
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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