Final report: U.S. competitive position in automotive technologies

Technical Report · Mon Sep 30 00:00:00 EDT 2002

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/808238· OSTI ID:808238

Albert, Michael B; Cheney, Margaret; Thomas, Patrick; Kroll, Peter

Patent data are presented and analyzed to assess the U.S. competitive position in eleven advanced automotive technology categories, including automotive fuel cells, hydrogen storage, advanced batteries, hybrid electric vehicles and others. Inventive activity in most of the technologies is found to be growing at a rapid pace, particularly in advanced batteries, automotive fuel cells and ultracapacitors. The U.S. is the clear leader in automotive fuel cells, on-board hydrogen storage and light weight materials. Japan leads in advanced batteries, hybrid electric vehicles, ultracapacitors, and appears to be close to overtaking the U.S. in other areas of power electronics.

• Research Organization: CHI Research, Inc., Haddon Heights, NJ (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EE); U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Technology Policy (US)
• DOE Contract Number: FG01-02EE50678
• OSTI ID: 808238
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: 30 Sep 2002
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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