Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2014

VTO is focused on critical barriers identified by joint government/industry research that are either unique to or common among three major combustion strategies: (1) Low?Temperature Temperature Combustion (LTC), (2) Dilute Gasoline Combustion, and (3) Clean Diesel Combustion. Carbon Fiber or Lightweight Materials.

Carbon Fiber 252

Carbon Fiber Engine Battery Powered Fuel 252

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will identify fuel properties that can be used to enable novel combustion strategies with low emissions of nitrogen oxides in an engine, and enhance existing models to capture the effect of additional key fuel properties on combustion. Light-weighting materials. Wisconsin Engine Research Consultants LLC.

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Carbon Fiber Lithium Ion Li-ion Vehicles 268

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Building on the SuperTruck activity, other projects aim at developing enabling technologies to improve the efficiency of heavy-duty diesel engines. This project will develop a low cost, ultra-compact power module using innovative integrated-cooling to increase power density, improve performance, and reduce cost.

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Fuel Carbon Fiber Lithium Ion Vehicles 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2012

DE-FOA-0000648 ) This funding will support the development of high-strength, lightweight carbon fiber composites and advanced steels and alloys that will help vehicle manufacturers improve the fuel economy of cars and trucks while maintaining and improving safety and performance.

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Carbon Fiber Vehicles Carbon Engine 218

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2014

These areas of interest apply to light, medium and heavy duty on-road vehicles. *One Area Of Interest (AOI) 1: Development of Low-Cost, High-Strength Automotive Aluminum Sheet. Cost of a finished, stamped component of no greater than $2 per pound of weight saved when compared to a comparable, baseline part.

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Emissions Vehicles Fuel Economy Carbon Fiber 252

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2014

Development of Low-cost, High Strength Automotive Aluminum Sheet (Area of Interest 1). Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) Development of Carbon Fiber Composites for Lightweight Vehicles (Area of Interest 2). Advanced Technology Powertrains For Light-Duty Vehicles Phase 2 (ATP-2) (Area of Interest 12).

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Plug-in Li-ion Plug Vehicles 299

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The engines shall have extremely low engine-out nitrogen oxides (NO x ) and particulate matter (PM) as a target; and shall have efficiency similar to state-of-the-art direct injection diesel engines (i.e., approximately 45% peak thermal efficiency for light duty and greater-than 50% peak thermal efficiency for heavy duty).

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Li-ion Carbon Fiber Vehicles Low Cost 231