DOE to Give Fund for Vehicle Developments
by: iverpenn
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The world is now full of advancements. And as man’s
mechanism to adapt to these advancements, several individuals and groups
support different funded projects to further make the present technologies even
more sophisticated. Whether these technologies give advantages or
disadvantages, what is important is that they are built with the aim of helping
mankind.
Among other things, countries are in competition with
regard to advanced technology. When one country has invented a system, expect
that another country will release a new invention. And so others do the same.
And this pattern goes on and on.
On this issue, the state performs an important role in
supporting its constituents to produce more and more advanced technologies.
Five next generation vehicle research projects were chosen
by the United States Department of Energy to
receive a maximum of $19 million from the DOE fund in order to further develop
plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), and
fuel cell vehicles (FCVs). A total of $33.8 million projects chosen for
negotiation of awards were mixed with the industry’s cost share.
The five chosen projects support advanced
power electronics and electric motor technologies so that they would be able to
help introduce advanced PHEV, HEV, and FCV applications to the market. This was
in support of President George Bush’s Twenty in Ten plans. These seek to
minimize by twenty percent the country’s gas consumption within the decade
through maximizing the use of alternative and renewable sources of energy and
advancing the current Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) standards.
While also increasing vehicle efficiency,
the projects will emphasize the reduction of cost, weight, and size of electric
drive and power conversion devices. High-temperature three-phase inverters,
high-speed motors, integrated traction drive systems, and bi-directional DC/DC
converters are the four areas in which the chosen projects will focus on.
Selected projects are the Delphi Automotive
Systems in
For negotiation of an award reaching to $4.9
million intended for high-temperature three-phase inverter research, the Delphi
Automotive Systems in
For negotiation of an award of up to $1.7
million, the DOE has chosen Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
of Blacksburg, Virginia. The project will focus on developing an advanced soft
switching inverter in order to minimize switching and power losses. The Azure
Dynamics, Powerex, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology are
the other team members for the project.
To work on developing high-speed electric
motors, the General Electric Global Research of Niskayuna, New York, has been
chosen for negotiation of an award of up to $3.4 million. With team members GE
Motors and the
Maker of quality GMC suspension bushing, General
Motors Corporation in
To work on a vehicle system research on
order to determine the optimum operating battery and DC-link voltages, allowing
for higher efficiency and less costs, the U.S. Hybrid Corporation of
As an essential part of DOE’s Vehicle
Technologies Program, advancing vehicle technologies aims to develop and
improve vehicle technologies and alternative fuels that could tremendously
reduce the need for petroleum, lessen emissions of air pollutants and
greenhouse gases, and enable the
About the Author
Iver Penn is a Mass Communications graduate who hails from Wyoming. She is at present an associate editor of a publishing company in Colorado.
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