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The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Vehicle Technologies Office has funded hundreds of projects across the country that advance affordable, domestic transportation fuels and technologies.
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| Holistic and Energy-Efficient Rural County Mobility Platform (RAMP) | 2019 Advanced Vehicle Technologies Research | Carnegie Mellon University | In progress | Jan 2020 |
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Holistic and Energy-Efficient Rural County Mobility Platform (RAMP)Rural America, representing 97% of the U.S. land area, is home to 15% of the total U.S. population. Rural trips for commuting, shopping, health care, and community-based services have become increasingly longer in the past few decades. The project develops a holistic approach to address the mobility challenges in Greene County, a typical rural county in Southwestern Pennsylvania bordering West Virginia, and this approach can be replicable to all rural counties in the United States. Key to this is developing a capability that does not now exist in the United States, namely a "Rural County Mobility Platform" (RAMP) consisting of both an online platform and phone-based system for trip reservations, structured shuttle services, volunteer management, volunteer-request matching, and mobility information dissemination. This project helps in developing methods and algorithms to pilot a new hybrid service consisting of two complementary components: a volunteer-based ridesharing system and a highly structured shuttle service (not a typical fixed route, with flag stops). It also includes a new capability for more efficient data-driven operations of the existing Greene County Transportation Program and Waynesburg University shuttle services. Ultimately, the project will improve the overall energy efficiency of the local transportation system in meeting rural transportation needs. For more information on this project, check the Technology Integration 2020 Annual Report or Annual Merit Review presentation. Learn more about the 2019 Advanced Vehicle Technologies Research. |
$1,000,000 award from DOE $1,038,000 matching funds (cost share) |
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| Electric Vehicle Widescale Analysis for Tomorrow's Transportation Solutions (EV WATTS) | 2019 Advanced Vehicle Technologies Research | Akimeka, LLC | In progress | Oct 2019 |
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Electric Vehicle Widescale Analysis for Tomorrow's Transportation Solutions (EV WATTS)With the rapid increase in vehicle electrification, there is a need for up-to-date, publicly available national data on the usage of plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) and electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE), also referred to as charging stations. This data must be analyzed to understand end-user charging and driving patterns as well as vehicle and infrastructure performance to inform DOE's research planning. As part of this project, Energetics works with project partners to collect PEV and EVSE usage data from a wide range of fleet types and charging venues across the United States. The objectives of this project are to collect, validate, collate, analyze, summarize, and publicly release real-world use data and datasets from PEVs and EVSE to inform future research and deployment planning efforts. All datasets and reported results provide anonymize data to protect sensitive information. For more information on this project, check the Technology Integration 2020 Annual Report or Annual Merit Review presentation. Learn more about the 2019 Advanced Vehicle Technologies Research. |
$3,999,000 award from DOE Partners
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| Electrifying Terminal Trucks in Un-Incentivized Markets | 2019 Advanced Vehicle Technologies Research | Kansas City Regional Clean Cities | In progress | Oct 2019 |
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Electrifying Terminal Trucks in Un-Incentivized MarketsThe objectives of this project are to demonstrate the feasibility of electrification for freight yard and terminal fleets through pilot projects with three fleets and to generate outreach documents that can be used regionally and nationally to promote electrification in other terminal fleets. Through observation, interviews, and data capture, Metropolitan Energy Center (MEC) validates the speed with which fleets earn back the capital costs of replacing diesel terminal tractors with electric models, generates case studies that can be used throughout industrial markets in Clean Cities territories, and puts four Orange EV T-Series all-electric terminal trucks into permanent service within the regional territory. As part of this project, MEC is creating a deployment guide based on the real-world data and experiences of pilot fleets in Chicago and Kansas City so fleet operators across the country can make the move to clean, efficient freight handling. For more information on this project, check the Technology Integration 2020 Annual Report or Annual Merit Review presentation. Learn more about the 2019 Advanced Vehicle Technologies Research. |
$780,000 award from DOE $1,002,000 matching funds (cost share) Partners
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| Medium- and Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicle Deployment—Data Collection | 2019 Advanced Vehicle Technologies Research | CALSTART, Inc. | In progress | Oct 2019 |
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Medium- and Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicle Deployment—Data CollectionData on medium- and heavy-duty (MD and HD) battery-electric vehicles are lacking and yet very much needed as the trend towards transportation electrification is accelerating. This project directly addresses this problem by collecting, consolidating, organizing, and making available to DOE national laboratory researchers a large set of data from a wide range of electric MD and HD vehicles operating under different conditions. The usage data and datasets encompass approximately 200 diverse vehicle sizes, types, settings, and operating conditions. The primary focus is data collection and analysis for electric MD and HD vehicles (transit buses, school buses, trucks, and off-road equipment). This project is an effort to leverage any recently collected data while strategically planning for and collecting new data from upcoming electric vehicle deployment projects across the nation. The data and the extensive research facilitated by its consolidation help inform the industry, legislators/regulators, researchers, planners, and end-users about future deployments, energy demands, and user trends. For more information on this project, check the Technology Integration 2020 Annual Report or Annual Merit Review presentation. Learn more about the 2019 Advanced Vehicle Technologies Research. |
$2,167,000 award from DOE |
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| Decentralized Mobility Ecosystem: Market Solutions for 21st Century Electrified Mobility | 2019 Advanced Vehicle Technologies Research | Clean Fuels Ohio | In progress | Oct 2019 |
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Decentralized Mobility Ecosystem: Market Solutions for 21st Century Electrified MobilityThis project demonstrates an operationally and economically beneficial model for electric vehicle (EV) adoption and charging station deployment by transportation service fleets, such as taxis, carsharing fleets, and transportation network companies (TNCs), and by major parking providers, such as universities, airports, hotels, and corporate campuses. The decentralized mobility ecosystem hubs deployed in this project minimize the financial risks of EV usage for drivers (both commercial drivers and the general public) while strategically locating mobility hubs to maximize EV utilization across multiple use cases (taxi, TNC, delivery, carsharing). This innovative project addresses the main operational and economic barriers to vehicle electrification in the mobility and transportation services sectors. Additionally, the project is designed to create and disseminate a complete "Replication Playbook" geared toward transportation fleet or parking service providers. The playbook includes a fully framed business plan, design and engineering plans, new commercialized software applications and tools for turn-key scaling, and marketing tools. For more information on this project, check the Technology Integration 2020 Annual Report or Annual Merit Review presentation. Learn more about the 2019 Advanced Vehicle Technologies Research. |
$620,000 award from DOE $722,000 matching funds (cost share) Partners
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| Mid-Atlantic Electric School Bus Experience Project | 2019 Advanced Vehicle Technologies Research | Virginia Clean Cities | In progress | Oct 2019 |
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Mid-Atlantic Electric School Bus Experience ProjectThe Mid-Atlantic Electric School Bus Experience Project (MEEP) provides electric school buses for short-term demonstrations at no charge for selected school fleets in Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Electric school buses are an exciting tool for school districts as they can reduce operating costs, improve local air quality, achieve sustainability goals, and protect the health of children. The objective of the project is to provide local school districts (school administrators, mechanics, drivers, faculty, and students) with experience operating electric school buses in their fleets and to generate detailed, in-use data and information to allow other school districts to make future procurement decisions. For more information on this project, check the Technology Integration 2020 Annual Report or Annual Merit Review presentation. Learn more about the 2019 Advanced Vehicle Technologies Research. |
$670,000 award from DOE $998,000 matching funds (cost share) Partners
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