Review of the 21st Century Truck Partnership, Second Report (2012) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction and Background
1 Introduction and Background
Pages 9-20
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is "that our nation's trucks and buses will safely and costappointed the Committee to Review the 21st Century Truck effectively move larger volumes of freight and greater Partnership, Phase 2, to conduct an independent review of numbers of passengers while emitting little or no pollution the 21st Century Truck Partnership (21CTP)
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projects that total transportation revised and updated, and a series of technical white papers fuel use will grow between 2009 and 2035 but that total that supported the 2006 roadmap have also undergone revi U.S. gasoline consumption will remain at about 9 million sions (DOE, 2010c, 2011)
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In addition, as CO2 and other greenhouse gases as air pollutants under the briefly discussed in the next section, the United States is Clean Air Act, thus empowering the EPA to regulate vehicle implementing policies on fuel economy that will directly impact the vehicle sector. These forces will pressure vehicle manufacturers to make renewed efforts to reduce both fuel 5 A summary review of these emissions standards and changes can be consumption and exhaust emissions.
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Again, as with LDVs, these standards and attention NHTSA and EPA have promulgated nationally coordinated to reducing fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions standards for tailpipe CO2-eq emissions and fuel economy will stimulate R&D on advanced technologies for reducing for light-duty vehicles (LDVs) -- which include both pas fuel consumption for MHDVs.
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. The DOE's Office of Vehicle Technologies, which is The other agencies associate their own existing programs within its Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy that are relevant to the goals of the 21CTP under the 21CTP (EERE)
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The DOE Transportation Energy system that is environmentally and economically sustain Data Book (Davis et al., 2009, Table 5.7) developed informa able…." Since early 1996, DOE's FreedomCAR and Vehicle Technologies Program (and predecessor offices)
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As noted in this chapter, the EPA and NHTSA issued There is great variety among MHDVs. Examples of Class 7-8 final standards on September 15, 2011, for GHG emissions vehicles include box trucks, refuse trucks, utility vehicles, and fuel efficiency standards for medium- and heavy-duty buses, dump trucks, cement trucks, tractor trailers, and many engines and vehicles.
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Davis, DOE, "U.S. Department of Energy Vehicle Technologies Program Overview," presentation to the committee, September 8, 2010, 12 Ken Howden, Director, 21st Century Truck Partnership, "21st Century Washington, D.C.
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* 5.500 8.260 5.588 5.502 5.463 5.531 6.015 7.217 4.374 6.564 5.670 5.662 0.000 Technical Support Services / SBIR / Peer Review 0.773 0.979 1.141 1.142 0.925 1.188 0.963 1.317 1.540 0.500 TOTAL Heavy Vehicle Technologies 45.600 66.476 76.017 86.648 80.950 78.588 66.603 44.765 40.847 34.545 29.687 45.486 36.719 *
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of 21CTP and which are the main areas that the committee After examining the 21st Century Truck Partnership acfocused on during its review. tivities and receiving presentations from federal government The President's FY 2012 budget request to Congress representatives and industry representatives, and outside indicates a substantial increase in funding for the Office of experts, as appropriate, the committee will write a report Vehicle Technologies, from about $304 million in FY 2010 documenting its review of the Partnership with recommendato a request of $588 million for FY 2012.
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An extensive Phase 1 review, the 21CTP had developed a roadmap and a economics literature on the subject points to the importance series of white papers on the main technical areas that the of R&D to promote technical innovation, especially for Partnership had focused on (DOE, 2006) ; during the current, research for which the private sector finds it difficult to Phase 2 review the 21CTP was in the process of modifying capture the returns on its investment; this is especially true these white papers.
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2011. Updated 21st Century Truck Partnership Technical White Fuel Partnership, Third Report.
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