Review of the Research Program of the U.S. DRIVE Partnership Fifth Report (2017) / Chapter Skim
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4 Overall Assessment
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process of budgeting and managing its own projects, this level of detail seems to be less appropriate in this fifth review of the Partnership. Individual chapters have attempted to show the DOE funding allocated to various projects within the purview of the Partnership, but it must be stressed that these are DOE expenditures and not Partnership expenditures.
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Policy matters and deployment are by definition beyond the scope of the Partnership, but lack of infrastructure is arguably the biggest challenge to the widespread deployment of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, and continued emphasis by DOE on infrastructure enablers as well as an implementation plan is vital, whether within the Partnership or not. ADEQUACY, BALANCE, AND FUNDING Historically, in the transition from the predecessor Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles program into the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership, hydrogen-related activities represented roughly 70 percent of the relevant DOE budget, and non-hydrogen-related efforts consumed the remaining 30 percent.
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Since fuel cell vehicles are inherently electric vehicles, much of the work on electric drivetrain and improved batteries is equally applicable to both plug-in electric vehicles (both BEVs and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles) and HFCVs, and while the $100 million devoted to purely hydrogen and fuel cell technologies is a much smaller share of the total DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
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Basic Science $18.5M Fuel Cell R&D 33,000 36,000 35,000 Fossil Energy, SOFC $30.0M Hydrogen Fuel R&D 1 35,200 41,200 41,050 Manufacturing 3,000 4,000 3,000 FY 2015 DOE Total: ~$150M R&D Systems Analysis 3,000 3,000 3,000 Technology Number of Recipients funded Validation 11,000 7,000 7,000 from 2008-2015 Safety, Codes and 7,000 7,000 7,000 Standards Industry >110 Market Transformation 3,000 3,000 3,000 Universities >100 NREL Site-wide Laboratories 12 Facilities Support 1,800 1,800 1,900 Total 97,000 103,000 100,950 FIGURE 4-1 The Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy hydrogen and fuel cell budgets. SOURCE: Satyapal (2016)
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The dramatic change in domestic energy production has rendered the Obama administration's objective of reducing oil imports by 50 percent almost moot. While criteria pollutants will always be a concern and require substantial technical development to mitigate, it seems likely that in the future greenhouse gas (GHG)
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Recommendation 4-1. The Executive Steering Group should identify appropriate changes in Partnership focus to reflect the impact of new personal mobility models, shrinking opportunities to achieve the aggressive greenhouse gas goals, the transition of many candidate technologies into the competitive domain, and the significant infrastructure challenges in providing hydrogen at fueling stations at a competitive cost -- in particular, while retaining the focus on precompetitive technology enablers.
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