Review of the Research Program of the U.S. DRIVE Partnership Fifth Report (2017) / Chapter Skim
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2 Management, Strategy, and Priority Setting
2 Management, Strategy, and Priority Setting
Pages 33-47
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Partnership consists of a number of oversight groups and technical teams that have participants from government and industry. The Executive Steering Group (ESG)
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NOTE: OEM, original equipment manufacturer. Note that a target setting task force discussed later in this chapter is not part of the formal organizational structure.
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, and the Coordinating Research Council, as well as the Advanced Research rojects P Agency-Energy and the Office of Basic Energy Sciences. The various vehicle technical teams focus on advanced combustion and emission control, electrochemical energy storage, electrical/electronics, fuel cells, and materials, in addition to vehicle systems and analysis (see Figure 2-1)
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The Office of Fossil Energy has supported the development of technologies to produce hydrogen from coal and to capture and sequester carbon dioxide. The Office of Nuclear Energy has in previous years supported research into the potential use of high-temperature nuclear reactors to produce hydrogen, while BES supports fundamental work on new materials for storing hydrogen, catalysts, fundamental biological or molecular processes for hydrogen production, fuel cell membranes, and other related basic science areas (DOE, 2004a,b)
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Prior goals directly related to the technologies of interest to the Partnership included these: "Invest in developing electric vehicles technologies enabling one million electric drive vehicles on the road by 2015" and "reduce oil imports by 1/3 by 2025" (DOE, 2012) , revised in February 2016 to "reduce net oil imports by half by 2020 from a 2008 baseline" (Sarkar, 2016)
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• Use Hydrogen in ICEs or Fuel Cells: Hydrogen can be used in either an ICE or a fuel cell. Much of the work by DOE in the Partnership has focused on developing better fuel cells and technologies for hydrogen production.
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This task force established a four-step process for setting research targets. First, technical team inputs are used to define a virtual vehicle, using Autonomie software (developed by Argonne National Laboratory)
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The committee applauds the creation of the C2G working group and the TSTF, as well as the adoption of a more robust target setting process based on total system analysis. Prior reviews have found that systems analysis has been applied very effectively at the subsystem or micro level, but that overall total systems analysis guiding high-level Partnership direction was lacking.
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The Partnership describes its activity as technical information exchange: the technical teams develop technology roadmaps that include Partnership research targets as well as a host of cascading targets and other requirements. These are all developed by team consensus.
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Learned Stakeholder VTO and FCTO RD&D Portfolios Administration Workshops priorities, metrics, targets, roadmaps, Priorities plans Federal Advisory Committees (e.g., Congressional Hydrogen Technical Direction Requests for Advisory Information Committee)
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The analysis includes pathways not currently included in the Partnership portfolio as well, such as various biofuel pathways and natural gas. The working group draws expertise from the fuel pathway integration and vehicle systems analysis technical teams, as well as additional analytical expertise from outside of those teams, and presented its work to the U.S.
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This includes transitioning the C2G working group to a "permanent integrated systems analysis technical team," a proposal under discussion by Partnership leadership in August 2016. NRC Phase 4 Recommendation 2-2.
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Techni cal team roadmaps include multiple cascading and other targets, as well as requirements for each technology area, which align with the high-level Partnership targets and goals in the Partnership Plan. Each technical team conducts a portfolio review, and individual project reviews at the technical team level provide the opportunity to examine and discuss progress toward (and challenges to)
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Now that there is a more robust target setting task force and cradle-to-grave working group, the Executive Steering Group should meet more regularly than annually (perhaps at least quarterly) and participate directly in the portfolio analysis and target setting process for revised 2020 and new 2025 goals.
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2016. "Overview of the Fuel Cell Technologies Office." Presentation to the Committee on the Review of the Research Program of the U.S.
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