2009 DOE Vehicle Technologies Program Annual Merit Review

The 2009 DOE Hydrogen Program and Vehicle Technologies Program Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting was held May 18-22, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. The review encompassed all of the work done by the Hydrogen Program and the Vehicle Technologies Program: a total of 304 individual activities were reviewed for Vehicle Technologies, by a total of 142 reviewers. A total of 1,286 individual review responses were received for the technical reviews.

The objective of the meeting was to review the FY 2008 accomplishments and FY 2009 plans for the Vehicle Technologies Program, and provide an opportunity for industry, government, and academic to give inputs to DOE on the Program with a structured and formal methodology. The meeting also provided attendees with a forum for interaction and technology information transfer.

The results from the review are contained in the following report.

The document is very large; it has been divided into sections for easier use. Each section is available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF. Download Adobe Reader

Entire document in one file (PDF 8.7 MB)
Cover and Contents (PDF 554 KB)
Introduction (PDF 64 KB)
1. Hybrid and Vehicle Systems Technologies (PDF 888 KB)
2. Energy Storage Technologies (PDF 1.4 MB)
3. Power Electronics & Electrical Machines Technologies (PDF 747 KB)
4. Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies (PDF 1.4 MB)
5. Fuels and Lubricants Technologies (PDF 587 KB)
6. Materials Technologies (PDF 757 KB)
7. Materials Technologies: Propulsion Materials (PDF 697 KB)
8. Educational Activities and Technology Integration Activities (PDF 931 KB)
9. Technology Validation (PDF 454 KB)
10. Safety, Codes, and Standards (PDF 386 KB)
11. Acronyms (PDF 108 KB)
12. Cross-Reference of Project Investigators, Projects, and Organizations (PDF 766 KB)