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Powertrain Strategies for the 21st Century

The Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation (OSAT) would like to invite you to participate in our project entitled Powertrain Strategies for the 21st Century. This project is part of OSAT's Future Powertrain Program whose goal is to provide companies with intelligence about future directions in the powertrain strategies of manufacturers and suppliers, consumer views of alternative powertrains, and future directions in mobility and sustainability.

The Powertrain Strategies for the 21st Century project focuses on the years 2015 and 2020 with a web-based survey of industry experts that may address the following issues:

Examine global powertrain strategies by surveying European, U.S., and Asian managers and engineers. Questions may include regional predictions of current and future powertrains by types of engines and transmissions; fuel-management systems; and any new technologies co-sponsors may suggest.
Compare from a global perspective how regulatory regimes affect powertrains
Benchmark current powertrain product development processes using financial, human resource, product development, and supply chain metrics.
Explore how alternative powertrains, such as hybrids, advanced diesels, and fuel cells, will affect the powertrain product development process. Questions may include timing, cost tradeoffs, time to market, engineering and sourcing issues, and challenges for particular types of alternative powertrains.
Develop a technology roadmap for powertrain and powertrain components over the next 15 years.

The Powertrain Strategies for the 21st Century project will not make comparisons between individual companies or identify individual company responses.

We plan to begin survey development and field the survey in June, complete data collection by September, and finalize our results by October. We will follow-up this longer survey with a shorter one in November with results in January. Our goal is to continue providing the expert panel with insights into future powertrain issues over a number of years.

For more information, please contact Bruce Belzowski at bbl@umich.edu or (734)764-5592.

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