Sponsored by a consortium of automotive suppliers, consultants, and automotive publications, this 2001 report provides forecasts of trends in automotive electronics to the year 2005. The report examines strategic and organizational issues, product timing, safety and usability standards, and probable automotive products and features.
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Sponsored by Baan USA and Hewlett-Packard, this 1998 report analyzes critical challenges to a key set of suppliers—the integrators—as they take on major technical and managerial responsibilities from the vehicle manufacturers. Building on both mail surveys and face-to-face interviews with system integrator CEOs, CFOs, and CIOs, the report explores the implementation and successful exploitation of IT technologies in the context of globalization, the restructuring of manufacturer and supplier, responsibilities, and relationships.
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An exploration into the possibilities of using Ethanol, a renewable fuel produced from the startch in corn, to power Fuel Cells. This report by the Renewable Fuel Assosociation lays the framework for converging the two promising technologies.
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A comprehensive strategy for Federal investment in Fuel Cell Technology and Fuel Cell Infrastructure. Compiled by the Breakthrough Technologies Institute Inc., in Washington D.C.
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The US Department of Energy and the Office of Advanced Automotive Technologies commissioned this comprehensive report by the Los Alamos National Laboratory. “Fuel Cells, Green Power” describes the inner workings of a fuel cell, transportation applications, and issues concerning fueling infrastructure and various fuel types.
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The US Fuel Cell Council is made up of the leaders of Businesses who have made a commitment to the commercialization of fuel cell technology. This 2001 report outlines the application of fuel cells in the vehicle marketplace and identifies the activities of the pioneers of the industry.
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OSAT collaborated with other organizations on a study to define the roadmap for implementing fuel cell vehicles, emphasizing the future market acceptance of these vehicles along with analyzing various fuel options for fuel cell vehicles
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The 2005 OSAT HybridCars.com Survey of Owners and Shoppers obtained information about the attitudes, viewpoints, and values of hybrid owners and shoppers through an online survey. The survey participants were recruited from visitors to the HybridCars.com site from December 7, 2004,to March1, 2005. Despite their enthusiasm for hybrids, owners and shoppers recognize that the hybrid market probably would not take off without financial and other government-provided incentives, public education about hybrids and the environment, and cost reductions.
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Sponsored by the three U.S. departments of Commerce, Energy, and Transportation to pursue successful outcomes from the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV), the 2000 report describes a methodology to estimate the demand for the fuels and technologies of the PNGV, which is similar to the newly proposed FreedomCAR program.
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The US Department of Energy's blueprint for the transition to a Hydrogen Economy. Based on the results of the National Hydrogren Energy Roadmap Workshop, November 12, 2002.
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The Powertrain Strategies for the 21st Century project is part of UMTRI-AAD’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 an on-going, long term panel study that focuses on the future directions of powertrains. The insights are based on survey responses of global powertrain experts across Europe, North America, and Asia looking at the years 2015 and 2020 with a web-based survey of industry experts that aims to: • 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.
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As a part of a broader University of Michigan project, OSAT examined how Detroit came to recognize and understand crucial elements of Japan's technology strategy, and how it proceeded to attempt the transfer of that technology to its own operations. Primary results identify the critical barriers to and facilitators of the industry's learning process and discuss the process itself, with a view to highlighting the lessons learned to enhance the learning rate of American industries.
Authors: Michael S. Flynn
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