Area of Interest 3 ? Advanced Vehicle Testing andEvaluation

Document Type:	Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:	DE-PS26-05NT42296-03
Posted Date:	Sep 09, 2004
Original Due Date for Applications:	Nov 10, 2004
Current Due Date for Applications:	Nov 10, 2004
Archive Date:	Jan 09, 2005
Funding Instrument Type:	Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity:	Energy Environment Transportation
Expected Number of Awards:	Not Available.
Estimated Total Program Funding:	Not Available.
Award Ceiling:	none
Award Floor:	$0.00
CFDA Number:	81.087 -- Renewable Energy Research and Development
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	Yes

Eligible Applicants

Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"

Agency Name

U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy TechnologyLaboratory, 3610 Collins Ferry Road (MS-I07) P.O. Box 880 Morgantown, WV26507-0880

Description

Please submit any questions to the Master FundingOpportunity Announcementunder the Submit Question Feature.  The Master Funding OpportunityAnnouncementis located at:https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/8df825feb86675de852564650046faea/fad392372ddd5b1485256f0a006bd0dc?OpenDocumentArea of Interest 3 ? Advanced Vehicle Testing and Evaluationa) This area of interest is for projects for conducting field evaluationsofadvanced vehicles and the development of new test procedures and/ormodifications of existing test procedures necessary to accomplish theperformance evaluations.   The scope of the work shall include baselineperformance,  accelerated reliability, and fleet testing ofstate-of-the-artlight-, medium-, and heavy-duty advanced technology vehicles and therequiredvehicle-to-infrastructure interface required for fueling vehicles with oneormore advanced technologies, including:i. Internal combustion engines burning advanced fuels, such as 100%hydrogenand hydrogen/compressed natural gas (H/CNG) blended fuels.ii. Hybrid electric, pure electric, and hydraulic drive systems.iii. Advanced batteries and engines.iv. Advanced climate control, power electronic, and other ancillarysystems.b) It is expected that one (1) cooperative agreement will be awarded inthisarea of interest.  Projects should be proposed with five 12-month periodsfor atotal project period of performance of 60 months.c) It is estimated that a total of approximately $4.5 million in DOE fundswillbe available for the entire performance period for the award in this areaofinterest.d) Applications in this area of interest are to be structured to includethefollowing five (5) tasks:Task 1:  Advanced Technology Vehicle Test Procedure DevelopmentTask 2:  Baseline Performance Testing of Advanced Technology VehiclesTask 3:  Accelerated Reliability Testing of Advanced Technology VehiclesTask 4:  Fleet Testing of Advanced Technology VehiclesTask 5:  Additional Procedure Development, Testing or Test Supporte) The minimum Recipient cost share is 50% for Tasks 1-4 and 0% for Task5.

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