Office of FreedomCAR and Vehicle Technologies Program WideFunding Opportunity Announcement

Document Type:	Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:	DE-PS26-05NT42296-00
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 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Energy Technology Laboratory(NETL), on behalf of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy?s(EERE) Office of FreedomCAR and Vehicle Technologies (OFCVT), is seekingapplications for cost-shared projects covering a range of technologies fromvarious programs within the OFCVT.  DOE anticipates awarding cooperativeagreements under this Funding Opportunity Announcement (hereinafterreferred toas announcement).This announcement has multiple areas of interest and two separate closingandevaluation periods from which projects are anticipated to be selected andawarded.  The first closing and evaluation period of this announcement isaimedat receiving applications in three technology areas:1. Advanced Combustion Engine Enabling Technologies;2. Integration of On-Board Idle Reduction Technology in Heavy Trucks asOriginal Manufacturer Factory Equipment Option; and3. Advanced Vehicle Testing and EvaluationIn the area of interest for Advanced Combustion Engine EnablingTechnologiesthe objective is to accelerate the rate of development of technologies,components, or methods that support or enable improved fuel economy,performance, and emissions in internal combustion engines.  The proposedworkis to focus on technologies supporting high efficiency clean combustiontechnology including various forms of low-temperature and homogeneouschargecompression ignition combustion.  This area of interest is ?fuel neutral.?Fuels used in research can be either ?gasoline-like? or ?diesel-like? aslongas the overall goals are supported.  Applicants are to propose and developnewor early development concepts through two initial phases of developmentincluding a Phase I for the proof-of-principle demonstration of thefeasibilityof the concept and a Phase II for development and testing of thattechnology atthe next logical stage of scale-up, be it laboratory, bench, pilot, ornear-commercial scale.In the area of interest for the Integration of On-Board Idle ReductionTechnology in Heavy Trucks as Original Manufacturer Factory EquipmentOptionthe objective is to achieve on-line factory (preferably) or dealerinstallationof full function (heating, cooling, and electrical) idle reductiontechnologiesin heavy-duty trucks by model year 2007.  This objective is to be achievedthrough approaches aimed at completing the design and engineeringdevelopmentnecessary to successfully and cost-effectively integrate on-board idlereduction technologies into the vehicle design and assembly process.Applicants are to propose work that mitigates all technical, cost, andacceptability issues sufficiently enough to lead to the on-line factory(preferably) or dealer installation of a minimum of 1000 full function(heating, cooling, and electrical) idle reduction systems in heavy-dutytrucksby model year 2007, ramping up significantly in subsequent years.In the area of interest for Advanced Vehicle Testing and Evaluation theobjective is to conduct repeatable, controlled, laboratory and closed-trackbaseline performance tests, on-road accelerated reliability testing, andfleettesting to provide data for evaluation and use in the DOE FCVT modeling andsimulation activities for validating the advanced vehicle computer modelsutilized by OFCVT, as well as enhancing the datasets used by these models.Thedata will also be provided to the advanced vehicle manufacturers to supporttheir vehicle development activities and to potential users of the advancedvehicles to support their acquisition decisions.

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