Phase I I/UCRC University of Texas at Austin: Center for Efficient Vehicles and Sustainable Transportation Systems (EV-STS)

德克萨斯大学（UT）将在NSF工业/大学合作研究中心（I/UCRC）内建立一个高效车辆和可持续交通系统（EV-STS）的网站，加入亚拉巴马大学，亚利桑那州立大学和路易斯维尔大学的现有网站。 该中心的建立旨在支持美国汽车/地面运输行业努力满足有关车辆燃油经济性和排放的新联邦法规的要求，以及社会对经济和个人活动可持续性的期望。 EV-STS中心与行业的关键利益相关者-车辆制造商，部件和系统供应商，车队运营商，能源公司，地面运输行业基础设施提供商以及州和地方政府-合作，以确定重要的效率和/或可持续性相关问题，并制定研究项目，为这些问题开发创新的解决方案。EV的使命是-STS中心及其UT站点将利用企业，政府和学术合作伙伴之间的合作，开展和传播与行业相关的技术和工具研究，以促进节能，环境可持续的地面车辆的设计，制造，部署和运营。 这一使命的范围包括客车汽车、轻型和重型卡车以及机动越野设备。它既包括车辆级技术，也包括包含地面车辆的基础设施和运输系统。 该使命分为四个主要重点领域：（1）全电动汽车的动力系统和整个混合动力系统;（2）先进的内燃机和替代燃料;（3）非动力系统车辆系统;（4）地面交通系统和基础设施。 在EV-STS中，UT站点将包括所有四个推力领域的研究。 UT将进行研究，包括但不限于维持最省油的汽油发动机给定未来的排放限制的方法;替代燃料和替代能源选项之间作出选择的方法;现实世界的燃油经济性;应用一种新的数学工具，等几何，重型车辆的设计;美国轻型汽车车队的演变，消费者可以选择传统汽车、轻型电动汽车、插电式汽车和自动驾驶汽车;使用燃料电池作为增程器，以增加中型包裹运送车的零排放范围;以及开发一个数学模型，以便评估扩大电动公交车队的设施要求。

The University of Texas (UT) will establish a site within the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) for Efficient Vehicles and Sustainable Transportation Systems (EV-STS), joining existing sites at the University of Alabama, Arizona State University, and the University of Louisville. This Center has been established to support the U.S. automotive/ground transportation industry's efforts to meet demanding new federal regulations governing vehicle fuel economy and emissions, as well as society's expectations for improved sustainability in economic and personal activities. The EV-STS Center engages the industry's critical stakeholders - vehicle manufacturers, component and system suppliers, fleet operators, energy companies, ground transportation industry infrastructure providers, and state and local governments - in identifying important efficiency and/or sustainability related problems, and formulating research projects that develop innovative solutions to these problems.The mission of the EV-STS Center and its UT Site is to leverage collaborations among corporate, government, and academic partners to conduct and disseminate industry-relevant research on technologies and tools that facilitate the design, manufacture, deployment, and operation of energy efficient, environmentally sustainable ground vehicles. The scope of this mission includes passenger cars, light- and heavy-duty trucks, and motorized off-road equipment. It encompasses both vehicle-level technologies and the infrastructure and transportation systems that incorporate ground vehicles. The mission is divided into four primary thrust areas: (1) powertrains for full-electric vehicles and the entire continuum of hybrid powertrains; (2) advanced internal combustion engines and alternative fuels; (3) non-powertrain vehicle systems; and (4) ground transportation systems and infrastructure. Within EV-STS, the UT Site will include research in all four thrust areas. UT will perform research that includes but is not limited to methods for sustaining the most fuel efficient gasoline engines given future emissions limits; methods for making choices among alternative fuel and alternative energy source options; real-world fuel economy; application of a new mathematical tool, iso-geometry, to the design of heavy-duty vehicles; evolution of the U.S. light-duty vehicle fleet given consumer options among conventional vehicles, light electric vehicles, plug-in vehicles, and autonomous vehicles; use of fuel cells as range extenders to increase the zero emissions range of medium-duty parcel delivery vans; and development of a mathematical model to allow assessment of the facilities requirements for expansion of electric transit bus fleets.