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Welcome to the official Web page of the FreedomCAR & Fuel Partnership's Electrical & Electronics Tech Team (EETT).
Mission
Achieving energy independence will depend upon developing hybrid-electric and fuel cell vehicles that are economically justifiable for the average consumer. Core to this effort will be the development of power electronics and electrical machines as key enabling technologies for propulsion systems. This will require reducing the production cost of current automotive electric traction systems by a factor of four. The cost/ease of integrating electric traction systems into vehicle platforms must be significantly improved. This dictates a size reduction of over 50% with increased modularity to support increased system configurations and economies of scale. For the successful adoption of the technology, system integration will also be essential to reduce part count and to improve reliability, durability and producibility.
As technology moves from gasoline hybrids to fuel cell electric vehicles, the Electrical and Electronics Technical Team (EETT) is challenged with advancing the technologies required to make electrically driven transportation preferred to today's petroleum-fueled vehicles. The team will encourage the national research community and industry to focus on developing technologies that will lead to the commercial viability of electric propulsion in the future.
Click here to view the EETT's technical roadmap.
Publications
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R & D News Highlights
Power of Automotive Collaboration Brochure' is Published
USCAR recently published "Power of Automotive Collaboration," a document highlighting the successful technology advances and breakthroughs resulting from USCAR's collaboration with the U.S. Government. Through USCAR, Chrysler, Ford and General Motors continue to collaborate with the U.S. Government to [...] Read More
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