Review of the 21st Century Truck Partnership by National Academy Press
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The technical showstoppers would get sufficient funding to address and commercialize them. In general, industry responses were favorable toward the 21CTP and would support its continuation if improved funding, discipline, coordination, and cooperation are provided. Finding 2-1. The 21CTP is operated as a virtual network of agencies and government laboratories, with an unwieldy structure and budgetary process. Agency personnel meet frequently and industry partners meet periodically for limited sharing and communication.
Finding 3-2. The goal of achieving 50 percent thermal efficiency at 2010 emissions was not clearly specified by the 21CTP. Each of the three industry partners used a different test procedure for measuring thermal efficiency (see Table 3-4). Likewise, none of the industry partners demonstrated 2010 emissions using the required EPA test procedures with aged engine and aftertreatment systems. A goal of this importance should be specified by standard test procedures so that the results are verifiable and compatible with industry standards.
DOE should continue to work toward demonstrating 50 percent thermal efficiency at the peak efficiency condition as well as representative 65-mph road load engine speed and torque condition. DOE should also consider reducing the number of industry contracts on specific engine projects that are funded so that only the engine systems most likely to meet the goal, based on system modeling and analytical projections, will be developed and tested experimentally. Finding 3-2. The goal of achieving 50 percent thermal efficiency at 2010 emissions was not clearly specified by the 21CTP.