Partnership Activities

• Develop and implement an integrated vehicle systems research and development (R&D) approach that validates and deploys advanced technology necessary for both commercial and military trucks and buses to meet the aforementioned national imperatives.
• Promote research for engine, combustion, exhaust aftertreatment, fuels, and advanced materials to achieve both significantly higher efficiency and lower emissions.
• Promote research focused on advanced heavy-duty hybrid propulsion systems that will reduce energy consumption and pollutant emissions.
• Promote research to reduce parasitic losses to achieve significantly reduced energy consumption.
• Promote the development of technologies to improve truck safety, resulting in the reduction of fatalities and injuries in truck-involved crashes.
• Promote the development and deployment of technologies that substantially reduce energy consumption and exhaust emissions during idling.
• Promote the validation, demonstration, and deployment of advanced truck and bus technologies, and grow their reliability sufficient for adoption in the commercial marketplace.