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ORNL Awarded $3.36 Million from ARPA-E for Connected and Automated Vehicle Research

Connected, automated vehicles will be part of an integrated control technologies-based system.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been awarded $3.36 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to develop novel control technologies for connected and automated vehicles with the goal of achieving a 20% improvement in vehicle energy efficiency.   The project will focus on developing and implementing control technologies in a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) to achieve the following: compute optimal routing to bypass bottlenecks, accide...

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