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Clean air. Safe, congestion-free highways and transit systems. Efficient vehicles powered by domestic, renewable energy. More time to enjoy life.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Sustainable Transportation Program brings together scientists and engineers, commercialization experts, and technology transfer specialists from across laboratory directorates to address today's transportation challenges.

Through partnerships with government, industry, and academia, ORNL's Sustainable Transportation Program research and development efforts are resulting in knowledge discovery and technology development, maturation, and implementation. The program drives four broad and integrated areas of concentration to advance the mobility of people and goods within America's transportation systems: vehicle, energy, information, and infrastructure.

Highlights

ORNL strengthens DOE-funded clean vehicles team
ORNL researchers focus on puting more electric and hybrid vehicles on the road.

ORNL, Industry Collaborate in Advanced Battery Research
$6.2 million project on lithium ion battery production challenges.

ORNL to get Carbon Fiber Technology Center
DOE has allocated $34.7 million to establish the Carbon Fiber Technology Center at ORNL.

R&D 100 Awards
ORNL has won eleven R&D 100 Awards for transportation system advances.