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President George W. Bush asked Congress for $156 million for DOE's hydrogen/fuel-cell oriented FreedomCar program in 2005. This program also includes modest funds for high-efficiency clean-diesel research.
FreedomCar's budget would fall from $178 million in fiscal 2004. Despite steep cuts in diesel-oriented R&D, DOE hopes to continue some joint industry/government cooperative research in low- temperature combustion schemes, such as HCCI, renewable fuel blends and waste-heat recovery via thermoelectrics. DOE hopes to announce this month the industry/national laboratory/academia participants in five separate R&D thermoelectrics.
While hydrogen fuel cells someday might play a greater role in light-duty vehicles, "hydrogen is not a likely answer for the commercial sector," because of inherent energy-density/weight issues for trucks, DOE research shows.
—Jack Peckham
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