ARGONNE, Ill. (Nov. 30, 2007) -- Researchers from Argonne National Laboratory's Transportation Technology R&D Center (TTRDC) will present 11 papers during the Electric Vehicle Symposium-23 that will be held in Anaheim, Calif., from Dec. 2-5.

• "Advanced lithium-ion batteries for plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles," by Paul Nelson, Khalil Amine, Aymeric Rousseau and EnerDel Corp.'s Hiroyuki Yomoto.
• "In-situ torque measurements in hybrid electric vehicles powertrains," by Theodore Bohn, Michael Duoba and Richard Carlson.
• "Sorting through the many total-energy-cycle pathways possible with early plug-in hybrids," by Linda Gaines, Andrew Burnham, Aymeric Rousseau and Danilo Santini.
• "Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle control strategy parameter optimization," by Aymeric Rousseau, Sylvain Pagerit and Tennessee Tech University's David Gao.
• PHEV "all-electric range" and fuel economy in charge-sustaining mode for low SOC operation of the JCS VL41 M Li-ion battery using battery HIL," by Neeraj Shidore, Theodore Bohn, Michael Duoba, Henning Lohse-Busch, and Philip Sharer.
• "Plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles: How does one determine their potential for reducing U.S. oil dependence"" by Anant Vyas, Danilo Santini, Michael Duoba, and the Electric Power Research Institute's Mark Alexander.
• "PHEV hymotion Prius model validation and control improvements," by Qiandong Cao, Sylvain Pagerit, Richard Carlson, Aymeric Rousseau.
• "Where is the early market for PHEVs"" by Danilo Santini.
• "On-road evaluation of advanced hybrid electric vehicles over a wide range of ambient temperatures," by Richard Carlson, Michael Duoba, Danny Bocci and Henning Lohse-Busch.
• "Impact of component size on plug-in hybrid vehicles energy consumption using global optimization," by Dominik Karbowski, Chris Haliburton and Aymeric Rousseau.
• "Test procedures and benchmarking: Blended-type and EV-capable plug-in hybrid electric vehicles," by Michael Duoba, Richard Carlson and Argonne co-op student Ji Wu.

Each of the papers will be available at www.transporation.anl.gov shortly after they have been presented.
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