National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is collaborating with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), eight other national laboratories and the industry on the Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines (Co-Optima) initiative. This first-of-its-kind effort is focused on combining biofuels and combustion R&D, building on decades of advances in both fuels and engines. The Co-Optima goal is to simultaneously transform both transportation fuels and vehicles to maximize performance and energy efficiency, minimize environmental impact and accelerate widespread adoption.
The Co-Optima initiative takes a three-pronged, integrated approach to identifying and developing:
- Engines to run more efficiently on affordable, scalable, and sustainable fuels.
- Fuels to work in high-efficiency, low-emissions engines.
- Marketplace strategies to make new fuels and vehicle technologies attractive to industry and consumers.
Project partners include:
- DOE Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy
- Vehicle Technologies Office.
- Bioenergy Technologies Office.
- National Laboratories
- Argonne National Laboratory.
- Idaho National Laboratory.
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
- Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
- Sandia National Laboratories.
