ADVANCED VEHICLE SYSTEMS ASSESSMENT. VOLUME IV. SUPPORTING ANALYSES. PART 1. PREFERENCE ANALYSES. PART 2. AFTERMARKET ANALYSES

Part One of this volume describes the ranking of 34 alternative five-passenger advanced vehicles, using multiattribute decision analysis. The vehicles were designed to operate without consuming any petroleum-based fuels and to have an unrefueled range of 100, 150, or 250 miles. The vehicle propulsion systems included a methanol-fueled spark-ignition engine, a fuel cell, ten different types of batteries in an all-electric configuration, and ive different battery types in hybrid configurations withh a methanol-fueled engine. Seven attributes affected the rankings: initial cost, life-cycle cost, maintainability, safety, unrefueled range, relative fuel economy, and refuel time. Part Two of this volume deals with an investigation of the availability of fuel from nonpetroleum sources of fuel from nonpetroleum sources in view of projected supply, demand, and prices in the 1990s. 1990s.