PSAT is a key tool for disigning advanced hybrid vehicles

PSAT is available for licensing

Because of the large number of possible advanced vehicle architectures, including gasoline, diesel, electrical, hybrid, and fuel cells, it is impossible to manually build every single powertrain configuration due to time and cost constraints. Because of this, the role of simulation in vehicle development has become critical to automakers and suppliers.

To address this important issue, Argonne National Laboratory, under a contract sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), developed the Powertrain Systems Analysis Toolkit (PSAT), a flexible, reusable model for simulating advanced vehicles.

Selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as its primary vehicle simulation tool to support its FreedomCAR and Vehicle Technologies Program, PSAT received R&D Magazine’s prestigious 2004 R&D100 Award, which recognizes the 100 most technologically significant new products & processes from around the world in a calendar year. PSAT provides automotive and truck manufacturers and their suppliers the ability to assess advanced technologies by providing accurate performance and fuel economy simulations.

Because of its flexibility, PSAT has been used by Argonne and other users in a wide range of applications.

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