The United States Department of Energy - Sandia National Laboratory visit to the China Automotive Energy Research Center (CAERC) at Tsinghua University

August 17, 2009

10am-12 noon

Location: CAERC Conference Room

AGENDA

10:00am Introductions

10:10am Overview of the Key Findings from the July Draft of the CAERC's China Automotive Energy Outlook – Professors ZHANG, WANG

11:00am Overview of the DOE Laboratory's Transportation Energy Roadmap Development - Drs. Carling and Pontau

11:30am Discussion of next steps with the DOE/Tsinghua/CAERCMOU and the possibility for leveraged funding and offering a visiting scholar program for a CAERC researcher to the USA

12 noon Adjourn

Meeting Participants:

Tsinghua CAERC representatives:

Professor ZHANG Xiliang, Director of Research for the CAERC

Professor WANG Zanji, Director of the CAERC

All CAERC researchers and staff are welcome

DOE Sandia Lab representatives from the USA:

Dr. Robert Carling, Director- Transportation Energy Center

Dr. Arthur Pontau, Deputy Director- Combustion and Industrial Technologies, Transportation Energy Center

DOE representatives from the US Embassy in Beijing:

Geoffrey Lyon, Energy Analyst

Mark Ginsberg, EERE Board of Directors (Invited)

GM representatives from Beijing office:

Kristin Zimmerman, Manager -Environment, Energy and Safety Policy

Benny Zhang, Manager- Global Energy Systems Center