FOCUS: ELECTRIFIED VEHICLES After graduate school, I returned to Argonne to lead testing efforts for a series of US DOE-sponsored vehicle competitions where universities would develop and build electrified vehicles, and we the organizers, would test them on a track and in a laboratory to measure performance, efficiency, and emissions. The students were motivated by the glory of achieving top awards. DOE and other sponsors were motivated in training and recruiting talent entering into electrified-vehicle careers. However, my motivation was to understand how to evaluate these new vehicles because entirely new vehicle test procedures needed to be developed. Using that test experience, we took the best ideas seen at other labs to develop our own vehicle dynamometer laboratory. It was tailored specifically for research in advanced powertrains. I would continue evaluating new technologies at the lab for the next 20+ years by developing new test concepts and novel instrumentation methods. It was in 2006 when experience in testing electrified vehicles became distinctly relevant. The SAE standards document for testing emissions and energy consumption of HEV/PHEVs (SAE J1711) was due for a revision. It was widely understood that the test procedures were never well developed for PHEVs. The SAE standards committee asked me to lead the task force. My colleagues and I in the task force had to invent whole new testing and UPDATE Duoba in the Advanced Mobility Technology Laboratory (AMTL) hooking up instrumentation before a vehicle test. evaluation concepts for PHEVs - a radically different powertrain type that can span over a large spectrum of design choices. Nobody knew what a " typical PHEV design " looked like so we had to accommodate any conceivable design. At Argonne, we leveraged past competition test data and built our own inhouse prototypes to validate new testing ideas. The race for a new procedure came to a head when GM announced the first mass produced plug-in vehicle (the Chevy Volt PHEV). It is worth noting the Volt's battery's chemistry is based in part on a revolutionary breakthrough pioneered by August 2021 19