 About a third of the energy used in the U.S. is for gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles. And we know these vehicles have a lot of negative impacts on the environment. We have greenhouse gas emissions, localized air pollution, spend a lot of money to import fuel from overseas. And I see electric vehicles as a tool to tackle many of these issues. You can buy an electric vehicle now, but electric vehicles are pretty expensive and they might not do everything that you want them to do. For example, their range on most of them are around 80 miles. So the goal of this research is to improve the technology so that electric vehicles are more functional, they can drive farther, and that they're more affordable so that more people like you can drive them. Our focus in this project was to build a vehicle from the ground up. This vehicle is one of a kind and to have it be a research vehicle. So everything in the vehicle was built with the idea that we could collect lots of data. When we take this vehicle out on the road, we're logging more than 300 parameters 25 times per second. And we're using this data to evaluate in real time the efficiency of the motor, the efficiency of the motor drive, as well as the efficiency and health of the battery. We can use this data then to compare to our models and help first to improve our model and second to improve the design of the vehicle. I think one unique thing about this vehicle is that it is, in any electric vehicle, it's a very complicated system. There's lots of pieces and when you actually build the whole car, it helps you to identify which parts of it need improvement, which parts are using a lot of the energy, and it helps you identify what the next good research project might be.