Q&A

“I'm a very big believer in alternative fuels,” SAE Fellow Andrea Strzelec, Ph.D., told former SAE Update editor Patrick Ponticel. “I see that in the push towards all things electric, this is a huge area of oversight from a research funding standpoint. Regardless of what the future fleet looks like - and I think that the projections on that are constantly changing, as just [recently] the UK government backed off their ICE bans - there is an existing legacy fleet that will continue to run on liquid fuels for decades to come.”

Strzelec, who recently was hired at USCAR (United States Council for Automotive Research) as senior research scientist, has been an SAE member since 2003 and currently serves as Chair of the Energy & Propulsion Activity (formerly Powertrain, Fuels & Lubricants Activity) for SAE. Following is a portion of the interview featured in the November issue of SAE's member publication Update (www.sae.org/update/).