Dr. James Eberhardt
Chief Scientist,
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy,
Dr. James Eberhardt is Chief
Scientist for the Office of “FreedomCAR” and Vehicle
Technologies” in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency
and Renewable Energy, United States Department of Energy. During his career, spanning 28+ years of
federal service, Dr. Eberhardt has provided
leadership for three multi-million dollar research and development programs of
national significance. These include his
most recent past position as Director, Office of Heavy Vehicle Technologies and
his two previous positions as Director,
Office of Transportation Materials and Director, Energy Conversion and Utilization Technologies Division. Since 1997 Dr. Eberhardt
perhaps has been best known for his advocacy
and research program to develop
technologies for “cleaning up the diesel engine”. Margo Oge, Director
of the Office of Mobile Sources for the Environmental Protection Agency has
dubbed Dr. Eberhardt, “the father of the light truck
clean diesel”. Dr. Eberhardt
earned his B.S. degree in Chemistry and
Mathematics from