Governor Matt Bevin says the University of Louisville is a key component of a national center that will research what he called "automotive efficiency and sustainable transportation." That could include everything from online transportation services to self-driving vehicles. He made the announcement Monday speaking before the second Auto Vision Conference meeting in Lexington. He says the U of L focus could result in some new automotive technologies.
“Some things that are being imagined now will come to fruition,” Bevin said. “Other things will come to fruition that nobody’s even thought of yet. Other ideas that we’ve thought of frankly are gonna hit dead ends. It’s the nature of automotives. It’s the nature engineering. It’s the nature of manufacturing.”
Bevin says U of L is joining five other universities across the country in launching this program funded by the National Science Foundation. The program is called the Industrial University Cooperative Research Center for Efficient Vehicles and Sustainable Transportation Systems.
