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John German is a Senior Fellow and Program Director for the International Council for Clean Transportation, with primary responsibility for technology innovation and U.S. policy development. Mr. German has been involved with advanced technology and efficiency since joining Chrysler in 1976, where he spent 8 years in Powertrain Engineering working on fuel economy issues. Mr. German next spent 13 years doing research and writing regulations for EPA’s Office of Mobile Sources’ laboratory in Ann Arbor, MI. His rulemaking work included Tier 2 standards, revisions to the Federal Test Procedure, cold temperature CO standards, and on-board diagnostics. His research and analytical work included fuel economy technology assessments, fuel economy modeling, computer models of second-by-second emissions, and nonroad emission inventories. Prior to joining ICCT two years ago, he spent 11 years as Manager of Environmental and Energy Analyses for American Honda Motor Company. His responsibilities included anything connected with environmental and energy matters, with an emphasis on being a liaison between Honda’s R&D people in Japan and regulatory affairs. Mr. German is the author of a wide variety of technical papers, including the future of hybrid vehicles, consumer valuation of fuel savings, feebates, light truck trends, factors affecting vehicle emissions, emission modeling, and energy demand modeling. He has given numerous presentations on hybrid vehicles at conferences and university seminars, including participation in the SAE Industrial Lectureship Program from 2001 to 2003, and wrote the chapter on hybrid-electric vehicles for the Encyclopedia of Energy. Mr. German is also the first recipient of the Barry D. McNutt award, presented annually by SAE for Excellence in Automotive Policy Analysis, and is a member of the National Research Council’s Committee on Transitions to Alternative Vehicles and Fuels. Mr. German has a bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Michigan and got over half way through an MBA before he came to his senses.
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