Mr. Bryan D Jungers
UC Davis
Bryan was born and raised in the small desert town of Boron, CA. He later attended Humboldt State University and received a B.S. degree in Environmental Resources Engineering in 2004. Bryan is currently working to complete his graduate studies at UC Davis, where he has been specializing in plug-in hybrid vehicle design and development.
As a student leader of the Challenge X team and a researcher in the Hybrid Electric Vehicle Center (HEVC), Bryan worked on the design, construction and analysis of a latest-generation plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) named Trinity. Bryan was the lead or co-author on several technical papers documenting the development of Trinity from 2004 to 2006.
Bryan worked part-time at the California Energy Commissions as a Graduate Student Intern in the Fall of 2006. Along with researchers and policy makers in the CEC's PIER program, he helped to craft a contract and statement of work for the new Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Center (PHEVC) at ITS-Davis, which was approved by the CEC commissioners in December, 2006.
Bryan is currently collaborating with student researchers from MIT and 35 other universities around the world to design a vehicle with a 95% reduction in energy and materials input; fuel economy improvements of over 200 mpg (energy cost equivalent); and all without compromising the regionally-specific utility and performance of a 4-passenger personal vehicle.
