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Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV) provide new prospects for energy-efficient driving due to their improved information accessibility, enhanced processing capacity, and precise control. The idea of the Eco-Driving (ED) control problem is to perform energy-efficient speed planning for a connected and automated vehicle using data obtained from high-resolution maps and Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication. With the recent goal of commercialization of autonomous vehicle technology, more research has been done to the investigation of autonomous eco-driving control. Previous research for autonomous eco-driving control has shown that energy efficiency improvements can be achieved by using optimization techniques. Most of these studies are conducted through simulations, but many more physical vehicle integrated test application studies are needed.

EcoCAR 2 is the premiere North American collegiate automotive competition that challenges 15 North American universities to redesign a 2013 Chevrolet Malibu to decrease the environmental impact of the Malibu while maintaining its performance, safety, and consumer appeal. The EcoCAR 2 project is a three year competition headline sponsored by General Motors and U.S. Department of Energy. In Year 1 of the competition, extensive modeling guided the Colorado State University (CSU) Vehicle Innovation Team (VIT) to choose an all-electric vehicle powertrain architecture with range extending hydrogen fuel cells, to be called the Malibu H2eV. During this year, the CSU VIT followed the EcoCAR 2 Vehicle Design Process (VDP) to develop the H2eV's electric and hydrogen powertrain, energy storage system (ESS), control systems, and auxiliary systems.