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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology is one of 17 universities competing in Challenge X - Crossover to Sustainable Mobility, an international competition where teams are challenged to design, build, and test a hybrid vehicle architecture utilizing alternative fuels to reduce the energy consumption and emissions production of a 2005 Chevrolet Equinox while maintaining stock performance, utility and safety. During the first year of competition, our team has capitalized on numerous new technologies in both modeling software and physical components. PSAT was employed for preliminary architecture screening and component sizing while The Mathworks Simulink, SimDriveline, and Stateflow provided the environment for modeling our selected architecture and powertrain components. Our modeling progressed to real-time verification via multiple NI PXI chassis and a local CAN network.