ORNL/TM-2000/283 THE COST OF AUTOMOTIVE POLYMER COMPOSITES: A REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT OF DOE'S LIGHTWEIGHT MATERIALS COMPOSITES RESEARCH Sujit Das Energy Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Prepared for the Office of Advanced Automotive Technology Office of Transportation Technologies U. S. Department of Energy January 2001 OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831 managed and operated by UT-Battelle, LLC for the U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY under contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725