Department of Energy (DOE) Meeting Minutes from the Interagency Committee on Alternative Fuels and Low Emission Vehicles Working Group (INTERFUEL), 2017-2019

This collection of meeting minutes, agendas, and handouts from the Interagency Committee on Alternative Fuels and Low Emission Vehicles (INTERFUEL) captures policy-level thinking about vehicle fuel standards and alternative energy adoption across the federal government during 2017-2019. The document brings together the Federal Energy Management Program, likely representatives from Transportation, Defense, Interior, and other agencies, discussing what incentives and standards the government should adopt for its own fleet. The working group met regularly and produced both notes and formal decisions. What makes this archival material is not that it contains secrets (redactions are sparse enough to suggest routine exemptions) but that it is the mundane infrastructure of policy: who said what, who committed to what, how disagreements were resolved. Government records like this rarely survive in accessible form. Ten years from now, someone researching what the government was thinking about electric vehicles and fuel cell standards in 2018 would need this document. It is the kind of material archives collect precisely because nobody else will.