Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Characterisation under Laboratory and In‐use Operation☆

Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (FCEVs) are one of the main options considered as possible future alternatives to conventional vehicles. The paper evaluates a light-duty FCEV under both laboratory and on-road conditions. Hydrogen consumption and vehicle efficiency were measured over various driving and...

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Published in:Energy Reports
Main Authors: Giuseppe Di Pierro, Evangelos Bitsanis, Alessandro Tansini, Christian Bonato, Giorgio Martini, Georgios Fontaras
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-06-01
Subjects:
Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle efficiency
Hydrogen consumption
Consumption factors
WLTP
In-use operation
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352484723016050
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Summary:Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (FCEVs) are one of the main options considered as possible future alternatives to conventional vehicles. The paper evaluates a light-duty FCEV under both laboratory and on-road conditions. Hydrogen consumption and vehicle efficiency were measured over various driving and temperature conditions. Results show hydrogen consumption between 0.975 kg/100 km and 1.5 kg/100 km, close to the officially declared value. A new extended formulation of vehicle efficiency is proposed to consider different energy streams in the vehicle. Vehicle indicative efficiency remained between 50% and 60% on the majority of cases. The paper also investigates the feasibility of applying a fuel cell system of similar characteristics for commercial urban and rural applications, the Vehicle Energy Consumption Calculation TOol (VECTO), as a possible alternative solution to a battery electric equivalent vehicle.
ISSN:2352-4847

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