Model Validation and Demonstration of a Hydrogen Fuel Cell Parcel Delivery Truck
- University of Texas at Austin, TX (United States); Center for Transportation and the Environment
- University of Texas at Austin, TX (United States)
- Center for Transportation and the Environment, Austin, TX (United States)
- Unique Electric Solutions, Smithtown, NY (United States)
With an emphasis on reducing fossil fuel consumption and emissions, major delivery service corporations have begun deploying and operating Class 6 battery electric delivery vans. Fuel cell hybrid delivery vans offer a zero emissions solution with extended range and route planning flexibility. This paper follows a prior publication [1] on the vehicle modeling and design and presents demonstration data and a validation of the prior modeling and design effort. Here, the validation exercise shows that the modeling tools predict performance and energy efficiency within 5% for most of the routes, while the demonstration data shows that in service operation fuel economy was over 14 km/kg of hydrogen gas. In addition, results from a range test showed the vehicle design and onboard hydrogen storage was able to surpass the design target range of 200 km.
- Research Organization:
- Center for Transportation and the Environment, Austin, TX (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Office of Sustainable Transportation. Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technologies Office (HFTO)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- EE0006523
- OSTI ID:
- 2405948
- Journal Information:
- IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo, Journal Name: IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo Vol. 2020; ISSN 2377-5483
- Publisher:
- IEEECopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Modeling and validation for zero emission buses
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conference | June 2017 |
Design and modeling for hydrogen fuel cell conversion of parcel delivery trucks
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conference | June 2017 |
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