Evaluating national hydrogen refueling infrastructure requirement and economic competitiveness of fuel cell electric long-haul trucks
Abstract
This study explored the national hydrogen refueling infrastructure requirement along major United States (US) interstate highway corridors to support the deployment of fuel cell electric trucks (FCETs) for the national long-haul trucking fleet. Given the long-haul trucking shipment demand in 2025 projected by the Freight Analysis Framework, locations and capacities of hydrogen stations were identified for inter-zone freight flows, and the total daily refueling demand was estimated for intra-zone flows for each FAF zone. Based on the infrastructure deployment results, we conducted an economic feasibility analysis of FCETs by evaluating the total ownership cost. We found that when the FCET penetration is relatively high (e.g., 10% penetration), FCETs become more competitive in terms of fuel cost and idling cost and could be economic viable if the incremental vehicle cost is reduced to meet the near-term FCET technology cost targets and the liquefaction cost is reduced to an optimal case. We also observed that the station cost depends on regional factors, particularly regional demand, which is used to determine station capacity. Thus, one possible strategy for station roll-out is to have early investment in target regions where station costs are expected to be relatively low such as the Pacific and Westmore »
- Authors:
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[2];
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- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1632062
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 25; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1381-2386
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS; fuel cell electric truck; long-haul heavy-duty truck; hydrogen refueling infrastructure; Freight Analysis Framework; ownership cost
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Liu, Nawei, Xie, Fei, Lin, Zhenhong, and Jin, Mingzhou. Evaluating national hydrogen refueling infrastructure requirement and economic competitiveness of fuel cell electric long-haul trucks. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1007/s11027-019-09896-z.
Liu, Nawei, Xie, Fei, Lin, Zhenhong, & Jin, Mingzhou. Evaluating national hydrogen refueling infrastructure requirement and economic competitiveness of fuel cell electric long-haul trucks. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-019-09896-z
Liu, Nawei, Xie, Fei, Lin, Zhenhong, and Jin, Mingzhou. Thu .
"Evaluating national hydrogen refueling infrastructure requirement and economic competitiveness of fuel cell electric long-haul trucks". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-019-09896-z. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1632062.
@article{osti_1632062,
title = {Evaluating national hydrogen refueling infrastructure requirement and economic competitiveness of fuel cell electric long-haul trucks},
author = {Liu, Nawei and Xie, Fei and Lin, Zhenhong and Jin, Mingzhou},
abstractNote = {This study explored the national hydrogen refueling infrastructure requirement along major United States (US) interstate highway corridors to support the deployment of fuel cell electric trucks (FCETs) for the national long-haul trucking fleet. Given the long-haul trucking shipment demand in 2025 projected by the Freight Analysis Framework, locations and capacities of hydrogen stations were identified for inter-zone freight flows, and the total daily refueling demand was estimated for intra-zone flows for each FAF zone. Based on the infrastructure deployment results, we conducted an economic feasibility analysis of FCETs by evaluating the total ownership cost. We found that when the FCET penetration is relatively high (e.g., 10% penetration), FCETs become more competitive in terms of fuel cost and idling cost and could be economic viable if the incremental vehicle cost is reduced to meet the near-term FCET technology cost targets and the liquefaction cost is reduced to an optimal case. We also observed that the station cost depends on regional factors, particularly regional demand, which is used to determine station capacity. Thus, one possible strategy for station roll-out is to have early investment in target regions where station costs are expected to be relatively low such as the Pacific and West South Central regions.},
doi = {10.1007/s11027-019-09896-z},
journal = {Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change},
number = 3,
volume = 25,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Nov 21 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Thu Nov 21 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}
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