California fuel cell bus engine order for Ballard

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 58 KB
• Volume: 2002
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1464-2859
• DOI: 10.1016/s1464-2859(02)10018-6

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uncertainty was the acceleration of the purely fuel cell vehicle, since it has no traction battery. Nevertheless, in its present configuration the locomotive accelerates in a comparable manner to the battery version, 'which is probably as well as wheel adhesion will allow,' according to Vehicle Projects' Dr Arnold Miller.

The continuous net power is nearly twice that of the battery version, which should allow it to pull more cars than the battery locomotive. The vehicle will next be submitted to a rigorous test protocol in underground production at Placer Dome's Campbell gold mine in northwestern Ontario.

The fuel cell powered locomotive pulled its first fully loaded 4 tonne cars on the surface track site at the CANMET Experimental Mine in Val-d'Or. The locomotive was able to pull three fully loaded 4 tonne cars quite easily, and accelerate almost as fast as a battery powered locomotive. The new fuel cell stacks, from Nuvera Fuel Cells, are able to handle the high transitory energy needs without any problem.