Hydrogen fuel cell hybrid scooter (HFCHS) with plug-in features on Birmingham campus
✍ Scribed by Jin Lei Shang; Bruno G. Pollet
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 873 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-3199
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✦ Synopsis
Hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (HFCHV)
Plug-in hybrid ev (PHEV) Battery electric vehicle (BEV) a b s t r a c t A commercially available 'pure' lead-acid battery electric scooter (GoPed) was converted to a hydrogen fuel cell battery hybrid scooter (HFCHS) in views of investigating the effect of hybridisation on driving duty cycles, range, performance, recharging times, well-to-wheel CO 2 footprint and overall running costs. The HFCHS with plug-in features consisted mainly of a 500 W hydrogen PEM Fuel Cell stack connected to four 12 V 9 Ah lead-acid batteries and two hydrogen metal-hydride canisters supplying pure hydrogen (99.999%) and also acting as heat sink (due to endothermic hydrogen desorption process). In this study, the HFCHS urban driving cycle was compared with that of a conventional petrol and 'pure' battery electric scooter. The energy consumed by the HFCHS was 0.11 kWh/km, with an associated running cost of £0.01/km, a well-to-wheel CO 2 of 9.37 g CO 2 /km and a maximum range of 15 miles. It was shown that the HFCHS gave better energy efficiencies and speeds compared to battery and petrol powered GoPed scooters alone.