Abstract
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 CO2 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 pound 01/km a well to wheel CO2 of 9 37 g CO2/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 (C) 2010 Professor T Nejat Veziroglu Published by Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 12709-12715 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | International Journal of Hydrogen Energy |
Volume | 35 |
Issue number | 23 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2010 |
Keywords
- Battery electric vehicle (BEV)
- Electric vehicle (EV)
- Hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (HFCHV)
- Plug in hybrid ev (PHEV)