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. 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.


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    Title :

    Model Validation and Demonstration of a Hydrogen Fuel Cell Parcel Delivery Truck


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    Publication date :

    2020-06-01


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    311496 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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