The Controlled Hydrogen Fleet and Infrastructure Demonstration and Validation Project, also known as the Fuel Cell Vehicle and Infrastructure Learning Demonstration, is a five-year U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) project started in 2004. The purpose of this project is to conduct an integrated field validation that simultaneously examines the performance of fuel cell vehicles and the supporting hydrogen infrastructure. The DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has now analyzed data from almost three years of the five-year project. During this time, 92 vehicles have been deployed, 14 project refueling stations were placed in use, and no fundamental safety issues have been identified. We'e analyzed data from over 200,000 individual vehicle trips covering 1,100,000 miles traveled and over 40,000 kg hydrogen produced or dispensed. Public analytical results for this project are in the form of composite data products, which aggregate individual performance into a range that protects the intellectual property and the identity of each company, while still publishing overall status and progress. One of the key metrics from the project is fuel cell durability. We analyze all of the field data from the fuel cell vehicles, and make degradation projections based on a theoretical 10% drop in voltage at high current.


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    Title :

    Fuel Cell Vehicle Learning Demonstration: Spring 2008 Results; Preprint


    Contributors:
    K. Wipke (author) / S. Sprik (author) / J. Kurtz (author) / J. Garbak (author)

    Publication date :

    2008


    Size :

    22 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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