Battery selection and testing for a fuel cell/battery hybrid electric vehicle
conference paper
The project "Brass-board integration of a reformer/fuel cell/battery/electric motor system for electric traction" contributes to the development of a new and environmentally friendly power source for electrically driven cars. This research is carried out by Loughborough university of rechnology (united Kingdom), TECNARS s.r.l. (Iraly), ECN, HOLEC and TNO (The Netherlands), " The project concerns the deveiopment of an integrated system (brass-board) for a hybrid delivery van for urban use. A SPFC fuel cell stack is used to supply the average power the "model van" needs for its drive pattern. A battery system is needed for acceleration and high speed. The selection and testing of the batteries is performed by TNO. From the specifications of the model van on acceleration, range and speed it becomes clear that the batteries should exhibit both a high specific power and a high specific energy. In order to select the most suited battery for the brass-board system specific technical information on the possible battery types have been gathered. The performance goals of the battery have been set and the availability, delivery time and cost have been considered. Using this set of information a NilCd battery was selected. The selection criteria show that not only the technical aspects are important but also the availability on a full scale and the cost. Next to the selection criteria used also preliminary results of the battery tests will be presented in the paper.
TNO Identifier
289701
Source title
27th internatiinal symposium on advanced transportation apllications, 31st October - 4th November 1994, Aachen, Germany
Place of publication
Delft
Pages
1-10
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