Technology Status of Hydrogen Road Vehicles

Europe--Fuel Cells
Table 2. Hydrogen Vehicles for Demonstration (late 1990s)
(continued)
8. Unspecified Mercedes Benz buses with FC, adopted following cancellation of item 2 in Table 1.
9. One Renault Laguna passenger car, 8 kg LH 2, 30-kW PEM FC, 500-km range.
10. Air Liquide, Ansaldo, DeNora, Renault will test this vehicle in 1997 5 . Wurster et al. (1996) give further
data on the bus: 100 passengers, low floor, 150-300 km/d, 2.2 m 3 GH 2 at 25 MPa in 12 composite rooftop
vessels, 60-90 PEM FC in hybrid combination with magneto-dynamic flywheel, two wheel-mounted drive
motors. Demonstration in Erlangen (see also Item 3 Table 1) from early 1999 with 50% co-financing
requested from federal and state governments. (See Appendix 4 for more details.)
11. One MAN city bus, 12 m, 100 passengers, low floor, 150-300 km/d, 2.2 m 3 GH 2 at 25 MPa in 12
composite rooftop vessels, 120-180 kW PEM FC, single central drive motor. Demonstration as for Item
10 above. (See Wurster et al. [1996] and Appendix 4 for more details.)
12. One Peugeot minivan, 30-kW PEM FC, 500-km range. Ansaldo, CEA, DeNora, Peugeot will test this
vehicle by 1998.
Europe--Internal Combustion Engines
13. One low-floor Van Hool midibus, original gasoline engine modified by VCST-Hydrogen Systems to 108
kW with supercharger, 350 liter LH 2 tank on roof, 70-passenger, 200 km range. De Lijn will operate this
bus in Ghent, Belgium in 1996; refueling from a 6000 liter LH 2 tank in bus depot. 6
Japan--Fuel Cells/Internal Combustion Engines
None announced.
5 Testing was completed as scheduled.
6 Testing was completed as scheduled.
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