Fuel cell and battery powered light electric vehicle simulation

Sahin H., Çetin M. S., Gençoğlu M. T., ERDİNÇ O.

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2025 (SCI-Expanded) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Basım Tarihi: 2025
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2024.12.499
  • Dergi Adı: International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, PASCAL, Artic & Antarctic Regions, Chemical Abstracts Core, Chimica, Communication Abstracts, Compendex, Environment Index, INSPEC
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Battery, Fuel cell, Hydrogen, Light electric vehicles, Motor driver
  • Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Electrification in transportation is becoming more widespread day by day due to both environmental and economic concerns. For this purpose, vehicles suitable for many different purposes are designed and put on the market. Although battery electric vehicles are the first solution that comes to mind, their limited energy storage capacity and high charging times pose a major disadvantage. In order to overcome these disadvantages, technologies that use fuel cells as the primary energy source and batteries are used as secondary are also being developed. In this study, a hybrid power source consisting of fuel cell and battery is designed and the control of a brushless direct current motor that is assumed to drive a light electric vehicle is simulated in Matlab/Simulink. The fuel consumption of the simulated vehicle is found to be 1.03 gH2/km or 0.39 Lge/100 km as gasoline equivalent fuel consumption. The motor is successfully controlled to follow the reference speed and torque, and the motor efficiency is 76.2% including the motor driver. The overall efficiency of the simulated vehicle is calculated as 41.4%.