Well-to-Wheels Analysis of Advanced SUV Fuel Cell Vehicles
Date Published: 2003-03-03
Paper Number:2003-01-0415
DOI: 10.4271/2003-01-0415
Citation:
Rousseau, A., Ahluwahlia, R., Deville, B., and Zhang, Q., "Well-to-Wheels Analysis of Advanced SUV Fuel Cell Vehicles," SAE Technical Paper 2003-01-0415, 2003, doi:10.4271/2003-01-0415.
Fuel cell vehicles are currently undergoing extensive research and development because of their potential for high efficiency and low emissions. A complete well-to-wheels evaluation is helpful when considering the introduction of advanced vehicles that could use a new fuel, such as hydrogen. Several modeling tools developed by Argonne National Laboratory were used to evaluate the impact of several new vehicle configurations. A transient vehicle simulation software code, PSAT (Powertrain System Analysis Toolkit), was used with a transient fuel cell model derived from GCTool (General Computational Toolkit); and GREET (Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions and Energy use in Transportation) was employed in estimating well-to-tank performances. This paper compares the well-to-wheels impacts of several advanced SUVs, including conventional, parallel and series hybrid-electric and fuel cell vehicles.
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