Plug-in fuel cell electric vehicle: Control strategy analysis and comparison with battery electric vehicle

Paper in proceeding, 2024

In this work, a plug-in fuel cell electric hybrid vehicle is modeled based on the fuel cell data of a commercial fuel cell vehicle combined with real data of a test hybrid battery engine vehicle. Two rule-based energy management strategies are implemented in the vehicle: fuel cell constant power (Control 1) or as a function of the battery state of charge (Control 2). Further, a comparison to a battery electric vehicle in terms of average energy consumption is evaluated. Control 2 has shown to be more energy efficient reaching an overall car efficiency at least 3% higher due to the fuel cell operation at higher efficiencies. Further, the average energy consumption per km for the hybrid vehicle has shown to be up to 10% lower than the battery electric vehicles.