Connecticut Transit (CTTRANSIT) Fuel Cell Transit Bus: Third Evaluation Report

Details

• Creators:
  Chandler, Kevin ; Eudy, Leslie
• Corporate Creators:
  National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.) ; Battelle
• Corporate Contributors:
  Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC ; United States. Dept. of Energy. Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Fuel cell vehicles
  • Bus transit operations
  • Evaluation
  • Electric buses
  • prototype fuel cell bus
  • standard diesel buses
  • cold
  • snow
• Publication/ Report Number:
  NREL/TP-560-47334-1
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Connecticut
• Corporate Publisher:
  National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.)
• Description:
  This report describes operations at Connecticut Transit (CTTRANSIT) in Hartford for one prototype fuel cell bus and three newer diesel buses operating from the same location. The prototype fuel cell bus was manufactured by Van Hool and ISE Corp. and features an electric hybrid drive system with a UTC Power PureMotion1 This fuel cell bus is considered prototype technology in the process of being commercialized. The analysis and comparison discussions regarding standard diesel buses help baseline the progress of the fuel cell bus technology. There is no intent to consider this implementation of fuel cell buses as commercial (or full-revenue transit service). This evaluation focuses on documenting progress and opportunities for improving the vehicles, infrastructure, and procedures. 120 Fuel Cell Power System and ZEBRA batteries for energy storage. The fuel cell bus started operation in April 2007, and evaluation results through October 2009 are provided in this report.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DE-AC36-08-GO28308
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/37116/dot_37116_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 929.67 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:a0f5a093b17949e0be446889b61d304e871f73f15c6e50ffc0d75ce95f17ca46