Applicability of Fuel Cell in Electric Vehicles

Abstract

This paper presents the model of a full electric vehicle which uses as main power source a fuel cell. The purpose of this study is to analyze the behaviour of the fuel cell using Advisor toolbox from Matlab and how it is possible to obtain a cleaner power generation. The Advisor toolbox was developed at the beginning for studying hybrid electric vehicles, but in time became a useful tool also for simulation and test pure electric vehicles. For simulation with this software, in the first step it was considered a type of a vehicle and then there were applied more fuel cell types in order to compare and evaluate the performances in different operating modes. Also, the present study takes in consideration mathematically and physically models for reliable results.