NREL Evaluation of CT Transit Fuel Cell Bus in Hartford Connecticut, USA
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has recently published a second report on its evaluation of a fuel cell bus in service at CTTRANSIT in Hartford, Connecticut. This report provides an update to the previous report (October 2008) and includes results from January 2008 through February 2009.
This report is focused on performance results for CTTRANSIT’s prototype fuel cell bus since the installation of a new fuel cell power system. This version incorporates lessons learned from the early phase of the demonstration. Data are included from three new diesel buses operating from the same bus depot as a baseline comparison. During this 14-month data collection period, CTTRANSIT operated the fuel cell bus over 24,000 miles in service with an overall fuel economy of 4.7 miles per kg (13.14 kg/100km), which equates to 5.3 miles per diesel equivalent gallon. For comparison, CTTRANSIT’s diesel buses had an average fuel economy of 3.66 miles per gallon during that same timeframe.
To download the document, go to:
http://www.nrel.gov/hydrogen/pdfs/45670-1.pdf for the evaluation results
and
http://www.nrel.gov/hydrogen/pdfs/45670-2.pdf for the Appendices.
