Project ICEBreaker, delivered by a consortium of leading British engineering companies, has unveiled a fully-configured hydrogen fuel cell HGV truck. It answers many of the key design and development questions faced by the automotive industry as it prepares the next generation of light and heavy-duty commercial vehicles to meet new zero-emissions regulations from the EU that start to take effect in 2030.
The project has brought together the hydrogen engineering expertise of Viritech, HORIBA MIRA and Intelligent Energy, with funding from the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) through the Advanced Propulsion Centre UK’s Advanced Route to Market Demonstrator competition. Jointly they have developed a drivetrain solution that answers the key hydrogen engineering challenges in the creation of a fuel cell electric vehicle truck with the fuel cells as the prime mover, supported by a small 16 kWh battery with 400kW charge/discharge capacity and fuel-cell optimised DC-DC converters. A pair of Intelligent Energy DRIVE HD100 fuel cells operating in parallel deliver 200kW of primary motive power.
Importantly, ICEBreaker’s drivetrain architecture provides a pathway for all categories of goods vehicles from light vans to HGVs to make the transition to zero emissions with solutions that retrofit or integrate with existing vehicle form factors, while also answering key operator requirements such as maintaining payload.
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