HYRBUS - Hybrid fuel cell powertrain retrofit for buses

Tees山谷和整个英国的巴士车队需要减少碳足迹和排放。新的氢燃料电池驱动的公交车提供了一个解决方案，然而，处理现有的车队对该行业来说是一个巨大的挑战。英国巴士和商用车车队运营商需要一个负担得起的、生态的、快速交付的解决方案，将现有的化石柴油车队转变为零排放。利用Ricardo在清洁高效推进系统(包括燃料电池/电池系统动力系统)方面的深厚技术知识和能力，以及Stagecoach在巴士运营方面的专业知识，HYRBUS(巴士氢燃料电池改装套件)项目正在开发一个带有氢燃料电池动力总成解决方案的巴士演示程序，可以改装到现有的柴油巴士上。演示程序将于2022年2月中旬至2022年3月底在Tees山谷地区的试验场和公共道路上行驶。示范小径将于2022年4月1日至5月中旬在蒂斯山谷继续进行，并在公共道路上行驶。巴士将定期使用Tees Valley地区的氢气加气站。在竞赛范围内最初3个月的示范活动取得成功后，示范试验预计将继续进行，并扩大车队，最长可持续6-9个月，以证明改装解决方案的性能、可靠性、可维护性和效率。在此之后，其意图是将氢燃料电池改造解决方案作为里卡多销售的商业转换服务提供。

Bus fleets in the Tees Valley and across the UK need to reduce their carbon footprint and emissions. New hydrogen fuel-cell powered buses offer a solution, however dealing with the existing fleet of vehicles is a significant challenge for the industry. The UK bus and commercial vehicle fleet operators need an affordable, ecological, quickly deliverable solution to transition the existing fossil Diesel powered fleet to zero-emissions.Using Ricardo's deep technical knowledge and capabilities for clean efficient propulsion systems (including fuel-cell/battery system powertrain) and Stagecoach's expertise in bus operations, the project HYRBUS (HYdrogen fuel-cell Retrofit kit for BUS) is developing a bus demonstrator with a hydrogen fuel-cell powertrain solution that can be retrofitted to existing Diesel buses.The demonstrator will be driven in the Tees Valley area on test grounds and public roads from Mid February 2022 to end March 2022\. Demonstration trails will continue from 1st April to mid May 2022 in Tees Valley with driving on public roads. The bus will use regularly the hydrogen refuelling station in Tees Valley area.Subject to success for initial 3 months of demonstration activities under the competition scope, the demonstration trials would be expected to continue, with an expanded fleet, for up to 6-9 months to prove performance, reliability, maintainability and efficiency of the retrofit solution. After this, the intention is to make the hydrogen fuel cell retrofit solution available as a commercial conversion service sold by Ricardo.