HYRBUS - Hybrid fuel cell powertrain retrofit for buses

蒂斯山谷和英国各地的公交车队需要减少碳足迹和排放。新型氢燃料电池驱动的公共汽车提供了一个解决方案，但是如何处理现有的车队对该行业来说是一个重大挑战。英国公共汽车和商用车运营商需要一种经济实惠、环保、可快速交付的解决方案，将现有的化石柴油动力车队转变为零排放。利用里卡多在清洁高效推进系统（包括燃料电池/电池系统动力总成）方面的深厚技术知识和能力，以及Stagecoach在公共汽车运营方面的专业知识，HYRBUS（公共汽车氢燃料电池改装套件）项目正在开发一种公共汽车演示器，该演示器具有氢燃料电池动力总成解决方案，可以改装到现有的柴油公共汽车上。该示范车将于2022年2月中旬至2022年3月底在蒂斯山谷地区的试验场和公共道路上行驶。示范路线将于2022年4月1日至5月中旬在蒂斯山谷的公共道路上行驶。巴士将定期使用蒂斯谷地区的加氢站。在竞争范围内，若首3个月的示范活动取得成功，预计示范试验将继续进行6至9个月，以证明改装方案的性能、可靠性、可维护性和效率。在此之后，意图是使氢燃料电池改造解决方案可作为商业转换服务出售里卡多。

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.