Trials, analysis and deployment planning for hydrogen fleets

该项目采用三种方法在Tees山谷部署氢气运输：展示氢燃料电池电动商用车，开发自动化车队分析工具，以及为零排放重型汽车制定具体的车队部署计划。项目合作伙伴Arcola Energy和Cenex结合了氢气技术、车辆工程和车队分析经验。Arcola Energy为重型FCEV的供应提供了一条可行的途径，Cenex的目标是通过支持车队管理者来加速采用这项技术。该项目将展示氢零排放轻型商用车在地方当局车队中的运行。这些面包车将在议会车队中操作，配备远程记录设备，并与车队中现有的车辆和纯电池电动汽车进行比较。演示的重点是氢气与经过验证的技术的实践经验以及员工对操作和加油的舒适性，从经验中获取反馈并与BEV进行比较。Cenex将开发一种专门包括氢气FCEV功能的车队分析工具，以帮助车队客户识别氢气汽车的适当使用案例。基于桌面的车队分析将被用作为该地区未来车辆部署和枢纽的雄心壮志制定具体车队部署情景规划的基础。具体而言，该项目将探索Arcola Energy将于2022年推向市场的零排放氢气FCEV垃圾收集车(RCVS)的部署潜力，以及其他重型车辆类别的潜力。这是地方当局减少其船队对空气质量的影响并支持长期脱碳的关键目标工具。

The project takes a three-fold approach to the deployment of hydrogen transport in the Tees Valley: a demonstration of hydrogen fuel cell electric commercial vehicles, a development of an automated fleet analysis tool, and production of specific fleet deployment plans for zero-emission heavy vehicles.Project partners Arcola Energy and Cenex bring a combination of hydrogen technology, vehicle engineering and fleet analysis experience. Arcola Energy brings a viable route to supply of heavy-duty FCEVs and Cenex aims to accelerate the adoption of this technology through support to fleet managers.The project will demonstrate hydrogen zero-emission light commercial vehicles operating in local authority fleets. The vans will be operated in Council fleets, instrumented with remote logging devices and compared against current vehicles and pure battery electric vehicles already in fleets. The focus of the demonstration is the practical experience of hydrogen with proven technology and the comfort of staff with operation and refuelling, capturing feedback from the experience and comparison with BEVs.Cenex will develop a fleet analysis tool specifically including the capabilities of hydrogen FCEVs that will help fleet customers identify appropriate use cases for hydrogen vehicles. The desk-based fleet analysis will be used as a basis for specific fleet deployment scenario planning for future deployments of vehicles in the region and the ambitions of the Hub.Specifically the project will explore the potential for deployment of zero-emission hydrogen FCEV refuse collection vehicles (RCVs), a product which Arcola Energy is bringing to market in 2022, as well as the potential for other heavy vehicle classes. This is a key target vehicle for local authorities to reduce air quality impact of their fleets and support long term decarbonisation.