Optimal Energy Management and sizing of the power sources for the solar powered hydrogen vehicle

This works aims to study the modelling and the feasibility of a new type of hybridization between fuel cells, photovoltaic panels and Li-ion batteries. The paper is mainly focused on the dimensioning of the fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle and development of an energy management strategies using Matlab/Simulink platform. The main objective was to study the integration of photovoltaic panels in the fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle and to propose an optimal sizing for the available power sources. The obtained results have been compared with that of Toyota Mirai. It has been observed that the proposed model is efficient in terms of hydrogen consumption (0.58kg/100 km) as compared to that of Toyota Mirai (0.76kg/100 km).