Hydrogen electric motor vehicles: Testing and control trends

Abstract

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles (FCVs) are similar to EVs, in the aspect that they use an electric motor instead of an internal combustion engine to power the wheels. The main difference is that EVs run on batteries that must be plugged in to recharge, while FCVs generate their electricity onboard. This manuscript presents overview of the hydrogen vehicle certification legislation. Inspection and testing of motor vehicle technology today represent a set of a whole series of procedures that are applied in different stages of the vehicle development, production and operation of vehicles, and whose task is to provide objective information about the quality of the vehicle and its assemblies and parts, as well as about the conditions in which the vehicles operate, about workloads, environment, etc. Although there are adopted technical regulative for hydrogen powered EVs, the appropriate standards and legislation are still evolving.