Performance Evaluation of a Samand Vehicle with Internal Combustion Engine System and Hybrid Electric-Fuel Cell System

In this research، the conventional internal combustion engine system in a samand vehicle is replaced by a hybrid electric-fuel cell system. The samand vehicle is then modeled in the ADVISOR software، considering both systems. For modeling، the body structure and wheels models as well as their corresponding parameters are added to the software. For both cases، simulation results such as the fuel consumption and the system efficiency in various driving cycles are studied and compared together. Results show that in the hybrid electric-fuel cell vehicle beside the reduction of the fuel consumption، the efficiency increases with zero exhaust emission pollutant gases. Also، the vehicle could challenge with the internal combustion vehicle in issues such as performance parameters، the velocity، the acceleration and the gradeability.