2005 Volume 3 Issue 2 Pages 807-810
This paper proposes the introduction of a small, light-weight and slow speed electric vehicle named Pipe EV with a single-passenger operating at minimum power. Driving power source in the trial electric vehicle using a fuel cell with a 24V, 300W is aided by hydrogen storage material filled-up to 1.5MPa instead of a battery. At present, running characteristics of Pipe EV using a DC motor as the drive system measures the current and voltage supplied to it, and investigates the mileage when that is run at a specific speed using a filled-up fuel cell. As a result, at a speed of 30 km/h, generating current and voltage of fuel cell are 7A and 16V, respectively. That is, generated output of fuel cell is 112W, and mileage is about 75mile (120km).
