Abstract
An electric motor driven fuel cell garbage truck was developed to reduce CO2 emissions of a conventional diesel garbage truck and to improve the surrounding environment. One-year field test was performed in Shunan City, Yamaguchi Prefecture for practical evaluation of the fuel cell garbage truck. Based on the one-year field test data, the effect of CO2 reduction at adaption of the fuel cell garbage truck instead of the conventional diesel garbage truck was analyzed. We also analyzed the energy consumption peculiar to the garbage truck and studied the traveling energy reduction measures suitable for its characteristics.
