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Report

Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - REVIVE (Refuse Vehicle Innovation and Validation in Europe)

Teaser

Summary

For urban trucks, there is an increasing need for zero emission solutions to comply with upcoming access restrictions imposed by cities as part of pollution reduction strategies. REVIVE will significantly advance the state of development of fuel cell refuse trucks, by integrating fuel cell powertrains into 15 vehicles and deploying them in 8 sites across Europe. The project will deliver substantial technical progress by integrating fuel cell systems from three major suppliers and developing effective hardware and control strategies to meet highly demanding refuse truck duty cycles. Specific work on standardisation will ensure that the lessons learned are applicable to the full range of OEMs supplying vehicles into the European market, helping to accelerate the introduction of next generation products. In parallel, the demonstration activities will greatly raise awareness of the viability of fuel cells as a solution to demanding heavy duty vehicle uses (and raise public awareness of hydrogen mobility more generally due to the visibility of the trucks). A successful demonstration of fuel cell trucks will have substantial impacts beyond the technical progress delivered by the project itself, as it will enable public authorities to continue implementing bold decarbonisation strategies by providing clear evidence that viable zero emissions solutions will exist for all vehicle types in the medium term. The project will also support the wider rollout of hydrogen mobility by introducing a further source of hydrogen demand that can improve the economics of existing and future refuelling station deployments, in turn facilitating the rollout of other vehicle types.

Work performed

Currently no hydrogen refuse trucks are in operations yet. Today 3 sites have ordered their H2 refuse trucks (for Groningen, Amsterdam and Suez in Helmond). The DAF chassis and garbage presses for these vehicles are being produced and assembled and foreseen to be delivered at E-Trucks in Lommel in 2019. A fourth site (Breda) already operates an electric vehicle which will be the first truck equipped with a fuel cell system in the Revive project. This truck is expected to be the first H2 refuse truck to be deployed in the REVIVE project in September 2019. The other trucks (Groningen, Amsterdam and Suez) are expected for Q1 2020.

Currently, 3 partners have not signed the final Supply Agreement for the refuse trucks. Below the main raisons for these delays are presented per site:

-Antwerp: In Antwerp the final permit for a refueling station is not obtained. It will only be clear at the end of June 2019 which option is feasible and if the permits can be obtained. In the meantime, the DAF chassis are already ordered to reduce the delivery time of the H2 refuse trucks
-Bolzano/Merano: The municipalities of Merano and Bolzano have selected E-Trucks as a preferred supplier through an European wide RFI. As the region of Merano and Bolzano has specific working conditions(uphill streets, cold winters and small streets), E-Trucks foresees to put a demonstration truck in operation in both locations in Q2 2019. The aim of this demonstration is to convince the Merano/Bolzano municipalities about the readiness of the technology and to register user-data to define the technical requirements for the refuse trucks. Originally two trucks were foreseen (one in Bolzano and one in Merano). With current co-financing however, they will reduce their engagement towards 1 vehicle which will operate in both cities during the REVIVE project.
-Saver: Roosendaal could not secure an investment in a HRS before the end of 2020. Therefore the consortium was informed that no trucks will be purchased by Saver within the REVIVE project and it is confirmed that they will be leaving the consortium.
-A forth site still had to be defined by the Consortium at the start of the project.This site would represent two trucks as well. Swiss Hydrogen wanted to introduce a Swiss partner in the consortium but at the end of the first working year, it was reported that no final solution was found.

The Consortium will make a proposal to the FCH JU about the 5 trucks which currently are not alocated to an end-user.

For the data collection and analysis work pacakge, the data collection framework was written and currently is in the process of review by all partners. In Q2 2019, CEA together with E-trucks will try to test the data collection with the truck in Breda.

For the dissemination work package, the project website was built and launched in Autumn in 2018. This website summarises the scope of the project and its partners, and will be regularly updated as trucks are deployed during the project and as results from the demonstrations and the associated research studies become available.

Final results

At the start of the project, E-Trucks Europe launched a market search to identify the best Fuel Cell supplier for the refuse trucks in the Revive project. The aim was to identify the overall state of the art of the European Fuel Cell market (both technically and commercially) and to look for good alternatives for the FC suppliers that E-Trucks Europe worked with before, most of them being non-European. The search was done by defining a â€˜Technical Requirements and Specificationsâ€™ document that defines the technical requirements, the commercial constrains under which FC suppliers can offer for truck manufacturers and the way they organise their atersales organisation.

Currently E-trucks has selected 3 suppliers to supply their FC system to E-trucks to be integrated in the ordered trucks.However, the FC suppliers Symbio and Swiss Hydrogen are not scheduled to be integrated in the refuse trucks which are ordered by the cities so far. After negotiations between TRACTEBEL, E-trucks, Symbio and Swiss Hydrogen to find a solution, Symbio decided to withdrawl from the REVIVE project. A solution to help advance the TRL level of the Swiss Hydrogen technology will be presented to the FCH JU shortly.

Vehicle registrations and certification documents allowing the vehicles to operate in the relevant member states are being processed and first registrations will be finilized end of Q1 2019.