Electrification of Road Freight Transport – Energy Consumption Analysis of Overhead Line Hybrid Trucks

Climate change requires a fundamental approach regarding diversified concepts and technologies for future generations. A sector, which is at the beginning of a major transformation, is the road freight transport sector. A promising approach to counteract climate change is the so-called “eHighway”, which is currently being tested in various field trials. In this context, trucks are equipped with a pantograph, allowing an electric power supply during their operation. Funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and led by the respective road authority Hessen Mobil, Technische Universität Darmstadt is responsible for the accompanying scientific research of the related German research project “ELISA”.Considering the experiences gained in a real world test operation, this research study provides a detailed description of different operating modes for “Overhead Line Hybrid (OH) trucks”. Moreover, the main goal of this study is to give insights into the related energy consumption information of the different electric and hybrid operating modes. For this purpose, the truck’s behaviour under monitored conditions and the operation in its designated future operational environment are considered. As a major result, 6+1 operating modes can be identified. Under certain circumstances, some operating modes allow a zero fuel consumption of an OH truck, even though the total fuel consumption mainly depends on the share an eHighway has related to the total distance travelled in a considered general context.

• Record URL:
  https://annualmeeting.mytrb.org/OnlineProgram/Details/15778
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AMS30 Standing Committee on Transportation Energy.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Schöpp, Ferdinand
  • 0000-0002-1429-3735
  • Öztürk, Özgür
  • 0000-0002-0916-0161
  • Linke, Regina
  • 0000-0002-3127-7745
  • Wilke, Jürgen K
  • Boltze, Manfred
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 100th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2021-1-5 to 2021-1-29
• Date: 2021

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 18p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Electric power transmission; Electric trucks; Energy consumption; Hybrid vehicles; Pantographs
• Geographic Terms: Germany
• Subject Areas: Energy; Freight Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01763883
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: TRBAM-21-00961
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 4 2021 10:57AM