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US 2023/0069428 A1Published application
Fuel cell vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshiaki NAGANUMA
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Abstract
A fuel cell vehicle may include: a fuel cell unit; a battery unit connected to an output terminal of the fuel cell unit in parallel; a traction motor configured to be driven by electric power supplied from at least one of the fuel cell unit and the battery unit; and a controller configured to control the fuel cell unit to maintain a FC voltage outputted from the fuel cell unit at an idling voltage which is higher than zero and lower than a battery voltage outputted from the battery unit while driving of the traction motor is prohibited.
Claims8
A fuel cell vehicle comprising:
- a fuel cell unit;
- a battery unit connected to an output terminal of the fuel cell unit in parallel;
- a traction motor configured to be driven by electric power supplied from at least one of the fuel cell unit and the battery unit;
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- a controller configured to control the fuel cell unit to maintain a FC voltage outputted from the fuel cell unit at an idling voltage which is higher than zero and lower than a battery voltage outputted from the battery unit while driving of the traction motor is prohibited.
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