Phileas 18 m Fuel Cell Vehicles
Jos Jansen
Advanced Public Transport Systems
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APTA
2011 - 5 October ‘11
VDL is a consortium of companies
VDL in the year 2010
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79 companies
Turnover $ 1,9 billion
16 countries
Export 70%
9 million sq ft production area
7,400 employees
20 companies belong to the VDL Bus & Coach group
• Production in 2010: 1,800 coaches & buses
• Turnover $ 600 million
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General presentation VDL Groep
Phileas has been developed as an affordable
alternative for tram systems (SIL 2 and SIL 4 level)
Available versions of the Phileas vehicle
• Length: 60’, 80’ and 85’
• Hybrid propulsion versions
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Parallel hybrid diesel (Allison)
Serial Hybrid fuel cell (Ballard / Vossloh Kiepe)
Serial Hybrid trolley (Vossloh Kiepe)
Primove Induction 80‘ (Bombardier)
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Why Phileas platform for the H2 buses
of Amsterdam and Cologne?
 Innovative and futuristic design
 Light weight body construction (sandwich panels);
lifetime > 20 year
 All wheel steering
 Flexibility in design; interior, exterior and system lay-out
 Independent wheel suspension
 Large capacity 18m (up to 140 passengers)
 Maximum weight 27,000 kg
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First 18 m Fuel Cell vehicle in the world!
Specification Phileas H2 for GVB & RVK
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System lay-out of the Phileas
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GVB Amsterdam:
• 2 buses from 15 Aug.’11
• Testing phase on the line
RVK Cologne:
• 2 buses from 1 June ’11
• Testing phase completed
• Driving in service
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Future feasibility of fuel cell projects
• Price fuel cell and hybrid system should go down
• Life time has to raise; 12,000 hours means approximately
$ 2,00/km; incl. hybrid $ 3.50/km. This will never
affordable to the operators.
• Lot of improvements made last years in size, costs,
weight, etc. Still not enough! Maybe technology should be
improved.
• Very poor infrastructure of fuelling stations for H2.
• We are running out of time! Battery developments will
catch up with H2 rapidly.
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Thank you for
your attention!
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Phileas
The beginning of the
end of iron rail in
city transport