SCCER Efficient Technologies and Systems for Mobility

Capacity Area A2: Chemical Energy Converters

At a glance

Project leader : Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schumacher
Project team : Luigino Capone, Dr. Jaka Dujc, Dr. Robert Herrendörfer, Vit Ovara, Dr. Roman Vetter
Project budget : CHF 368'877
Project status : completed
Funding partner : CTI (Förderprogramm Energie / SCCER Mobility), Federal government (Bundesamt für Energie BFE)
Project partner : Paul Scherrer Institut PSI
Contact person : Jürgen Schumacher

Description

About 34% of total energy use in Switzerland is in the transport sector – moving people and goods around on roads, rail and in the air. This mainly involves the use of fossil fuels, with associated high levels of CO2 emissions. The Efficient Technologies and Systems for Mobility SCCER in the area of action on ‘Efficient concepts, processes and components in mobility’ aims to provide knowledge and technologies that allow to implement a long-term transport system.

Capacity Area A2 focuses on the transfer from fossil to renewable fuel operated combustion engines and fuel cell technologies with increased efficiency for passenger cars, busses, light and heavy duty trucks.

Fuel cell research concentrates on hydrogen from fluctuating renewables. Hydrogen fed fuel cells are a highly efficient drivetrain technology (>50% real life cycle). Further technological innovation is needed for the commercial breakthrough of fuel cell technology in individual mobility, e.g. the development of a novel concept of thermo-neutral fuel cell operation thus promoting the marketability of fuel cell vehicles by simplification of the overall system.

Further information

Publications

Hörler, Raphael; Stoiber, Thomas; Del Duce, Andrea,

2023.

Battling the large car boom: How to increase the adoption of small battery electric vehicles [paper].

In:

9th Transport Research Arena (TRA), Lisbon, Portugal, 14-17 November 2022.

Elsevier.

pp. 1296-1302.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2023.11.590
Hoerler, Raphael; Stoiber, Thomas; Del Duce, Andrea,

2023.

Push and pull strategies to increase the uptake of small electric vehicles.

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment.

116(103638).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2023.103638
Hörler, Raphael,

2022.

Could battery electric vehicle purchase price subsidies and improvements in charging infrastructure lead to car free households buying a car? : a multiple price list choice experiment with Swiss households.

In:

3rd International Conference on Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS), Manchester, United Kingdom, 20-23 June 2022.
Hörler, Raphael,

2022.

Sustainable transformation of the mobility system : the interplay between mobility services and electric vehicles.

ETH Zurich.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000583791
Hörler, Raphael,

2022.

The interplay between sharing services and battery electric vehicles : relevant push&pull measures in supporting the transformation to a sustainable mobility system.

In:

Book of Abstracts INUAS Konferenz 2022.

INUAS Conference 2022 "Urban Transformations: Public Spaces", Winterthur, Switzerland, 7-9 September 2022.

pp. 118-119.
Hoerler, Raphael; Tomic, Uros; Del Duce, Andrea,

2021.

Feedback loops in mobility and recommendations on system transformation – the Swiss case.

Winterthur:

ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-23359
Hoerler, Raphael; Tomic, Uros; Del Duce, Andrea,

2021.

Swiss mobility transformation to sustainability : recommendations on niche developments.

Winterthur:

ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-22661
Hoerler, Raphael; van Dijk, Jeremy; Patt, Anthony; Del Duce, Andrea,

2021.

Carsharing experience fostering sustainable car purchasing? : investigating car size and powertrain choice.

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment.

96(102861).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2021.102861
Hoerler, Raphael; Tomic, Uros; Dijk, Jeremy Van; Patt, Anthony; Del Duce, Andrea,

2020.

Are carsharing users more likely to buy a battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric or hybrid electric vehicle? : powertrain choice and shared mobility in Switzerland [paper].

In:

2020 Forum on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems (FISTS), Delft, Netherlands, Online, 3-5 November 2020.

Delft:

IEEE.

pp. 70-76.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/FISTS46898.2020.9264903
Stoiber, Thomas; Hoerler, Raphael,

2020.

Drivers for utilizing pooled-use automated vehicles : empirical insights from Switzerland [paper].

In:

2020 Forum on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems (FISTS), Delft, Netherlands, Online, 3-5 November 2020.

Delft:

IEEE.

pp. 114-120.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/FISTS46898.2020.9264900
Herrendörfer, Robert; Schumacher, Jürgen; Cochet, Magali; Büchi, Felix N.; Boillat, Pierre,

2020.

3-D simulation of water and heat transport processes in fuel cells during evaporative cooling and humidification [poster].

In:

7th SCCER Mobility Annual Conference, Online, 23 November 2020.

ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-20916
Hoerler, Raphael; Stünzi, Anna; Patt, Anthony; Del Duce, Andrea,

2020.

What are the factors and needs promoting mobility-as-a-service? Findings from the Swiss Household Energy Demand Survey (SHEDS).

European Transport Research Review.

12(27).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12544-020-00412-y
Tomic, Uros; Hoerler, Raphael; Del Duce, Andrea,

2019.

Mode choice for commuting and leisure : a matter of lifestyle? [poster].

In:

6th SCCER Mobility Annual Conference, Zurich, 6 September 2019.

ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-18758
Hoerler, Raphael; Tomic, Uros; Del Duce, Andrea,

2019.

Transforming the Swiss mobility system : who are the future e-sharers? [poster].

In:

6th SCCER Mobility Annual Conference, Zurich, 6 September 2019.

ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-18759
Hoerler, Raphael; Hoppe, Merja,

2018.

Trends, behaviour and system dynamics : guiding principles for transformation [poster].

In:

5th SCCER Mobility Annual Conference, Zurich, 11 September 2018.

ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-18194
Boillat, Pierre; Cochet, Magali; Büchi, Felix; Lamibrac, Adrien; Mularczyk, Adrian; Vetter, Roman; Schumacher, Jürgen Otto,

2017.

Hydrogen for electromobility : a promising energy carrier [poster].

In:

4th Annual Conference SCCER Mobility, Zürich, 4. September 2017.

ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3627

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