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Fuel cell electric vehicles are expected to support the effort to overcome the economic and ecological challenges in the automotive sector. Just as battery electric vehicles, fuel cell electric vehicles also offer locally emission free mobility. The drive system of fuel cell electric vehicles consists of a fuel cell system, an electric motor, power electronics, a hydrogen storage system as well as a rechargeable energy storage system, typically a battery. The quantified power ratio between the fuel cell system and the rechargeable energy storage system is referred to as the degree of hybridization, although inconsistent definitions are used.

In contrast to passenger cars, commercial vehicles exist in many layouts for different customer applications. The Daimler AG provides with their Mercedes Benz Trucks a product portfolio of 6 commercial vehicles (Econic, Atego, Axor, Actros, Zetros, Unimog), which are available in a multiplicity of model variants. Therefore, the well-known driving cycles of passenger cars such as NEDC (Europe), the 10-15 mode (Japan), the FTP & FTP75 (USA) and others cannot be used in regard to fuel consumption or dimensioning of a commercial vehicle [1, 6, 15]. A diversification of type and usage of the commercial vehicles is obligatory necessary, as already shown in publications of Holloh et al. [10] However, this paper offers a method which uses collected data from customers, in order to develop objective reference cycles or test cases. This described method can be equally used for both, creating the reference cycles of commercial vehicles mentioned above, as well as passenger cars.