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Given the growing concern for environmental issues, the automotive industry is working more deeply on the development of innovative technologies that reduce gas emissions and fuel consumption. Many car manufacturers have identified hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) and fuel cell vehicles as the most promising solutions alternatives. IDRApegasus is a fuel cell hydrogen vehicle developed at the Politecnico of Turin. It participated at the Shell Eco-marathon Europe in Rotterdam (Netherlands) from 17-19 May 2012, a competition for low energy consumption vehicles and also an educational project that joins the value of sustainable development with a vehicle that will use the smallest amount of fuel and produce the lowest emissions possible.

Nowadays gas emissions and fuel consumption are two of the major challenges for the automotive industry arisen from the ever-increasing relevance of environmental issues. Over the last few years, Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV) and Fuel Cell Vehicles have been developed as the most promising solutions that can address these challenges. XAM (eXtreme Automotive Mobility) is a parallel hybrid electric vehicle for urban transportation developed at the Politecnico of Turin. Since 2011 it participated to the Shell Eco-marathon Europe, a competition for low consumption vehicles. In the race XAM runs within the Urban Concept category and is powered by bio-ethanol. XAM is a plug-in parallel hybrid where traction can be provided by internal combustion engine or by electric motor fed by supercapacitor. A 1D simulation model of the vehicle and its subsystems has been created in AMESim in order to predict the behavior of the vehicle during the race.