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Fuel cells are expected to play an important role in the near future as prime energy source on board of road-going vehicles. In order to be able to test all important functional aspects of a fuel cell hybrid drive train, the Automotive Institute of the HAN University has decided to realize a stationary test facility, comprising an 8 kW PEM stack and a 185 [Ah] 48 [V] NiCd battery, which is connected to an asynchronous motor, which is loaded by an eddy current brake. The objective of the test facility is to provide an efficient and accessible test platform for the development of fuel cell hybrid drive trains and subsystems. This paper describes the HAN fuel cell hybrid drive train test facility and some of the experimental results that have been obtained during the process that was needed to make the facility operational.