Patent ID: 7968239

Claim:
A fuel cell system adapted to be installed on a moving object, the fuel cell system comprising: an electric power generating element including a fuel cell supplied with fuel gas and oxidizing gas to generate electric power; different warm-up mechanisms including a warm-up mechanism operated by a combustion and a warm-up mechanism operated by electric power, and dependent on a condition related to start-up of the fuel cell system to carry out warm up of the electric power generating element; and a controller controlling an operation of the fuel cell system, and in response to reception of a control signal transmitted from an external remote operator unit and commanding a start-up completion time at which the start-up of the fuel cell system is to be completed through the warm-up of the electric power generating element, controlling the warm-up mechanisms to allow the warm-up of the electric power generating element to be completed in alignment with the start-up completion time, wherein the controller is configured to select and control one of the different warm-up mechanisms in response to the received control signal and dependent on the condition related to the start-up of the fuel cell system, the condition including a residual time with respect to the start-up completion time and a temperature of the electric power generating element thereby carrying out the warm-up of the electric power generating element with the one of the different warm-up mechanisms, which is selected by the controller, in a start-up control operation of the fuel cell system wherein the residual time is less than the start-up completion time.