Patent ID: 8261863

Claim:
A process for operating a fuel cell system arranged in a vehicle, the process comprising: communicating one or more of a foreseeable travel time duration and a foreseeable travel time end point to a control device of the fuel cell system at the beginning of a travel of the vehicle or during the travel; operating the fuel cell system with the control device such that at least one of: a switch-off procedure for switching off the fuel cell system is started in time, before the foreseeable end of travel, such that the switch-off procedure will have taken place completely extensively simultaneously with the foreseeable end of travel and the fuel cell system is switched off or brought into a standby mode; and a switch-on procedure for switching on the fuel cell system is started in time, before the foreseeable end of travel, such that the switch-on procedure will have taken place completely extensively simultaneously with the foreseeable end of travel and the fuel cell system is switched on or brought into a standby mode.