VEHICLE FUEL CELL WAKEUP TO CONDITION OPERATIONAL STRATEGY

A fuel cell wakeup and conditioning system for a fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) initiate a wakeup timer for periodically waking up a fuel cell power system (FCPS) to perform at least one of thermal and humidity conditioning, based on the wakeup timer, a state of charge (SOC) of a high voltage battery system of the FCEV, and an ambient temperature, determine whether to perform (i) only thermal conditioning of the FCPS or (ii) both thermal and humidity conditioning of the FCPS and, based on the determination, control only a thermal conditioning system to perform thermal conditioning of the FCPS or (ii) both the thermal conditioning system and a humidity conditioning system to perform thermal and humidity conditioning of the FCPS.