Transient phenomena in automotive fuel cells are poorly understood at present. In addition to the complex dynamic response involving various time scales, severe degradation of MEAs in a PEFC has been observed and attributed to the transient operation; these include fuel/oxidant starvation, membrane dry out, electrode flooding, and voltage reversal [3,4]. A simpletype of transients due to gas reactant transport to the catalytic sites was first explored by Um et al.[5]in 2000 and most recently further modeled by Yan et al. [6] and Shimpalee et al. [7]. This transient phenomenon typically occurs in the sub-second range.