In order to study the prediction and health management of PEMFCs(proton exchange membrane fuel cells) for vehicles, a method combining GWO(grey wolf optimizer) and RBF(radial basis function) neural network with relative power loss rate as a health indicator was proposed to predict the remaining useful life of vehicular PEMFCs. Firstly, by analyzing the polarization curve of the fuel cell at the initial moment, a calculation method based on the relative power loss rate as a health indicator was constructed, and its feasibility was verified using the grey correlation analysis method. Then, the RBF neural network optimized by GWO algorithm was applied to predict the remaining useful life of vehicular PEMFCs. Finally, the proposed method was validated using two datasets. The results show that compared with other methods, the GWO-RBF method proposed in this paper has the smallest average absolute percentage error and root mean square error, the largest coefficient of determination, and a relative error of less than 1%. It is concluded that the proposed method can be used to predict the remaining useful life of vehicular PEMFCs with fewer datasets and better accuracy.