Suzuki which is developing FC motorcycles implements verification runs of FC motorcycle on public roads for a period from March 2017 to March 2019.

The drivers of 30 motorcycles for the verification run are confined to Suzuki’s employees and those leased from other companies. The verification running is carried out in the areas where Suzuki made preliminary explanations to the local authorities, police and fire service offices. Hydrogen is filled at the commercial H2 stations in the areas.

Suzuki has been developing a light-weight and low-cost FC motorcycle to promote materialization of a hydrogen society in collaboration with Intelligence Energy of UK since 2006.

A verification test was first made in UK in 2010 and then Kita-Kyushu in 2011. The safety standard of FC motorcycle was enacted in February 2016 and as Suzuki obtained the certification of type approval necessary for the number of motorcycle in August 2016, it decided to go ahead with the running test on the public roads.

The executable areas are Shizuoka Prefecture and Fukuoka Prefectures under the lease of operators by companies as well as Tokyo Metropolis and Kanagawa Prefecture run by the Suzuki employees. Hydrogen is filled in common use with FCV at six stations in three prefectural areas of Shizuoka, Fukuoka land Tokyo. By the time commercialization is realized it is desired to expand the current station with a filling facility for FC motorcycles.




The specifications of motorcycle is 2095mm long, 740mm wide, 1365mm high and weighing 199kg with an engine displacement of 126 to 250cc. According to Suzuki’s internal test, a possible running distance is 120km at a speed of 60kg/h per filling and the maximum possible speed is 75km/h.

An aluminum 10L-type 3 cylinder of 70MPa is loaded instead of a plastic type-4 cylinder because the temperature of cylinder rises by filling of hydrogen.

As for the polymer electrolyte fuel with the rated output of 3.5kW, a cooling system has been contrived as it causes heat for operation due to downsizing. Comparing with the water-cooling system to pour water to the pipe provided inside the fuel cell, the number of parts like pipes has been reduced to one fourth by employing the air-cooling system of simple structure.

Toru Ota of Suzuki’s dedicated staff of design planning for the development of Motor-driven Car Department said, “The circumstance to launch FC motorcycle to the market is on the way toward an appropriate formation now as seen in the enactment of the standard and filling facilities of hydrogen. We are going to make our efforts to improve the performance of motorcycle itself and reduce cost as well as the implementation of verification tests from now on.”