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HYDROGEN-POWERED SUZUKI BURGMAN

Suzuki continues to explore hydrogen as a fuel source.

By Ben Purvis
October 18, 2023

The latest hydrogen-powered prototype from Suzuki feeds hydrogen from its 10,000
psi tank to the modified 400cc internal combustion engine.Suzuki

Suzuki has been banging the drum for hydrogen as a clean fuel for well over a
decade and this year’s Tokyo Motor Show—renamed as the Japan Mobility Show for
2023—is where the company will show its latest hydrogen-powered prototype.



Suzuki’s prototype Burgman scooter is an evolution of models the Hamamatsu
company has been testing since 2010.Suzuki

It’s a modified Burgman 400 scooter, and if that sounds familiar that’s because
Suzuki has been showing various hydrogen-powered Burgman scooters since 2010.
What’s changed, though, is how that hydrogen is being used. All of Suzuki’s
previous hydrogen scooters, including multiple running prototypes and even a set
of semi-production bikes used in an 18-month trial by the Metropolitan Police in
London in 2017 to 2018, have used hydrogen fuel cells to power electric motors.
The new prototype takes a completely different route and burns the hydrogen in a
modified version of the existing Burgman 400′s single-cylinder internal
combustion engine.



Related: Ask Kevin: Motorcycles, Fuels, and Climate Neutrality



All the way back in 2007, Suzuki showed its Crosscage concept, which proposed
hydrogen power. Suzuki

Suzuki has flirted with hydrogen fuel cells since 2007 when it showed the
Crosscage concept bike. Around the same time, it tied in with British company
Intelligent Energy, which developed the fuel-cell system used in all the
prototypes that followed. Fuel cells promise the clean-running benefits of
electric power but with the ability to rapidly refuel hydrogen tanks rather than
needing to recharge batteries. However, earlier this year Suzuki became a member
of the HySE collaboration—alongside Honda, Yamaha, and Kawasaki—to develop
hydrogen-fueled combustion engines for small vehicles, including motorcycles.
Specifically, Suzuki’s role in the organization is “Element study on
functionality, performance, and reliability of hydrogen-powered engines.” That’s
where the new Burgman prototype comes in.


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The argument for hydrogen is that it can be easily refilled unlike the wait time
required to charge an EV.Suzuki

It’s built around a standard Burgman 400 scooter, although the engine needs some
substantial modifications to run on hydrogen instead of gasoline. Details of
those changes aren’t known now, but they’re likely to include direct fuel
injection. The hydrogen itself is stored at 700 bar (around 10,000 psi) in a
tank between the rider’s feet, fueled from a socket just below the right-hand
side of the seat.



To make space for that tank, the swingarm and engine, which are a single unit,
are moved backward by around 8 inches, giving the prototype its unusually long
wheelbase. On the positive side, the bike doesn’t lose its underseat storage
space, like the fuel-cell prototypes did.



You can read Kevin Cameron’s dive into the practicalities of hydrogen as a fuel
for combustion engines here.






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