Suzuki Developing Fuel Cell Vehicle
Suzuki’s hydrogen-powered Burgman scooter has become the world’s first fuel-cell vehicle to pass European Whole Vehicle Type Approval tests.
According to a press release: Developed in the UK with British firm Intelligent Energy, the fuel cell Burgman has been undergoing trials for the last year, and soon the firm expects to have several of the bikes under test in public. While it’s not a production machine, so Suzuki could have used Europe’s ‘Single Vehicle’ type approval to get each test bike road registered, instead the firm has opted for ‘Whole Vehicle’ approval – effectively homologation that means the test bike and any more that Suzuki build are legal anywhere in Europe. Basically, it’s something that’s normally only done on mass-produced vehicles.
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