Suzuki gets ready to deliver its hydrogen fuel cell motorcycle
(Source: Autobloggreen & Gizmag) & Mc24.no)
It’s been a little while since we last heard from Suzuki regarding its planned hydrogen fuel cell motorcycle, Crosscage, but apparently the Japanese company has been hard at work getting the machine ready for production. According to Ivar Kvadsheim over at MC24.no, teams from both Suzuki and Intelligent Energy were present at the EVS24 event in Stavanger, Norway, with their fuel cell-powered machines.
Image Courtesy: Autobloggreen
In the ENV and Cross Cage used tl cell to produce electricity to recharge the batteries, which in turn drive electric motor. On the prototype cell gives a power of 1 kW and delivers power to a motor that gives 8 horsepower. The new cell will be used in the production models are lighter and more efficient and delivers 1.8 kW, almost double the output.
Over the last few years, Intelligent Energy has reportedly managed to increase the output of its fuel cell from 1 kW to 1.8 kW, and both its ENV bike and Suzuki Crosscage will use this same power source. That’s great, but the real issue holding up production is the bike’s hydrogen storage tank. It seems the two companies were planning to use a tank from BMW, but later found out that unit was only approved for automotive use and couldn’t be legally used in a motorcycle. So we have to go through the entire process to create and get approved a new container, “explains Dennis Hayter of Intelligent Energy.
This process will probably take about four months. Then both Suzuki and Intelligent Energy to run a few months of testing with an approved container, before they can be put into regular production.
It is expected that both ENV and Cross Cage arrive for sale in the course of next year, probably already in the spring. Bikes will have a range of 160 miles and Hayter estimates a price of around 8000 Euro.
According to Gizmag, Suzuki’s Crosscage will feature a single-sided suspension front AND rear. The brushless electric motor’s mounted inline with the rear wheel, and looks-wise it’s so far out there that it’s on its way back again. It was rumoured that Bridgestone’s even developed a special futuristic-looking tyre to match the bike’s oddly tesselated discs.
We should concentrate more on Alternative Energy sources like Hydrogen Fuel because fossil fuels are already depleted and they are polluting the environment
Hydrogen Fuel is very promising, i only hope that we can mass produce soon enough.;**
Hydrogen Fuel is NOT a ‘fuel’
it is a way of moving energy from one place to another.
It seems many people simply do not understand this fact.
Ask this: “HOW is the hydrogen being collected? Is it via a nuclear plant? Or, a coal fired plant? Via wind or photovotaic?
Try to see hydrogen as a link in a one sort of a fuel system. NOT as a fuel.
Hydrogen powered is awesome, now why does the concept motorcycles always look worse than current production motorcycles!
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