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Honda has patented a motorcycle with a fuel cell drive.
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The concept is based on an air-cooled fuel cell and a tubular frame. The hydrogen tank sits under the bench.
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Another patent shows the air duct for cooling and intake air.
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Air control elements capture the air currents.
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Dirt particles should be automatically deposited through a clever deflection.
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The central air inlet for the intake air is located under the steering head.
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The cooling air is captured on the side next to it.
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Air inlet under the steering head.
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Honda has filed patents on a fuel cell motorcycle.
Honda fuel cell motorcycle
New patent for the hydrogen bike
Honda and other manufacturers are working on the fuel cell motorcycle. With the help of an industrial alliance, Japanese companies want to massively promote this future-oriented technology. Now Honda has filed new patents.
Michael Schumann,
Uli Baumann,
Michael Schumann
April 15, 2019
It sounds so simple: In a fuel cell, hydrogen and oxygen are used in a controlled reaction to generate energy. The electricity generated drives the vehicle by means of an electric motor; the only “exhaust gas” that is produced is pure water vapor. The technology is there and it works. With the Crosscage model, Suzuki presented a hydrogen-powered motorcycle prototype back in 2007. But the Suzuki Crosscage disappeared again into oblivion.
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Honda had already filed a patent application in the USA in October 2017 to protect the advanced technology. The patent shows a more conventionally designed motorcycle. The air-cooled fuel cell takes up the space otherwise occupied by the combustion engine. The hydrogen tank sits under the seat bench and the stern. A conventional telescopic fork springs and guides the wheel at the front. The rear wheel hangs on a single-arm swing arm with cardan drive, which is supported by a slanting spring strut on the tubular frame with girders around the side of the fuel cell.
Another indication: In Japan, leading corporations, including Honda, Nissan and Toyota, energy suppliers and the Development Bank of Japan joined forces in 2017 with the aim of founding a development company to accelerate the development of the hydrogen filling station network. The aim is for 160 filling stations across Japan to offer this difficult-to-store hydrogen by 2020. Around 40,000 fuel cell vehicles should be on the road in Japan by then. Another goal is to make the previously enormously expensive production of hydrogen cheaper and thus to make its use more profitable. In 2018 it was quiet about the fuel cell motorcycle.
Patented intake air duct
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Another Honda patent for a fuel cell motorcycle was published in April 2019. The new patent revolves around the air intake system that supplies the fuel cell with the oxygen it needs. The intake duct, which begins between the fork bars under the steering head, is designed in such a way that sucked in dirt particles are deposited at a turning point and thus cannot reach the fuel cell. The cooling air for the fuel cell is flanked by air guide elements and then flows through the cladding supported by a fan.
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