Suzuki Motor Corporation has positioned India as a central hub in its global technology roadmap, announcing plans to introduce flex-fuel vehicles (FFVs) this fiscal year and to scale up its biogas initiative in partnership with local dairy cooperatives. The update came during the Japanese automaker’s Technology Strategy Briefing 2025, held on Tuesday.
FFVs are internal combustion engine vehicles capable of running on multiple fuels, typically blends of gasoline with ethanol or methanol.
“As for carbon-neutral fuel technologies, we have already begun deployment in India. All motorcycle and automobile models are now compatible with E20 fuel, mass production of FFV models for motorcycles has already started, and development is underway to launch FFV models for automobiles within this fiscal year,” Toshihiro Suzuki, Representative Director and President, Suzuki Motor Corporation, said in the technology strategy briefing in Japan.
He further added, “In India, we started introducing E20 bioethanol-compatible engines this April, and plan to launch FFVs that support up to 85% bioethanol within this fiscal year. We’re also building CBG plants and adapting our CNG vehicles to carbon-neutral fuels.”
One of Suzuki’s unique initiatives toward realizing a carbon-neutral society is biogas business.
Suzuki stated, “This project aims to convert the manure from India’s 300 million cattle into biogas, a carbon-neutral fuel, and organic fertilizer. The biogas will be used directly in CNG vehicles, which already account for one out of every three vehicles sold by Maruti Suzuki. By combining what already exists, naturally available cow dung and the existing fleet of CNG vehicles, we can contribute to minimizing energy consumption.”
“Suzuki, together with India’s dairy cooperatives, is constructing biogas production plants, which will begin operations sequentially from 2025.
Purchasing cow dung will not only help improve the incomes of rural communities—home to one billion people—but will also contribute to India’s national goals of self-sufficiency in energy and fertilizer.Suzuki will continue to advance its biogas business in step with India’s robust growth, working toward the realization of a carbon-neutral society,” he further added.
