Met police to trial hydrogen scooters

The Metropolitan Police is set to trial hydrogen powered scooters in a bid to reduce harmful emissions in London.

As of today, 4 September, the Met’s Fleet Services will trial seven Suzuki ‘Burgman Fuel Cell’, zero emission hydrogen scooters as part of its operations.

The trial will last for 18 months and will allow the Met police to assess the suitability of the scooters for different roles.

They will be used by police community support officer within the Roads and Transport Policing Command and will be based at Alperton Deployment Centre.

The trial is being run at no cost to the Met, with the loan of the vehicles from Suzuki Motor Corporation.

The maintenance and fuel costs will be met by a collaborative project which is being part-funded by the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC). Lead partner of this project is the British fuel cell technology company Intelligent Energy in association with Suzuki GB and Cenex.

Commander Neil Jerome, for Territorial Policing, said: “Being the UK’s largest police service we constantly have vehicles on the roads and therefore it is our aim to make our fleet as clean as we can, whilst maintaining operational capability.

“We are thankful to Suzuki and our partners and look forward with optimism about this innovative and groundbreaking trial. Through collaborative partnerships and innovative testing such as this, we can gain real-life experience of how we can progress our ambition and create a cleaner fleet that will benefit London and the service we provide.”