REPORT: Suzuki hoping to continue GM collaboration for green tech

It may come since a surprise to many that Suzuki, just a small niche player in the U.S. automotive market, sells more vehicles in Japan than every automaker besides Toyota. Most of Suzuki’s sales, though, are of the tiny Kei car variety and therefore feature engines displacing just 660cc. As much as we’d attachment to see a few little Kei cars here in the States, federal shatter test regulations seem unlikely to deduct that any time soon.

For this reason, Suzuki is reportedly counting on its ongoing collaboration with General Motors notwithstanding the development of hybrid and electric automobile technology. In addition to its hopeful partnership with The General, Suzuki is aforesaid to be investing much of its $1.1 billion budget for study and development of relating to electricity vehicles and hybrid drivetrains of its own design.

Gallery: Suzuki Alto Lapin

Source: www.autobloggreen.com

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