It’s almost been a full year since Suzuki announced its plans for an electric motorcycle release in 2024, but we haven’t seen much about the bike—does that mean it’s canceled? According to the bigwigs, no—while we’ve certainly seen Suzook projects vanish into the vaporware file (anyone remember the six-cylinder Stratosphere project?), sales manager Akira Kyuji said Suzuki’s battery bike is coming next year.

Kyuji’s comments came in an interview with Brit publication MCN. He told them that unless something unforeseen happens, Suzuki will bring out a battery-powered motorcycle in 2024, but it won’t be a full-sized motorcycle like a Zero. It will be smaller, the rough equivalent of a 125 cc scooter. This Burgman project we heard about a while back is probably more-or-less what’s coming.

No doubt some riders would hope for more, considering the performance that’s possible from an electric motor, but this seems to be where the moto industry is headed in coming years, and Suzuki is on board with that plan. The current limitations of battery technology (range, weight, expense) are no different for Suzuki than any other manufacturer.

Instead of working on heavyweight battery bikes, Suzuki is looking at other potential tech, says Kyuji. He told MCN that the limited sales that other manufacturers have seen with full-sized EV motorcycles (as we touched on briefly at the end of this story, with the LiveWire) has made Suzuki consider bio-fuels, efuels and hydrogen. We’ve already seen the first forays into that territory, with a hydrogen-powered Burgman on display at the Japan Mobility Conference. Suzuki is also part of a consortium of moto manufacturers (also including Toyota) that is looking into the possibilities of hydrogen.

In the face of increasing government moves against internal combustion, plays are being worked out, then. We’ll just have to wait and see where government leaders push OEMs, and hope the end result works out well for us as riders.