Tetsuo Suzuki is the vice president of Fuel Cell System Manufacturing LLC (FCSM), a joint venture between Honda and General Motors (GM) located in Brownstown, Mich. for production of an advanced hydrogen fuel cell system.
Suzuki joined Honda Motor Co., Ltd., in 1990, as a manufacturing engineer in the powertrain area.
In the late 1990s, he helped develop the manufacturing process for the electric motor in the first-generation Honda Insight, the first hybrid-electric car sold in the U.S.
In April 2009, he became assistant manager for the Powertrain R&D Division of Honda Engineering Co., Ltd., which was Honda’s proprietary production engineering company.
In May 2011, Suzuki moved to the U.S. and took on the role as manager of the Powertrain Division of Honda Engineering North America, Inc.
In April 2015, he was named plant manager of the Anna Engine Plant (AEP) in Ohio, Honda’s largest auto engine plant in the world.
In October 2017, Suzuki became the manufacturing technical lead of FCSM, a joint venture established that year by Honda and GM, based on equal investments totaling $85 million. FCSM is the auto industry’s first manufacturing joint venture to mass-produce an advanced hydrogen fuel cell system co-developed by Honda and GM.
In April 2019, Suzuki assumed his current role as vice president where he was responsible for the start of mass production of fuel cell systems at FCSM in December 2023.
