Mazda announces new hybrids, electric and new platform

As part of the Sustainable Zoom-Zoom 2030 plan, an autonomous driving system is also included, which will be ready in 2022.

Mazda released a plan that it has called Sustainable Zoom-Zoom 2030, which in turn is part of a plan with a view to being zero carbon in 2050, within which it plans to launch five hybrid vehicles, five plug-in hybrids and three electric from here to 2025, by which time it will also introduce a new platform for electrics called SKYACTIV EV Scalable Architecture.

Starting with the aforementioned vehicles, these will start to appear from 2022 and will be destined mainly for the markets of the United States, China, Europe, the region of Southeast Asia (ASEAN) and, of course, Japan. Among the five hybrids, Mazda clarifies that this excludes mild hybrids and that it will include some that are equipped with the Toyota Hybrid System.

In 2025 they will launch the SKYACTIV EV Scalable Architecture platform specifically for electric vehicles of different sizes and body types. However, there is still no information on which will be the hybrids and electrics mentioned above (probably new variants of existing vehicles) or which will use this new platform. Safety is also a central part of Mazda’s plans and from 2022 its largest vehicles will begin to be equipped with the Mazda Co-Pilot 1.0 autonomous driving system. Its main function will be to monitor the driver at all times and in case of detecting any change in his physical condition, the system automatically takes control of the vehicle to stop it in a safe place and activates an emergency call to rescue teams.