Mazda Canada: 'Sustainable Zoom-Zoom 2030'
Mazda Motor Corporation’s ‘Sustainable Zoom-Zoom 2030’ is a new long-term vision for technology development that looks ahead to the year 2030.
As part of the new technology to achieve this vision, Mazda has introduced a next-generation engine called Skyactiv-X, the world’s first commercial gasoline engine to use compression ignition. It will be debut in 2019.
Under the original “Sustainable Zoom-Zoom” vision announced in 2007, Mazda has striven to offer both driving pleasure and outstanding environmental and safety performance.
In light of the rapid changes taking place in the automotive industry, the new vision takes a longer-term perspective and sets out how Mazda will use driving pleasure, the fundamental appeal of the automobile, to help solve issues facing people, the earth and society.
Mazda believes its mission is to bring about a beautiful earth and to enrich people’s lives as well as society. The company will continue to seek ways to inspire people through the value found in cars. Through conservation initiatives, it will create a sustainable future in which people and cars coexist with a bountiful, beautiful earth.
Mazda plans to achieve this by a number of ways.
One is to expand measures for carbon dioxide reduction from a “well-to-wheel” perspective, considering emissions over the vehicle’s entire life cycle. Also, aim to reduce corporate average “well-to-wheel” carbon dioxide emissions to 50 per cent of 2010 levels by 2030, and achieve a 90 per cent reduction by 2050.
The company will establish a policy prioritizing efficiency improvements and measures for cleaner emissions that apply in the real world. In line with this policy, Mazda will continue efforts to perfect the internal combustion engine, which will help power the majority of cars worldwide for many years to come and can therefore make the greatest contribution to reducing carbon dioxide emissions, and combine the results with effective electrification technologies.
From 2019, Mazda will start introducing electric vehicles and other electric drive technologies in regions that use a high ratio of clean energy for power generation or restrict certain vehicles to reduce air pollution. Through cars and a society that provide safety and peace of mind, Mazda will create a system that enriches people’s lives by offering unrestricted mobility to people everywhere.
Mazda’s approach will be to develop more advanced safety technologies under the Mazda Proactive Safety philosophy, working toward the goal of eliminating traffic accidents.
Also, the company will further enhance safety fundamentals, such as correct driving position, pedal layout and good visibility, and standardize them across all models. This includes the further standardization of i-Activsense advanced safety features, which help drivers recognize and assess potential hazards; in addition to Japan, where they are already becoming standard, Mazda will gradually make these technologies standard in other markets starting in 2018.
The company will begin testing of autonomous driving technologies currently being developed in line with Mazda’s human-centered Mazda Co-Pilot Concept2 in 2020, aiming to make the system standard on all models by 202
By using connectivity technologies, Mazda will create a new business model that enables car owners to support the needs of people in depopulated areas and those who have difficulty getting around The company will enhance customers’ mental well-being with the satisfaction that comes from protecting the earth and contributing to society with a car that offers true driving pleasure.
Mazda will achieve this by pursuing an enhanced Jinba-ittai driving feel that will unlock people’s potential and revitalize them mentally and physically.
Based on the philosophy of “breathing life into the car,” the company will further develop KODO design to raise vehicle design to the level of art that enriches the emotional lives of all who see it
As mentioned, Skyactiv-X is the world’s first commercial gasoline engine to use compression ignition, in which the fuel-air mixture ignites spontaneously when compressed by the piston .
A proprietary combustion method called Spark Controlled Compression Ignition overcomes two issues that had impeded commercialization of compression ignition gasoline engines: maximizing the zone in which compression ignition is possible and achieving a seamless transition between compression ignition and spark ignition.
This new proprietary combustion engine combines the advantages of gasoline and diesel engines to achieve outstanding environmental performance, power and acceleration performance.
Compression ignition and a supercharger fitted to improve fuel economy together deliver unprecedented engine response and increase torque 10 to 30 per cent over the current Skyactiv-G gasoline engine.
Compression ignition makes possible a super lean burn that improves engine efficiency up to 20 to 30 per cent over the current Skyactiv-G, and from 35 to 45 per cent over Mazda’s 2008 gasoline engine of the same displacement. Skyactiv-X even equals or exceeds the latest Skyactiv-D diesel engine in fuel efficiency.
Moving forward Mazda hopes to help create a future in which people, the earth and society can coexist with cars, to enrich people’s lives through a car ownership experience that celebrates driving, and to become a brand with which customers feel a strong emotional connection.