All Future Mazda Cars Will Be Electrified By 2035

We don’t know where we will be 18 years from now, but Mazda apparently does, as they have announced their future plans during the Global Tech Forum, in Frankfurt.

Citing sources within the company, AutoExpress reports that the brand’s future range of vehicles will be electrified, in one way or another, by 2035.

The lineup will consist of mild hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and fully electric models, but it seems that Mazda has no plans of chasing after the Honda Clarity, Toyota Mirai, Hyundai ix35/Tucson, Mercedes-Benz F-Cell GLC and others with a hydrogen-powered car, as no such product has been announced so far.

Instead, the automaker is expected to debut its first mild hybrid variants of core vehicles in two years’ time, and 2019 is also when we should see their very first zero-emission car. This will apparently become available with a rotary range extender option – not quite the new RX-8 you were expecting, right?

From 2021, Mazda will take the battle to the plug-in hybrid territory, a weird decision to launch such vehicles after the EVs, which was explained by the Managing Executive Officer for powertrain development, Ichiro Hirose, who said that this had to happen, due to the regulation in key markets.

Moreover, a new range of super-clean petrol engines, with compression ignition technology, will hit the market in 2019, under the SkyActiv-X moniker.

The first Mazda autonomous cars are expected to arrive by 2025, five years after testing begins.

Note: Mazda Hazumi Concept pictured