Mazda developed electric car with 200 km range
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Mazda developed an electric vehicle and the implementation plans under a leasing program in the spring of 2012 in Japan. Developed in-house Electric vehicle based on the Demio compact car (Mazda2 in Europe) and is predominantly leased to local government authorities and fleet customers. Mazda is aiming for electric vehicle at fully charged batteries with a range of 200 kilometers.
Currently, Mazda is driving under the umbrella term SKYACTIV a significant optimization of gasoline and diesel engines, manual and automatic gearboxes as well as progress of weight-reduced platforms and bodies. Based on it successively Mazda electric drive components such as regenerative braking systems and Hybrid systems . Insert The first results of this strategy SKYACTIV be introduced globally this year. In parallel with this Mazda continued the development work on electric vehicles. With the help of the proposed leasing program would gain new knowledge about Mazda electric drive technologies and the use of electric vehicles.
Mazda believes that the internal combustion engine having medium term the largest volume distribution in the automotive industry. The company from Hiroshima will therefore continue to work consistently on the optimization of the engine. At the same time Mazda will promote the development of various environmentally friendly technologies of the future.
