Mazda can have a great time without a committed EV, however, the Japanese car manufacturer significantly intensifies its electrification efforts. He has announced his goal of building a new production plant in Japan aimed exclusively to the production of EV batteries that will feed their first style in A. This resolution represents a main step in its electrification strategy, with the explained factory to supply battery modules For the first EV of the company designed on a platform of compromised electric vehicles.
The facility will be located in the city of Iwakuni, in Japan’s Yamaguchi prefecture, and will come with Panasonic power as the main supplier of its cylindrical battery modules. Once operational, the factory launches enough batteries to succeed at an annual production capacity of 10 GWh
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Cylindrical batteries will be used in a new style that drives Mazda’s EVs architecture. The corporate has established a date for the debut of the EV and has revealed any technical detail. The EV architecture will end until 2027.
Mazda promises this new foundation will deliver EVs with “advanced design, superior convenience, and extended driving ranges.”
Meanwhile, Mazda is not sitting absolutely in a slow movement in the EV space. The car manufacturer already offers fully electric models, adding the Mazda MX-30 crossover, which was first introduced in 2019 (although since then it has been interrupted in North America). Built in a changed edition of the Skyactiv platform, originally designed for combustion models, the MX -30 represents the initial steps of Mazda in electrification.
More recently, Mazda launched the EZ-6 in China, available in both fully electric and range-extender variants. The midsize sedan is built on Changan-sourced underpinnings, which it shares with the Deepal/Shenlan SL03. The same platform-sharing approach is expected for the production version of the Mazda Arata EV Concept, anticipated in 2025 as a sibling to the Deepal SL07 SUV.
For the future, Mazda is diving into a diversity of battery technologies beyond Panasonic’s home modules for its electric vehicles. The automaker develops higher-density lithium-ion batteries, to be placed in the PHEV and EV until 2030. Battery technology.