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Mazda to Buy Toyota Hybrid Systems To Use With Its New Engines
Mazda has only ever sold one hybrid electric vehicle in the U.S. and that was the very limited production Tribute crossover. And if you didn't live in California, you were pretty much out of luck if you wanted one.
With Ford's divestiture of Mazda, the Hiroshima, Japan-based company was free to shop around for a supplier of hybrid componentry. No surprise, it chose the heaviest hitter in the hybrid game, Toyota as its supplier. Mazda becomes the second major Japanese car company, along with Nissan, to buy its way into the hybrid game, using Toyota's Hybrid Synergy Drive system.
A relative pipsqueak in multi-national car making, Mazda could not devote the resources to developing its own system. Instead, Mazda has focused its energy on its Sky line of gas and diesel engines and automatic transmission. The so-called Sky G line of engines, which Mazda unveiled at last fall's Tokyo Auto Show, are a line of fuel efficient direct-injection four cylinder engines ranging from 1.3-to-2.0-liters that will go on sale in Japan next year and spread to other markets shortly thereafter. The company also previewed the Sky D line of efficient diesel four cylinder engines. We recently drove a diesel-powered CX-7 in Switzerland. While it was powered by the diesel currently available in Europe, not the new more-efficient Sky D, it suggests Mazda is contemplating bringing diesel engines to the U.S. once the new generation arrives.
The new engines, the 6-speed automatic Sky transmission, Toyota-sourced hybrid system and Mazda's own weight-saving initiatives and start-stop technology show that the little company is taking a suite approach to meet its goal of improving the fuel economy of Mazda vehicle sold globally by 30 percent by 2015, compared to 2008 levels.
According to the article in the Green Car Advisor, the reason Mazda chose Toyota was because:
[Mazda Executive Vice President Masaharu Yamaki said at a press conference that the decision to use Toyota's system as opposed to Ford's was because demand for hybrid cars is quickly growing in the Japanese market, sparked by government buying incentives and Toyota's new Prius and Honda Motor Co.'s Insight hybrid car, both launched last year.
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