Just days after announcing its extended partnership with Toyota, Mazda has revealed its long-term vision to cut emissions.

The company wants to cut its entire "well-to-wheel” carbon dioxide emissions to 50 per cent of its 2010 level by 2030 and then down by 90 per cent by 2050.

To achieve that, the company has announced its “Sustainable Zoom-Zoom 2030” report, outlining its plan to implement its compression ignition technology, which will wear the Skyactiv-X badge, as well as electric cars as part of its tie-up with Toyota by 2019.

As reported earlier this week, Mazda has been working on Skyactiv-X for years and will be a pioneer in the market if it introduces the technology by 2019. In simple terms the technology doesn’t use a spark plug to ignite the fuel-air mixture inside the piston and instead uses the compression of the piston itself, something Mazda claims will greatly extend the life of petrol engines by lowering emissions. By utilising a supercharger Mazda claims the Skyactiv-X engines will be more efficient but still provide good driving performance.

“Compression ignition and a supercharger fitted to improve fuel economy together deliver unprecedented engine response and increase torque 10–30 per cent over the current Skyactiv-G gasoline engine,” claims the company

“Compression ignition makes possible a super lean burn that improves engine efficiency up to 20–30 per cent over the current Skyactiv-G, and from 35–45 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.”

Mazda believes using the Skyactiv-X engines will play a key role in cutting emissions in the “majority of cars worldwide” as the transition to zero emissions electric vehicles continues over medium term future.

However, thanks to its partnership with Toyota, Mazda will develop its own range of electric vehicles to launch in 2019 with Skyactiv-X for markets that have more interest in them.

But it revealed no details about its EV plans, aside from the launch date.

Mazda also announced as part of its 2030 plans to introduce autonomous driving technology as standard on all models by 2025.

The Japanese brand is also committed to evolving its current Kodo design language to grand heights over this next decade, saying it wants to: “raise vehicle design to the level of art that enriches the emotional lives of all who see it.”

Also included as part of the long-term plan is a reference to creating a new business model that would allow vehicle owners to connect with people without a car in sparsely populated areas to help them get around.

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