The Mazda Motor Corporation has unveiled its vision for the future called "Sustainable Zoom-Zoom 2030," a long-term vision for technology development.

As part of the new technology to achieve its vision, the company disclosed plans to introduce a next-generation engine called SKYACTIV-X in 2019. SKYACTIV-X will be the world's first commercial petrol engine to use compression ignition.

Under the original "Sustainable Zoom-Zoom" vision announced in 2007, the company says it has striven to offer both driving pleasure and outstanding environmental and safety performance. In light of the rapid changes taking place in the automotive industry, the new vision takes a longer-term perspective and sets out how Mazda will use driving pleasure, the fundamental appeal of the automobile, to help solve issues facing people, the earth and society.

The vision includes a plan to expand measures for carbon dioxide reduction from a "well-to-wheel" perspective, considering emissions over the vehicle's entire life cycle. The aim is to reduce the corporate average "well-to-wheel" carbon dioxide emissions to 50 percent of 2010 levels by 2030, and achieve a 90-percent reduction by 2050.

In line with this policy Mazda plans to continue efforts to perfect the internal combustion engine, which it says will help power the majority of cars worldwide for many years to come and can therefore make the greatest contribution to reducing carbon dioxide emissions, and combine the results with effective electrification technologies.

From 2019 Mazda will start introducing electric vehicles and other electric drive technologies in regions that use a high ratio of clean energy for power generation or restrict certain vehicles to reduce air pollution.

The vision also includes a proactive vehicle safety philosophy. The company says it will begin testing of autonomous driving technologies currently being developed in line with Mazda's human-centered Mazda Co-Pilot Concept in 2020, aiming to make the system standard on all models by 2025.