Mazda have improved fuel efficiency substantially based on the Sustainable Zoom-Zoom plan that we announced Mazda’s long-term vision of technology development in 2007.
This approach aims to effectively reduce total CO2 emissions with cars that offer driving pleasure and excellent environmental and safety performance to all our customers.
Consequently, MAZDA adopted Building Block Strategy that is prioritizing improvement of the base technologies such as improving the powertrain efficiency that are responsible for the core performance of our cars while gradually introducing electric devices such as regenerative braking, hybrid and other systems.
As the second step of this approach, Mazda has developed a new regenerative braking system called i-ELOOP that recover electricity from the kinetic energy during deceleration and reuse the electricity for a vehicle to move.
This system is constituted a variable voltage alternator up to 5kW, a EDLC up to 25V for charging generated electricity and a step-down DCDC convertor for components of 12.8V for recovering more electricity . MAZDA launched i-ELOOP to new mazda6 at the beginning, and will launch it in the other car models.
In the future, MAZDA will continuously improve i-ELOOP that is better fuel efficiency and more reasonable.
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