Mazda revealed two concepts at the Japan Mobility Show 2025 that offer a peek at the brand’s potential future styling and the technology that may lie beneath. Mazda President and CEO Masahiro Moro said the automaker "envisions a future where the more kilometers you drive, the more you help reduce CO2."
The cars are called the Vision X-Coupe and Vision X-Compact, with the "X" pronounced as “cross."
The coupe, which is longer than the Mazda6 and actually has four doors, features a plug-in hybrid system with a two-rotor rotary engine, which can run on carbon-neutral fuel made from microalgae. It produces 503 horsepower and can travel up to 99 miles on electricity alone, which expands to nearly 500 miles with the combustion engine.
According to the automaker, as microalgae grow, they capture CO2 and store oil in their cells. Mazda can then extract that oil and refine it into carbon-neutral fuel. The company says it successfully produced over a liter of fuel from an 11,000-liter culture tank in about two weeks. The byproduct can then be used to make food products or organic fertilizer.
The automaker is also working on "Mazda Mobile Carbon Capture," which it says will pull CO2 directly from the exhaust. The tech will make its debut next month in a super endurance race with the Mazda 55.
The other concept, the Mazda Vision X-Compact, looks like the athletic version of the Mazda2. The X-Compact is "designed to deepen the bond between people and cars through the infusion of human sensory digital model and empathic AI" and includes the brand’s "Human Body Sensing Model."
