While Mazda is cautiously considering an all-electric MX-5, the brand confirmed that it'll stay close to its low-weight roots
Mazda has some big plans for the Japan Mobility Show including the unveiling of a new MX-5 concept. While we've surmised that it might be an electric version, a Mazda executive just gave us a lot more info about the future of the production model. The long and the short is that the MX-5 is going electric but not likely anytime soon. Speaking to Top Gear, powertrain development boss Kato Matsue laid out some of the discussions that the team is having internally.
By 2030 all our products will have some electrification. So that means the sports car is not outside of that scope. But I can’t say exactly when we’ll introduce a battery on the MX-5 at this moment, he said. The big thing holding the team back appears to be the one big problem that many EVs have: weight. “Thinking about our development duration , seven years is a short time,” says Matsue. “I don’t expect power density to become two or three times compared to the current power density.
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