Mazda will use Tesla’s North American Charging Usual (NACS) connector for long term EVs, however continues to be making an investment in construction of a brand new technology of its signature rotary engines.

The automaker introduced Tuesday that it will undertake the NACS connector for EVs introduced in North The usa from 2025 onward, and can give consumers get entry to to the Tesla Supercharger community. Mazda’s North American EV plans are obscure, however a 2023 file indicated the automaker used to be making ready two EVs for North The usa, and would possibly construct long term EVs in Mexico.

Only some days previous, Mazda president Katsuhiro Mogo introduced on the 2024 Tokyo Auto Salon that the automaker would restart rotary engine construction, launching a brand new construction workforce Feb. 1, Jap newsletter Car Media Reaction reported.

Rotary engine

Sports activities vehicles just like the RX-7 have made the title Mazda synonymous with Wankel rotary engines, which use a triangular spinning rotor as an alternative of pistons to harness the power of combustion. On the other hand, Mazda ended manufacturing of typical rotary engines in 2012.

Since then, the one rotary engine introduced by way of Mazda has been a single-rotor fluctuate extender in a model of the MX-30 crossover—which has now been reduce from the U.S. lineup.

Different rotary-engine construction had led to 2018, in keeping with the file, which indicated that sure reaction to the Mazda Iconic SP rotary-engined hybrid sports activities automotive idea unveiled final October could have been an element within the determination to create a brand new rotary-engine construction workforce.

Mazda Iconic SP idea

The twin bulletins of NACS adoption and rotary-engine construction are conventional of the combined indicators popping out of Mazda for the previous few years. In 2022, the automaker stated it used to be concentrated on 40% EV gross sales by way of 2030, on a world scale. However final 12 months Mazda’s U.S. boss stated longer-range EVs are not the long run.

So most likely Mazda’s long term plans come with shorter-range EVs bought along internal-combustion vehicles—with most likely a few of the ones rotary-powered.