Initiatives for Products

Reducing CO₂ Emissions During Driving

At the appropriate timing in the future, Daihatsu will transition new vehicles sold in Japan to electric vehicles including hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and battery electric vehicles (BEVs). As preparation for that, we are working hard to develop technology and build a sales and service system for widespread use. In addition to continuing to electrification of vehicles, we are also considering zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs; vehicles that do not produce any CO₂ or other emissions during operation) and carbon-neutral fuel vehicles.
Through these initiatives, we are pursuing our vision of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.

Reducing CO₂ Relating to Materials and Parts

As the first step, the Daihatsu Group works to visualize CO₂ emissions from main parts, improves the accuracy of emissions calculations, creates items that will lead to CO₂ emissions reductions, and promotes systematization of management methods. After that, as the second step, we will deploy the knowledge and systems established for all vehicles, and in 2050, as the third step, we will achieve carbon neutrality in the vehicle life cycle. This is what we consider our vision.

CO₂ Emission Reductions in Conjunction with the Creation of New Mobility Services

Daihatsu is developing new mobility services that will lead to solutions to social problems that local communities are facing including low birth rates, aging populations, and economic revitalization. Within these efforts, we are focusing on the social welfare and nursing care fields and currently providing services such as RAKUPITA SOUGEI¹, a mobility as a service (MaaS) program that provides support to adult daycare facilities by raising the efficiency of pick-up and drop-off operations, and Goissho², which integrates the pick-up and drop-off operations of multiple nursing care facilities in a region. Additionally, we have operated the on-demand shared mobility service “Choisoko³,” which provides transport services to areas with poor public transport, since 2021. Considering the possibility that these types of mobility services can improve transportation efficiency and reduce vehicle ownership, leading to reduced environment load, our policy is to achieve the visualization of CO₂ emissions and use it in future business development.

Achieving Both Solutions to Local Social Problems and CO₂ Reductions at the Same Time