Initiatives for Products

Reducing CO₂ during Driving

Daihatsu’s target for the immediate future is for all new vehicles sold in Japan to be electric vehicles including hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and battery electric vehicles (BEVs) by 2030. To that end, we are working hard to develop technology and build a sales and service system for widespread use. After achieving the target for 2030, we will increase the sales ratio of ZEVs (ZEVs; vehicles that do not produce any CO₂ or other emissions during operation) and carbon-neutral fuel vehicles. We are also promoting research and development of technology to reduce CO₂ emissions from fuel production by 2050, and have a vision of achieving carbon neutrality during driving.

FY2026 Global Target for Average New Vehicle CO₂ Emissions

Reducing CO₂ Relating to Materials and Parts

As the first step, the Daihatsu Group work to visualize CO₂ emissions from main parts by 2025, improve the accuracy of emissions calculations, create items that will lead to CO₂ reduction, and promote 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 envision as our vision.

CO₂ 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 SOUGEI, 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 Goissho, which integrates the pick-up and drop-off operations of multiple nursing care facilities in a region. We also launched Choisoko, an on-demand shared mobility service, in areas with limited means of transportation, in 2021. Considering the possibility that these type 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 and use it in future business development.

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