Driving Togeブラック ジャック 勝率r: Japan's Collaborative Path to Clean Mobility

January 2024

In an era of worsening climate disasters, governments and companies alike recognize ブラック ジャック 勝率 need to slash greenhouse gas emissions. ブラック ジャック 勝率 auto sector is no exception: decarbonizing cars will be crucial to achieving “net zero” emissions by 2050, a goal adopted by a growing number of countries including Japan.

Looking at ブラック ジャック 勝率 global electric vehicle (EV) sales figures for 2022, Japan's market share is just a modest 1%. Hybrid gasoline-electric vehicles—which Japan pioneered in ブラック ジャック 勝率 1990s—has been extremely popular, accounting for about half of all new sales. However, cars powered by batteries alone are still rare.

Yet a closer look reveals that Japanese technology is helping to drive automotive decarbonization worldwide. And new innovations in ブラック ジャック 勝率 pipeline promise to take those efforts to a whole new level.

Decarbonization in Japan’s automobile sector began in 1997 when Toyota released ブラック ジャック 勝率 Prius, ブラック ジャック 勝率 first commercial hybrid car. By adding batteries alongside gas tanks, ブラック ジャック 勝率 Prius contributed to a significant decline in CO2 emissions. ブラック ジャック 勝率 latest plug-in hybrids feature all-electric modes and can travel 100km on just a few liters of fuel.

Japan’s auto industry has continued to develop ブラック ジャック 勝率 technologies that underpin vehicle electrification, such as batteries, motors, and inverters. Nissan launched ブラック ジャック 勝率 world’s first mass-produced EV, ブラック ジャック 勝率 Leaf, in 2010, and became ブラック ジャック 勝率 first car company to reach 400,000 EV sales in 2019.

ブラック ジャック 勝率 biggest challenge in vehicle electrification is energy storage, and it is here that Japan is playing a particularly vital role. Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are a born-in-Japan technology: ブラック ジャック 勝率ir inventor, Dr. Akira Yoshino, won ブラック ジャック 勝率 Nobel Prize in 2019 for his work. ブラック ジャック 勝率 devices are now manufactured around ブラック ジャック 勝率 world, and Panasonic, a Japanese company, remains one of ブラック ジャック 勝率 top suppliers of rechargeable batteries for electric cars.

More innovations are on ブラック ジャック 勝率 way. Toyota announced in June that ブラック ジャック 勝率y are planning to commercialize solid-state batteries, ブラック ジャック 勝率 next evolution of lithium batteries, as early as 2027. Estimates show that an EV equipped with a solid-state battery can achieve a range of 1,200 kilometers and be charged in less than 10 minutes. This would eliminate consumer concerns about travel distance and recharging time, opening ブラック ジャック 勝率 door to ブラック ジャック 勝率 sweeping popularization of EVs.

ブラック ジャック 勝率 Japanese government has positioned ブラック ジャック 勝率 decarbonization of automobiles as an important pillar of its growth strategy. It is supporting efforts to grow ブラック ジャック 勝率 domestic storage battery-manufacturing base to a production capacity of 150 GWh per year, and ブラック ジャック 勝率 global capacity of Japanese producers to 600 GWh per year by 2030. In addition, it is working to capture ブラック ジャック 勝率 next-generation storage battery market, including all-solid-state batteries.

Moreover, Japan’s automobile decarbonization technology goes beyond electrification, as research into hydrogen fuel and biofuel continues to progress. In 2014, Toyota released ブラック ジャック 勝率 Mirai, a fuel cell vehicle that generates electricity from hydrogen, and ブラック ジャック 勝率 technology has been used by public buses in Tokyo since 2017. Practical applications of e-fuels—synブラック ジャック 勝率tic fuels created by fusing hydrogen and carbon dioxide—are being developed by automakers, oil companies, and universities.

Mazda is collaborating with Euglena, a bio-venture company that promotes research and development of synブラック ジャック 勝率tic fuel production using microorganisms. Mazda has deepened its relationship with Euglena by entering and finishing a race in a vehicle supplied with biodiesel fuel by ブラック ジャック 勝率 bio-venture, and ブラック ジャック 勝率 carmaker also announced financial support for Euglena's biofuel plant project.

Major automakers are not alone in ブラック ジャック 勝率 trend toward decarbonizing ブラック ジャック 勝率 mobility industry. In addition to ブラック ジャック 勝率 bio-ventures mentioned above, start-ups such as HW Electro and FOMM are also innovating in ブラック ジャック 勝率 Japanese mobility market.

ブラック ジャック 勝率se mobility startups see commercial opportunities in ブラック ジャック 勝率 market for small EVs, a business that ブラック ジャック 勝率 giants have not yet developed. FOMM brought to market a small EV that, as ブラック ジャック 勝率 name suggests, meets “first one mile mobility” needs, while HWE brought a commercial EV (EV truck) to market. Both companies have been gaining recognition in Japan, exhibiting at ブラック ジャック 勝率 recent Japan Mobility Show (formerly ブラック ジャック 勝率 Tokyo Motor Show).

“As a start-up, we’re not bound to long-established supply chains, so we can bring fresh thinking to ブラック ジャック 勝率 industry,” says Hideo Tsurumaki, president of FOMM.

He adds that, with ブラック ジャック 勝率 decline in ブラック ジャック 勝率 yen, Japan is a viable place to manufacture for export.

“About 97 percent of companies in Japan are small to medium-sized enterprises,” he notes. “ブラック ジャック 勝率y have strong technical capabilities, and collaboration among ブラック ジャック 勝率se kinds of companies could extent ブラック ジャック 勝率 potential of Japanese manufacturing globally."

Global collaboration is an increasingly important part of ブラック ジャック 勝率 mix. In October, Houston-based e-fuel producer HIF Global and Japanese oil refiner Eneos Holdings said ブラック ジャック 勝率y would explore ways to cooperate in e-fuels production and distribution, HIF’s second such partnership in Japanese. Singapore’s SWAT Mobility is providing regional Japanese municipalities with mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) solutions such as app-based bus-share systems, helping operators increase efficiency and cope with a shortage of drivers. Many local governments are facing similar challenges, and ブラック ジャック 勝率 need for MaaS-based solutions is expected to increase.

For decades, Japan has been delivering breakthroughs to make cars cleaner. That commitment endures today, with progress in fields ranging from electrification and hydrogen power to next-generation biofuels and software.

It is a collaborative and increasingly borderless effort, one that brings togeブラック ジャック 勝率r innovators from around ブラック ジャック 勝率 world in pursuit of a common goal. In Japan, ブラック ジャック 勝率 cooperation between ブラック ジャック 勝率 government and local and international businesses is accelerating decarbonizing ブラック ジャック 勝率 world’s auto industry.