Suzuki Motor Corporation has announced its Technology Strategy 2025, a comprehensive roadmap for the next decade aimed at addressing environmental challenges, advancing carbon neutrality, and redefining mobility under its new corporate vision “Team Suzuki as infrastructure mobility closely connected to daily life.”
The strategy, unveiled following Suzuki’s mid-term management plan, expands the company’s traditional “3Gen” philosophy (Actual Place, Actual Thing, Actual Situation) into “3Gen・2Gen,” adding Fundamental Principle and Fundamental Rule. Built on the core ideas of “Minimizing Energy” and “Maximizing Essential Value”, the company promises innovations under the banner of “Right x Light Mobile Tech.”
Key initiatives include:
- Lightweight and Safe Vehicle Bodies: Suzuki’s HEARTECT platform will be further evolved, with an ambitious 100 kg vehicle weight reduction target. Cross-division collaboration has already mapped an 80 kg reduction path while ensuring safety and performance.
- Efficient ICE and CNF Technologies: The “Super Ene-Charge” hybrid system and high-efficiency engine development remain central, alongside progress in carbon-neutral fuels. India saw the launch of the GIXXER SF 250 FFV this year, with flexible-fuel automobiles to follow.
- Battery-Lean BEVs/HEVs: Suzuki’s first all-electric SUV, the e VITARA, showcases compact, efficient batteries and motors, embodying the principle of “Smaller, Fewer, Lighter, Shorter, Beauty.” A global rollout of the e-ACCESS electric scooter is also planned.
- SDV Right: The software-defined vehicle approach ensures “just-right” electrical components, debuting with the e VITARA.
- Recycling and Sustainability: From easy-to-disassemble designs to recycled plastics, Suzuki is embedding circularity into its future models.
Beyond product innovation, Suzuki is deepening its sustainability agenda. Its Team Suzuki CN Challenge raced with a motorcycle powered by 100% sustainable fuel, while its biogas business, backed by UNIDO, is preparing to fuel India’s vast CNG fleet from 2025. At home, the Suzuki Smart Factory initiative has already reduced energy use in its new Kosai Plant paint facility.
“With Technology Strategy 2025, Suzuki aims to harmonize environmental responsibility with everyday mobility, creating value that is just-right for people and society,” the company stated.
