Mazda becomes the latest Japanese manufacturer to pool with a Chinese OEM, while continuing in the Tesla pool in parallel

Updated 27.10.2025 15:48 following further information from Mazda Europe

Following on from Nissan forming a joint CO2 regulatory pool with BYD earlier this month, according to official European Commission data, Japan's Mazda has formed a joint pool with China's Changan for 2025, and more precisely Changan Mazda Automobile, the manufacturer of the Mazda 6e .

Significantly however, Mazda Motor Corporation (MC) continue to pool with Tesla during 2025 while Mazda Motor Logistics Europe (MLE) will pool with Changan Mazda Automobile, marking the distinction.

Mazda Motor Logistics Europe (MLE) – a distinct, manufacturer-registered entity within the European Union – and the manufacturer of Mazda3 and the new CX-5 that will be launched later this year – will meanwhile pool with Changan Mazda Automobile, the European Mazda office confirmed to us.

The Tesla pool also accommodates the likes of Toyota, Ford, Stellantis, Honda and Suzuki.

This unconventional split into two sperate pools could suggest that Tesla is struggling to achieve enough regional new passenger car registrations volume during 2025 to accommodate further OEMs. 

According to our data, which includes the UK and Switzerland, focusing on Western Europe, Tesla's 2025 new passenger car registrations with just one quarter to go are trailing equivalent period previous year levels by 29%.

CO2 targets are sharpened by 15% during 2025 over the previous half decade period, with an average fleet weight-based target of 93.6g/km (WLTP) being the goal up to the end of 2029 although adjustment mechanisms dilute that somewhat, alongside the first three years now being measured as a three year average, which was agreed on as part of the first automotive dialogue between stakeholders and the EU earlier this year.

Volvo Cars gave a quantifiable indication of those potential tailwinds for CO2 overachievers, with quarterly income from regulatory credits hovering at around €70m. Volvo will accommodate Mercedes-Benz as part of a wider Geely-holding linked pool during 2025.

Mazda is currently offering only one BEV model – the Chinese-made Mazda 6e, developed by the Chinese joint venture Changan Mazda Automobile. Given it is shipped from China it is impacted by the anti-subsidy tariff element which was introduced at the end of 2024, penalising Chinese-made BEVs entering the EU.

The Hiroshima-based company previously also offered the MX-30 as a BEV, but is now more reliant on its two PHEV models, the CX-60 and CX-80, to help meet CO2 compliance.

According to our own database covering Western Europe (inc. the UK and Switzerland), Mazda's BEV penetration-mix reached just 2% of its total volumes so far this year, although if PHEVs are added, it inflated the plug-in mix to 15% of its total January-September new regional registrations.

Changan have only just begun their European debut during Q4 2025, with full-year volumes expected to remain muted before a full market entrance from 2026.

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Source: Schmidt Automotive Research 

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*Western Europe 18 Markets: EU Member States prior to the 2004 enlargement plus EFTA markets Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, plus UK