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Car Manufacturers 74 CITED SOURCES UPDATED 2026-07-04
BDS-1000 Score 82 /1000 E Tier E - Limited
Military ↗ 0.00 Digital ↗ 0.00 Economic ↗ 1.29 Political ↗ 0.15

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Mazda Motor Corporation - BDS-1000 Dossier

Document: 06-main-dossier.md Entity: Mazda Motor Corporation (Hiroshima, Japan; TSE: 7261) Audit basis: Military, Digital, Economic, Political domain audits (compiled 2026-06-21 to 2026-06-30) BRS Score: 82 - Tier E (Minimal)

Key Findings

  • Economic: Mazda’s sole documented Israel nexus is a 35-year arm’s-length wholesale relationship with independent exclusive importer Delek Motors Ltd, which has sold Mazda vehicles as the country’s top-selling brand for 15 consecutive years but books all retail revenue, profit, and tax itself.1
  • Political: Delek Motors’ indirect parent, Delek Group, has been listed in the OHCHR settlement-business database since 2020 over its separate Delek Israel Fuel subsidiary’s petrol stations in West Bank settlements and occupied East Jerusalem - an affiliate-level finding not attributable to Mazda Motor Corporation, which holds no equity in the importer chain.2
  • Digital: In February 2025, Israeli company Foretellix and MathWorks announced a pre-production ADAS/autonomous-driving simulation engagement with Mazda - the only confirmed Mazda-corporate technology relationship with an Israeli-domiciled firm identified in this audit.3
  • Not found: No military contract, dual-use vehicle programme, defence-prime supply relationship, or Who Profits/AFSC/OHCHR/UN listing names Mazda Motor Corporation itself; the 2001 Ford F350 IDF contract associated with Delek Motors ran through that importer’s separate Ford franchise, not Mazda.4

Target Profile

FieldDetail
Company NameMazda Motor Corporation
JurisdictionJapan (incorporated and headquartered in Hiroshima) 5
HeadquartersHiroshima, Japan 5
SectorAutomotive manufacturing (passenger vehicles, SUVs, light commercial vehicles) 5
OwnershipPublicly listed, Tokyo Stock Exchange (TYO: 7261); largest holder The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. (~17.7%, institutional custodian); Toyota Motor Corporation holds ~5.05% under a 2015 capital-and-technology alliance (Mazda holds ~0.25% of Toyota) - a minor cross-shareholding, not control 6
Key Executives / GovernanceNo public evidence identified of any named Mazda director, officer, or executive holding an Israeli government role, political affiliation, or documented position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 6
Israeli-Nexus SummaryCommercial-only: Mazda vehicles are exported at wholesale from Japan and sold in Israel exclusively through independent importer Delek Motors Ltd since 1991; no Mazda-corporate subsidiary, contract, or technology relationship with the Israeli state or its security services is documented, aside from one Israeli-vendor ADAS simulation partnership

Key Facts:

Executive Summary

Mazda Motor Corporation’s relationship to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories is, on the documentary record compiled across four domain audits, almost entirely mediated through a single arm’s-length commercial channel: Delek Motors Ltd, the company’s exclusive Israeli vehicle importer since 1991.1 Mazda-corporate manufactures no vehicles in Israel, operates no Israeli subsidiary or branch, and holds no equity stake in its importer; its economic exposure is limited to wholesale export sales booked in Japan, with all retail, distribution, and franchise activity - and any settlement-adjacent exposure arising from the importer’s corporate family - sitting one or two ownership layers away from Mazda itself.13

The strongest documented vector is economic, and even there the audits repeatedly draw a hard line between Mazda-corporate and its importer’s wider corporate family. Delek Motors’ parent, Delek Automotive Systems, is roughly one-third owned by Delek Group, an Israeli conglomerate that has been listed in the OHCHR settlement-business database since 2020 for its separate Delek Israel Fuel subsidiary’s petrol stations and convenience stores in West Bank settlements, occupied East Jerusalem, and the occupied Golan Heights, and for Delek Israel Fuel’s active IDF/Ministry of Defence vehicle-refuelling contract (initially ~$566 million, extended through at least 2025).24 Every audit is explicit that these findings attach to Delek Group’s fuel-retail arm, not to Delek Motors’ automotive franchise, and still less to Mazda Motor Corporation, which has no ownership interest in either.24 The one documented instance of a Mazda-badged vehicle appearing in an IDF procurement context - a 2001 contract for roughly 1,000 pickup trucks worth approximately $40 million, financed through US Foreign Military Financing - was in fact fulfilled through Delek Motors’ separate Ford franchise, using Ford F350s, not Mazda vehicles.4

The political and digital vectors are thin. Politically, no Mazda executive, lobbying arm, or corporate statement has taken any documented position on Israel/Palestine; the one historical utterance on record is a May 1991 comment by a Mazda spokesman that market entry to Israel would proceed “based on economic merit only,” made as the Arab League boycott collapsed.14 Digitally, the sole confirmed Israeli-vendor relationship is a February 2025 pre-production simulation partnership with Foretellix, an Israeli ADAS-testing firm, jointly announced with MathWorks - a development-tooling engagement that does not touch production vehicles sold to consumers, including those sold in Israel.3 A historically associated supplier relationship with Mobileye (Israeli-domiciled EyeQ chipsets) could not be confirmed as current for Mazda-brand production; Bosch, a German firm, is the identified forward-camera supplier.1516

What is not supported by the evidence is, on this record, more consequential than what is. No contract, tender, or procurement relationship links Mazda Motor Corporation to the IDF, the Israel Ministry of Defence, or any other Israeli security body. No dual-use, tactical, or mil-spec Mazda product line exists. No supply relationship connects Mazda to Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael, or any other Israeli defence prime, in contrast to documented relationships involving Ford, General Motors, and Toyota chassis platforms.4 No Israeli surveillance, biometric, or defence-sector software vendor appears in Mazda’s confirmed technology stack. Mazda is absent from the Who Profits database, the AFSC Investigate database, the OHCHR settlement-business list, and the UN Special Rapporteur’s July 2025 “economy of genocide” report and its named-company annex.41112

This evidentiary profile - a single, arm’s-length, 35-year-old commercial importer relationship; a downstream, several-layers-removed settlement finding attaching only to the importer’s unrelated corporate parent; one narrow pre-production technology engagement; and an absence of military, direct settlement, or state-political findings - produces the lowest scoring band in the BDS-1000 framework: BRS 82, Tier E (Minimal), driven by a Economic score of 1.29 against zero scores in Military and Digital.

Timeline of Relevant Events

DateEvent
Pre-1991Arab League secondary boycott prevents Japanese automakers, including Mazda, from selling in Israel.14
May 1991Mazda’s Los Angeles spokesman states that any decision to enter the Israeli market would be “based on economic merit only, without regard to boycott considerations,” as the boycott regime weakens.14
1991Delek Motors (Delek Automotive Systems) obtains the exclusive Mazda import concession for Israel.1
Early 1992First Mazda vehicles arrive in Israel under the Delek Motors concession.1
1999Delek Motors becomes exclusive Ford importer in Israel (separate franchise from Mazda).4
2001Delek Motors, in its Ford capacity, contracts to supply 1,000 Ford F350 pickups to the IDF ($40M, US FMF-financed; ~750 replacement vehicles, ~300 ambulances). No Mazda vehicles involved.4
By 2011Mazda has been Israel’s best-selling car brand for 15 consecutive years.7
2011An IDF tender for heavy-load pickup trucks (~NIS 750M) is expected to involve Delek Motors in its Ford capacity; outcome unconfirmed.4
February 2020Delek Group is included in the initial OHCHR settlement-business database release (112 companies) for Delek Israel Fuel’s West Bank/occupied-territory petrol stations.2
2020Delek Israel Fuel (with Sonol) wins an IDF/Ministry of Defence vehicle-refuelling tender, initially valued at ~$566 million over three years.4
January 2018Mazda signs the UN Global Compact.17
2021Mazda announces the “Co-Pilot Concept” driver-monitoring/handover system; no Israeli vendor named.18
August 2023Mazda formalises a corporate Human Rights Policy; contains no reference to Israel, Palestine, or occupied territories.19
September 2023Mozilla Foundation’s Privacy Not Included study gives Mazda (and all 25 major brands reviewed) a failing consumer-privacy grade.20
2023–2024Delek Israel Fuel’s IDF fuelling contract is extended/expanded (exercised option reportedly worth an additional ~£130M), remaining in effect through at least 2025.4
2023Mazda registers 13,762 new units in Israel, a 26.7% year-on-year decline.8
September 2024Mazda establishes an internal AI-transformation department in Hiroshima; no Israeli AI partner named.21
2024Mazda registers ~13,716 new units in Israel (6th place, ~0.5% further decline).9
February 2025Foretellix (Israel) and MathWorks jointly announce an ADAS/autonomous-driving simulation engagement with Mazda for pre-production development use.3
H1 2025Delek Motors’ Mazda deliveries fall ~28% year-on-year to 5,571 units; Q2 2025 alone falls ~40% to 1,601 units.10
June 2025Mazda joins the Japan Center for Engagement and Remedy on Business and Human Rights (JaCER), a general (non-Israel-specific) grievance mechanism.19
July 2025UN Special Rapporteur report A/HRC/59/23 (“From economy of occupation to economy of genocide”) is published; Mazda is not named.12

Corporate Overview

Mazda Motor Corporation is an independent Japanese automaker headquartered in Hiroshima and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, manufacturing vehicles at plants in Japan (Hiroshima, Hofu), Mexico (Salamanca), Thailand (AutoAlliance Thailand joint venture), the United States (Mazda Toyota Manufacturing, Huntsville, Alabama), China, Vietnam, and Malaysia.5 Its largest shareholder is The Master Trust Bank of Japan (~17.7%, an institutional/pension custodian); Toyota Motor Corporation holds a ~5.05% cross-shareholding under a 2015 capital-and-technology alliance, with Mazda holding ~0.25% of Toyota in return - a minor mutual stake that confers no control in either direction.6 No Israeli entity holds any directorship, management role, or material equity position in Mazda Motor Corporation.6

Mazda holds no directly-owned subsidiary, branch office, or sales entity in Israel. Its entire Israeli market presence is mediated through Delek Motors Ltd, a subsidiary of the independent, separately-listed Delek Automotive Systems Ltd (TASE: DLEA), which has held the exclusive Mazda import concession since 1991.1 Delek Motors also imports Ford, BMW, MINI, and NIO, and operates 21 showrooms across Israel including a flagship complex in Tel Aviv; a showroom is documented at Talpiot, Jerusalem, though the precise legal status of that specific parcel (pre-1967 commercial Talpiot versus the separate, post-1967 East Talpiot settlement neighbourhood) could not be definitively resolved from available open-source evidence.1 Delek Automotive Systems’ group-wide trailing-twelve-month revenue (late 2025) was approximately $1.67 billion across all its imported brands; these revenues, along with all retail profit and tax, accrue to the independent Israeli importer and are not repatriated to or booked by Mazda-corporate, whose receipts are limited to ex-factory wholesale prices recorded as Japanese export earnings.13

Delek Automotive Systems is approximately 32%-owned by Delek Group Ltd, an Israeli petroleum and holding conglomerate. Delek Group is corporately and operationally distinct from Delek Motors: its Delek Israel Fuel subsidiary operates petrol stations and convenience stores separately from the Mazda/Ford/BMW automotive franchise business, including sites in West Bank settlements (Giv’at Ze’ev, Alon Shvut, Ma’ale Adumim), occupied East Jerusalem, and the occupied Golan Heights, and holds a long-running IDF/Ministry of Defence fuelling contract.24 Delek Group has been listed in the OHCHR settlement-business database since its first 2020 release. Every audit underlying this dossier treats this as an affiliate-level finding attaching to Delek Group’s fuel-retail arm, not to Delek Motors’ automotive franchise and not to Mazda Motor Corporation, in which Delek Group holds no interest whatsoever.2

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

No public evidence identifies any contract, tender, framework agreement, or procurement relationship between Mazda Motor Corporation and the Israeli Ministry of Defence, the IDF, the Israel Prison Service, the Israel Border Police, or any other Israeli security body.4 The single Mazda-adjacent event found in the record - a 2001 supply of ~1,000 Ford F350 pickups (worth ~$40 million, US FMF-financed) to the IDF - was executed by Delek Motors in its separate Ford importer capacity, not its Mazda capacity; no Mazda-branded vehicle appears in any IDF supply contract.4 No Mazda tactical, ruggedised, or mil-spec vehicle variant exists for any market, and Japan’s Self-Defence Forces do not appear to operate Mazda-manufactured military vehicles.4 No supply relationship links Mazda to Israeli defence primes (Elbit Systems, IAI, Rafael, IMI), in contrast to documented Ford, GM, and Toyota chassis integrations into IDF and Elbit platforms.4 Delek Israel Fuel - a separate Delek Group subsidiary - holds a documented IDF/MOD vehicle-refuelling contract and settlement petrol stations, but this activity is unconnected to Mazda vehicles or Delek Motors.4

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Mazda’s product line is exclusively civilian, and no export licence, end-user certificate, or government review has ever addressed Mazda sales to an Israeli security end-user.4 No NGO database (Who Profits, AFSC Investigate), UN report (A/HRC/59/23), or OHCHR settlement listing names Mazda Motor Corporation.41112 Mazda’s historical wartime predecessor, Toyo Kogyo, manufactured rifles for the Imperial Japanese military, but transitioned fully to civilian production after 1945 - a matter of decades-old corporate history with no bearing on current operations.4 Toyota’s ~5% shareholding in Mazda is separately associated with Toyota-platform military vehicles (the MDT David APC) in IDF service, but no source treats this minority cross-shareholding as establishing corporate attribution to Mazda.4

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

Mazda’s connected-vehicle stack (Mazda Connect, MyMazda, factory telematics control units from model year 2025) is built on undisclosed wireless/telematics service providers and US-domiciled cloud infrastructure - Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop and Amazon Web Services.222324 The one confirmed Israeli-vendor relationship is a February 2025 partnership between Foretellix (Ramat Gan, Israel) and MathWorks, engaged by Mazda to accelerate autonomous-driving/ADAS development using pre-production simulation and verification tools; this does not extend to production, in-vehicle software shipped to consumers.3

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

No Israeli semiconductor, cloud, surveillance, or biometric vendor was identified in Mazda’s confirmed production stack. Mazda’s forward-sensing ADAS camera is supplied by Bosch (Germany); no current Mobileye (Israel) EyeQ chipset relationship could be confirmed for Mazda-brand production despite a historical association, and recent Mobileye design wins named in filings involve Volkswagen, Porsche, FAW, Polestar, Zeekr, and Mahindra, not Mazda.1516 Valens Semiconductor’s announced design wins are with unnamed “leading European OEMs,” not confirmed as Mazda.25 Argus Cyber Security, founded by Israeli intelligence-unit alumni, is now German-domiciled (Continental/PlaxidityX) and out of scope; Karamba Security’s relationship to Mazda is indirect, via Auto-ISAC sector membership, not a bilateral contract.2627 Searches for Mazda engagements with Innoviz, Otonomo, and Cognata returned no confirmed partnerships.28 The Foretellix engagement itself is explicitly a development/simulation-phase tool, not embedded in vehicles sold to consumers.3

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

Mazda-corporate’s entire economic exposure to Israel is wholesale export sales, at ex-factory prices booked in Japan, to independent importer Delek Motors Ltd, which has held the exclusive concession since 1991.1 Mazda was Israel’s best-selling car brand for 15 consecutive years; sales have since declined sharply amid the shift to Chinese EVs and post-October 2023 market disruption: 13,762 units in 2023 (−26.7%), ~13,716 in 2024 (−0.5%, 6th place), and 5,571 in H1 2025 (−28%, with Q2 2025 down ~40%).89107 Delek Automotive Systems’ group-wide trailing-twelve-month revenue was approximately $1.67 billion across all imported brands (Mazda, Ford, BMW, MINI, NIO, Dongfeng, VOYAH, BMW Motorrad); this revenue accrues to the independent importer, not Mazda-corporate, and no separately disclosed royalty or licence-fee stream from Israel to Mazda was identified.13 Delek Automotive Systems is ~32%-owned by Delek Group, which has been listed in the OHCHR settlement database since 2020 for its separate Delek Israel Fuel subsidiary’s West Bank and East Jerusalem petrol-station operations - an affiliate-level finding, not a Mazda-corporate investment or equity exposure.2

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

No Israeli-domiciled entity was identified as a supplier of parts, components, or raw materials to Mazda’s global supply chain (plants in Japan, Mexico, Thailand, the US, China, Vietnam, and Malaysia).5 Mazda holds no equity in, and receives no revenue attributable to, Delek Group’s settlement-linked fuel-retail operations. The Israeli market, at ~13,700 units in 2024, represents a small fraction of Mazda’s global sales volume of roughly 1.3 million units per year.29 No Israeli sovereign wealth fund, state entity, or institutional investor was identified as a material Mazda shareholder.6

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

No public evidence identifies any Mazda director, officer, or executive holding an Israeli government role or a documented political position on the conflict.6 No Mazda-corporate facility, subsidiary, or directly-owned entity operates in Israel, the occupied Palestinian territories, or the Golan Heights.6 The sole historical statement on record is the May 1991 remark that Israel market entry would proceed on “economic merit only.”14 In the United States, Mazda Motor of America maintains a registered federal lobbying presence (~$220,000 in the 2023 cycle, per OpenSecrets) centred on fuel-economy and tariff policy, with no Israel/Palestine issue areas recorded; in Japan, Mazda participates in the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, which has taken no identified position on Israel/Palestine.3031

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Mazda’s Human Rights Policy (formalised August 2023, grounded in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the UN Global Compact, which Mazda signed in January 2018) contains no reference to Israel, Palestine, occupied territories, or Gaza; its conflict-minerals due diligence is focused on DRC-region tantalum, tin, tungsten, and gold, with no identified Israel/Palestine dimension.1719 Mazda is not named on the official BDS Movement priority target list, and the Ethical Consumer Palestine boycott list includes no car brands; a check of a third boycott-tracking list (Witness) returned a server error and is treated as partially unverified rather than as a negative finding.323334 Aggregator and social-media boycott lists occasionally include Mazda on the basis of its Delek-mediated Israel sales and the importer’s indirect Delek Group connection; every audit treats this attribution of importer/affiliate conduct to Mazda-corporate as unverified, and no shareholder resolution, NGO campaign, or civil-society petition specifically targeting Mazda-corporate over Israel/Palestine was identified.2 Japan-Israel state-level cooperation (METI ministerial visits; the Japan-Israel Innovation Network, established 2017) exists at the government-to-government level, with no evidence placing Mazda-corporate inside these frameworks.35

Named Entities and Evidence Map

BDS-1000 Score (V4)

DomainIMPV-Domain Score
Military0.000.000.000.00
Digital0.000.000.000.00
Economic4.003.504.501.29
Political2.001.502.500.15

The score is driven entirely by Economic, reflecting the one substantiated vector on the record: a long-running but arm’s-length wholesale-export relationship to an independent Israeli importer, with a downstream, several-layers-removed settlement finding attaching only to that importer’s unrelated corporate parent. Political contributes a marginal residual from the same importer-affiliate proximity; Military and Digital register zero, as no military contract or Israeli defence/digital-surveillance relationship survived verification. Method: scale-free Impact × magnitude × proximity per domain, evidence-only and drawn exclusively from the four domain audits, human-vetted against the corpus-wide standard under which unverified or fabricated allegations are excluded or discounted rather than scored.

Methodology Note

End Notes

Footnotes

  1. https://www.delek-motors.co.il/en/manufacturers/mazda/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delek_Group ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11

  3. https://www.foretellix.com/foretellix-mathworks-mazda/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  4. https://whoprofits.org ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17 ↩18 ↩19 ↩20 ↩21 ↩22 ↩23 ↩24 ↩25

  5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mazda_facilities ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  6. https://coincodex.com/article/35905/who-owns-mazda/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  7. https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2011/08/best-selling-cars-around-the-globe-israel-mazdas-favorite-country/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  8. https://bestsellingcarsblog.com/2024/01/israel-full-year-2023-byd-atto-3-takes-control-3-chinese-models-in-top-7/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  9. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1358888/share-of-new-private-cars-in-israel-by-brand/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  10. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-veridis-salvages-delek-autos-results-as-mazda-sales-plunge-1001519324 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  11. https://investigate.afsc.org ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  12. https://www.ohchr.org ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  13. https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/165194-38 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  14. https://www.jta.org/archive/mazda-says-reports-it-will-sell-cars-to-israel-are-premature ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  15. https://mediathek-bosch-automotive.com/files/common/documents/1690/386071.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  16. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001910139/000110465924084598/tm2420463d1_ex99-1.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  17. https://newsroom.mazda.com/en/publicity/release/2018/201801/180131a.html ↩ ↩2

  18. https://newsroom.mazda.com/en/publicity/release/2021/202106/210617a.html ↩

  19. https://www.mazda.com/en/sustainability/social/human-rights/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  20. https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-every-car-brand-reviewed-by-mozilla-including-ford-volkswagen-and-toyota-flunks-privacy-test/ ↩

  21. https://www.just-auto.com/news/mazda-promotes-ai-use/ ↩

  22. https://www.mazdausa.com/site/privacy-connectedservices ↩

  23. https://cloudar.be/case-studies/mazda-high-availability-scalability-on-aws/ ↩ ↩2

  24. https://www.microsoft.com/en/customers/story/1687141067804704707-mazda-automotive-avd ↩ ↩2

  25. https://www.prnewswire.com/il/news-releases/valens-semiconductor-announces-three-automotive-design-wins-from-leading-european-oems-for-its-va7000-mipi-a-phy-chipsets-302250154.html ↩

  26. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argus_Cyber_Security ↩ ↩2

  27. https://www.aftermarketnews.com/karamba-security-selected-as-an-auto-isac-strategic-partner/ ↩ ↩2

  28. https://www.cognata.com/cognata-selected-by-innoviz-to-test-and-validate-lidar-sensor-suite/ ↩

  29. https://www.best-selling-cars.com/brands/2024-full-year-global-mazda-worldwide-car-sales-by-region-and-model/ ↩

  30. https://www.legistorm.com/organization/summary/62695/Mazda_Motor_of_America_Inc_.html ↩

  31. https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/mazda-motor-corp/summary?id=D000042709 ↩ ↩2

  32. https://bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-Boycott ↩

  33. https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/ethical-campaigns-boycotts/palestine-boycott-list ↩

  34. https://boycott.thewitness.news/categories/car ↩

  35. https://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2021/0310_001.html ↩