Isuzu Motors Limited just made its latest reveals at the 2025 Japan Mobility Show (JMS) under its theme, “Move the World, Envision a Colorful Future.” At their booth this year, their first world premiere was the Vehicle Carbon-Control Concept (VCCC). This vehicle demonstrates how commercial vehicles can be rugged and still align with carbon-neutrality goals.
Equipped with advanced sensors, telematics, and a modular powertrain architecture, this specific vehicle uses an innovative vertical frame known as the “Vertical Core.” The Vertical Core is a shared platform compatible with a wide range of configurations. This modular concept allows vehicles to be rearranged in units consisting of key components, enabling highly flexible and efficient operation.
Isuzu’s second highlight at JMS is the Multi-Fuel Engine, which shows Isuzu beyond just diesel. Carbon-neutrality is more than just going electric; it’s about a next-generation internal combustion engine that offers both ease of configuration and cost efficiency to attain carbon neutrality. Isuzu believes a multi-path approach is crucial, given the wide range of vehicle use and sizes.
The multi-fuel engine platform shares key components like the cylinder block and crankshaft, and with simple modifications to the fuel injection and ignition systems for the fuel type, the engine can use not only diesel but also carbon-neutral compatible fuels such as natural gas, hydrogen, biofuels, and synthetic fuels.
The third reveal was the Next-Generation Isuzu Giga, Isuzu’s heavy-duty truck has a long-overdue, newly designed cab exterior, now delivering higher payload, capacity, improved fuel efficiency, now equipped with Advanced Driver Assist Systems (ADAS), which includes pre-crash braking for turns, left-turn entrapment prevention braking, side collision mitigation, and a wheel detachment early-warning detection system. The Giga is a statement that Isuzu still leads in the commercial vehicle segment.
Also making its debut at the JMS is the ERGA EV Autonomous Driving Bus, currently under development. This bus is based on Japan’s first flat-floor city bus battery-electric vehicle (BEV), the ERGA EV, launched at JMS in 2023. This Autonomous Driving Bus will soon offer safe, stable driverless operation. Utilizing vehicle-integrated control technology, using a sensor suite of cameras, millimeter-wave radar, and LiDAR.
The ELF EV Garbage Truck was an interesting display. In line with the shift to carbon neutrality, this truck is based on the light-duty ELF EV (better known as the N-Series in the Philippines). It features Isuzu’s Power Take-Off (PTO) unit, which supplies power to the battery and auxiliary equipment. Performance is no different from Isuzu’s conventionally powered diesel ELF trucks, but is quiet due to its being an EV, and has zero emissions.
