According to the Nikkei business daily's Thursday report, Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp - one of the world's leader in hybrids - intends delivering core components for hybrid vehicles to Mazda Motor Corp and other smaller rivals.

The report, which has not cited any sources, said that the components to be supplied will be used in a hybrid vehicle that Mazda is scheduled to launch in 2013, for which it is aiming at a sales target of nearly 100,000 units per year. The components would include batteries, motors, and control units, made by group parts makers.

However, Toyota spokesman Paul Nolasco said that though the company considers it important to boost global hybrid sales, and would consider sharing its green technology with other automakers, "there has been no decision on a policy to offer hybrid systems to Mazda."

Meanwhile, Mazda Motor Corp, which lacks its own hybrid system, has said that though a key hybrid technology tie-up with Toyota would substantiate its standpoint of making more ecological gas-engine cars; its efforts to work out green technology of its own would remain unchanged.

Calling the Nikkei story "a reporter's speculation," Mazda clarified in a statement: "Nothing has been decided on tie-ups at this point."