Curtis Wright built airplane engines, Sachs produced small air ... performance parts like turbochargers will also negatively impact engine reliability. The Wankel rotary story isn’t completely ...

Firstly, there are far fewer moving parts ... matters worse, rotary engines need their rotor chambers to be lubricated with oil, and even with precise injection of very small amounts to keep ...

Both 787Bs were powered by 2.6-liter four-rotor engines that were detuned to 700 horsepower. Afterward, the FIA announced that rotary engines would no longer be allowed at Le Mans.

Small engine manufacturer LiquidPiston is developing a tiny, lightweight, super-efficient engine that functions a lot like Wankel rotary units. Despite that, LiquidPiston says the unit can deliver ...

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As a result, they are considered more efficient by some metrics and require fewer moving parts to function ... Skyactive R-EV uses its small, single-rotor rotary engine as a range extender ...

According to Davis, the rotary engine will continue to play a role in the company's products moving forward, with engineers applying the lessons learned through the SkyActiv program to the powerplant.

Since it looks like Mazda may very well revive the Wankel rotary engine as a range extender for electric cars, there's no better time to become reacquainted with the quirky internal-combustion engine.

One thing Mazda never managed to solve however, was the problem with fuel consumption, and although the latest generation of Renesis rotary engines were far more efficient than its predecessors ...

Although there was briefly a company called Rotary ... few moving parts and offers very smooth power transfer and high power to weight ratio. The downside, though, is that the engine deliberately ...

The latest version adds a rotary engine to its compact predecessor, with prices ranging from 4.2 million yen ($28,000) to 4.9 million yen after tax. The MX-30 Rotary-EV will arrive on the Japanese ...