The traditional piston engine ... small sports car from the company that makes the beloved MX-5, the car is gorgeous, not to mention it could also represent a paradigm shift in the utility of ...

However, due to the design of the rotary engine, there is no way to keep the oil lubricating the seals out of the combustion chamber. Mazda engines include an injector pump which pushes small ...

To make matters worse, rotary engines need their rotor chambers to be lubricated with oil, and even with precise injection of very small amounts to keep the rotors from damaging the chamber walls ...

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 ...

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.

Its launch marked Mazda's first rotary engine offering since it discontinued the Mazda RX-8 in 2012. To be precise, however, the MX-30 Skyactive R-EV uses its small, single-rotor rotary engine as ...

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.

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 ...

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.

or rotary, engine. If you ever wondered how these worked, why not print a model? That’s what [Engineering Explained] did. They printed a 1/3 scale model and made a video explaining and ...

That’s because the new rotary engine is being used in the MX-30 EV plug-in hybrid as a small and innovative range extender. As a result the new rotary engine is a much lower-output unit than ...