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 ...
However, the only major manufacturer still working on Wankel engines for cars is Mazda. The RX series of sports cars has been synonymous with Wankel rotary engines for decades. The last model was ...
and while there’s been talk of a rotary engine being used as a range extender for electric vehicles by several manufacturers (including, unsurprisingly, Mazda) as yet there haven’t been any ...
“The history of rotary engine development represents Mazda’s history itself.” Mazda became the first auto manufacturer in the world to mass-produce rotary engines in the 1960s. Problems ...
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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.
That’s because Mazda is the only mainstream car manufacturer to put rotary engines into mass production, using them to power some of its most iconic cars; namely the Mazda Cosmo, RX-7 and RX-8 ...