What followed were more than 200 victories for Mazda with rotary engines in the touring car racing series, and 13 failed attempts to win Le Mans.

ENGINE tech ditched a century ago could be making a comeback in next generation plug-in hybrids. Original rotary radial engines were scrapped because they were too dirty and guzzled fuel but profes… ...

This inside-out design solves most of the rotary engine’s problems LiquidPiston's designs will show up first in UAVs and generators.

Mazda 's next-generation rotary engine design may not have any spark plugs. Instead, Autocar reports that the upcoming 16X engine may use tiny, high-powered lasers to ignite the fuel/air mixture ...

Cross-section of the C 111 Wankel engine shows routing of intake air from air cleaner to the butterfly valve located in the rotor case casting.

EV range. Petrol freedom. And a rotary engine the size of a toaster. In this MW180 review, we take a deep dive into the Mazda MX-30 R-EV — a plug-in hybrid with a twist. It uses a compact rotary ...

Audi is toying with a seemingly perfect blend of electric drive and a rotary engine. Its A1 e-Tron extended-range concept car, being tested in various areas of the world, utilizes an electric ...

Mazda has revived the rotary engine for its new MX-30 e-Skyactiv R-EV, a plug-in hybrid model that uses the engine as a range extender generator. The MX-30 launched in 2020 as Mazda’s first mass ...

Mazda MX-30 launches in hybrid form, EV and rotary engine extender land in 2022 The rotary engine is set to return, but for now, Japan will get the MX-30 as a standard hybrid vehicle.

For years, Mazda’s sports cars and small sedans used a unique German-developed rotary or “Wankel” engine instead of a conventional piston-driven engine. These engines revved to the moon and ...

This rally-fied Mazda RX-8 features a four-rotor 20b engine that sends a claimed 370 horsepower to the rear wheels and the rear wheels alone.

Mazda has confirmed that at least one of its upcoming products will use a rotary engine as an EV range extender.