Mazda's rotary engine, discontinued in 2012 with the RX-8, is making a comeback in the MX-30 e-Skyactiv R-EV. The new engine is a compact 830 cm3 single-rotor generator, adapted to meet modern needs.

Mazda’s commitment to the rotary engine is central to the Iconic SP. While details are still vague about a production car, the concept featured a dual-rotor rotary engine working as a range ...

Rotary engines (also known as Wankel engines and Wankel rotary engines) are quite different from piston or "reciprocating" engines. One of the distinguishing features is that they don't need ...

Rather than using its rotary engine to power the vehicle directly, the MX-30 R-EV uses the engine to drive a generator. The electricity produced is then used to power an electric motor ...

Mazda Motor Corporation (Mazda) will accelerate its research and development of rotary engines (RE) that are adapted to the new era in its efforts to continue to deliver the joy of cars through ...

Apparently, Mazda was blown away by the world’s response, because it has announced it’s developing a rotary engine that could bring the concept to life. “I am very happy and deeply moved by ...

Most folks today credit Dr. Felix Wankel with inventing the modern rotary engine in the 1950s (with the DKM and KKM prototypes) that went on to become Mazda's iconic rotary engine. However ...

Rotary engines have an aura of cool. In games of Top Trumps, the V12 might have been king, but a rotary was a joker, a wild card. A lack of mainstream success no doubt contributes; there are ...