The brand recently announced that it established a new rotary development program that it believes will make breakthroughs on the journey to eco-friendly combustion engines. While details remain scant, Mazda could use the Wankel setup as an efficient range extender on future electric vehicles, but t...
Even today Mazda remains wedded to the technology, and plans to reintroduce a Wankel unit as a range-extender for the all-electric MX-30. What separates the R130 from every other Mazda rotary, however, was the fact that its 13A engine – developed specifically for it and only ever used by...
Deliveries in Germany are set to launch in March, while prices elsewhere have not yet been announced. The battery-electric SUV is expected to cost under £30,000 in the UK. Rumour also has it that a variant with a Wankel rotary engine will follow later as a range extender. The MX-30...
In order to stay independent in Japan, Mazda is mandated to create its own technological expertise. Following licensing of the Wankel rotary engine from German automaker NSU, Mazda perfects the engine for its Cosmo 110S luxury sports coupe. ...
After all, it’s the brand that made the Wankel rotary engine famous - known for its use in the RX-7 and RX-8, and recently revived as a range-extender for the MX-30. Even more recently, it’s offered the Skyactiv-X engine, a high-compressi...
Mazda ended production of the rotary engine in June 2011 when the RX-8 was discontinued. Now, it has returned to serve as a range extender in the MX-30.
The trademark filing shows the rounded-triangle shape of a Wankel rotary engine’s rotor inside of which is the letter “e”. According toHatena Blog, it falls under a group of eight trademarks the company filed, four of which pertain to something called “e-SKYACTIV R...
Mazdahas used this fantastically unconventional power source forall manner of different cars. Luxury coupes, tiny pick-up trucks, Le Mans-winning prototype racers - you name it, Mazda has lobbed a Wankel in it. And soon, a tiny single-rotor engine will be used as arange-extenderin theMX-...
well, pretty much the moment the carmaker announced the last Wankel-engined Mazda left showrooms. (Which, for the record, was the RX-8 in 2012.) The odds of such a vehicle coming to being have ebbed and flowed, but so far, it’s always felt more like a matter of possibility more ...
As the Mazda Cosmo was one of the marque’s first vehicles to feature a Wankel rotary engine, it would only make sense for thenew oneto feature a rotary engine also. Yi has envisioned the car to be a hybrid using a rotary as a range extender. ...