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.

4 Reasons Why The Rotary Engine Is Dead. The Wankel engine was last seen in a production car in the Mazda RX-8, and currently there are no rotary engines in production. Mazda may bring it back in ...

AIE is one of the rotary engine's biggest champions and has been advancing new rotaries via the latest manufacturing tools and techniques since 2012. Its latest release shows that Wankel engines ...

Felix Wankel’s rotary engine is an engineering marvel because of its simplicity. Rather than the conventional pistons, camshafts, valves, and lifters, his design has a roughly triangular-shaped ...

One of the distinguishing features is that they don't need valves to operate. That's to say, the Wankel rotary engine design doesn't have valves — but quite a few rotary engine designs have ...

Good news, everyone! Mazda is not only reassembling a dedicated team of engineers for rotary engine development, as we’ve reported earlier, but today it also announced its intention to expedite ...

While little about the rotary engine merits the word, in a "traditional" Wankel rotary, a triangle-shaped rotor turns within a chamber during its combustion cycle. Apex seals are fitted at the ...

Before it was popularized by Mazda, the rotary engine entered production with German automaker NSU (an Audi predecessor). The NSU Spider launched in 1964—three years before Mazda launched its ...