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What Killed The Rotary Engine?
What killed the rotary engine? Wankel engines have struggled to compete with piston cylinder engines, despite their many ...
WASHINGTON – LiquidPiston, supported by Army innovation programs, is poised to transform the U.S. Army’s capabilities as the ...
For the past 25 years, die-hard southern California Mazda fans have looked forward to an annual gathering designed ...
Mazda has promised, over multiple generations, that it has the skill to tame these issues, but it has been unsuccessful. The ...
Talk of radically different designs always leads to a single name – Wankel. The Wankel rotary engine, most notably used in automobiles by Mazda, has been around since the late 1950’s.
LONDON, England (CNN)-- The rotary engine is one of the most pleasing solutions in engineering history. Where conventional engines convert the lateral push and pull movement of pistons into ...
Rather, the 787B won through sheer luck, consistency, and reliability. The FIA set the rotary engine's ban in motion in 1989 when the organization planned to restrict manufacturers to 3.5-liter ...
Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...
We all know about opinions – everyone’s got one etcetera – but there’s perhaps nothing quite as divisive in the automotive world as the rotary engine. Aficionados will wax lyrical about ...
Mazda stunned the world with the RX-Vision concept last year and now we have the first details on its new rotary engine. Currently under development, Mazda’s next-generation rotary engine has ...
The latest version adds a rotary engine to its compact predecessor, with prices ranging from 4.2 million yen ($28,000) to 4.9 million yen after tax. The MX-30 Rotary-EV will arrive on the Japanese ...