WOOD-RIDGE, N.J., Nov. 28, 2001 — Ron McKeown, President and CEO of Rotary Power International, Inc. announced today that RPI is planning to proceed with the development of a hydrogen fueled ...

The rotary engine is known for a lot of good things. It’s compact and lightweight. It’s super smooth. It’s happy to rev to outrageous rpms. It even won the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Although development of a future Mazda rotary engine was shelved due to the global economic crisis, company engineers and executives still plan to launch a new rotary engine by 2017.

Cars and bikes already have wheels. But what if it behaved and traveled like a horse? That's exactly what the Japan-based ...

The engine can run as a dual fuel system, switching between hydrogen and gasoline. We can also use rotary engines to charge the battery as a range extender in an electric vehicle.

Based on what we know here in the States as the 2009 Mazda5 small minivan, the Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid uses hydrogen to fuel a rotary engine mated to a hybrid system with a lithium-ion battery ...

RX-8 Hydrogen RE --This is the latest in a series of hydrogen-fueled, rotary engine-powered RX-8s from Mazda. The hydrogen system is essentially the same as that shown at the 2004 Tokyo show.

Mazda officials said the latest hydrogen hybrid is an improvement over its previous hydrogen vehicle, leased since 2006, extending its run on a full tank of hydrogen from 62 miles to 124 miles.

Rotary engines — like the famous Wankel — are highly efficient ... propane, natural gas, ethanol, methanol or hydrogen. In short, pretty much any hydrocarbon-based biofuel you can get your ...

Mazda actually has a history of running its rotary engines on hydrogen - it even developed a hydrogen-burning RX-8 coupe way back in 2003, yet the manufacturer has not mentioned it as of late.