Mazda has not given up on the rotary engine but is repurposing it for modern electric vehicles. The Mazda MX-30 e-SKYACTIV R-EV plug-in hybrid comes with a 0.8-liter (830cc) rotary engine.

Mazda is notorious for putting rotary engines under the hood of its cars, but here are six models from other manufacturers ...

Part 1: The rotary engine’s origin story and how Mazda became synonymous with the unique combustion engine. From the June 2010 issue of Modified magazine.

Mazda's MX-30 PHEV is a more modern option, which uses a rotary engine as a range extender to charge the EV battery on the go. What do Apex seals do? CET72/Shutterstock.

This engine is the basis of the modern “Wankel” rotary engine. Engine operation. Piston powered engines, chiefly the Otto and Diesel cycle, are current kings of the internal combustion mountain.

The manufacturer says that it reduced the size and weight of a modern diesel engine by around 80%, which puts this small 42-pound motor on par with the size of a basketball.

That engine the planes used was just a circle of cylinders rotating. The modern rotary as we know it was developed by a guy named Felix Wankel, and his design was later adopted by a certain Hanns ...

Rebuilding a Wankel at 80,000-100,000 miles is typical, and earlier than most piston engine need such exhaustive work. Modern drivers are also most sensitive to the rotary’s other disadvantages ...

Building a diesel engine that does not use traditional pistons may seem odd, but in today's modern age of high efficiency, low emissions, and weight reduction, an engine with a nonconventional ...

It will launch a modern car with a rotary engine, however. The automaker said in October that battery-electric versions of its MX-30 crossover SUV will be available with a rotary range extender ...

Mazda on Friday used the 2023 Brussels auto show to present a modern vehicle fitted with a rotary engine. The engine, a compact single-rotor design displacing 0.83 liters, serves as a range ...