The genius of the Wankel engine is that the process is happening for all three faces in parallel. In effect, the engine has pipelined the combustion process. It would be fair to say that a single ...

Traditional Wankel engines feature a triangular rotor in a peanut-shaped housing, which Alec identified as a significant limitation: “The long, skinny combustion ... is a slow process; it ...

Mazda is working on new engines. The brand is working with partners for electric drives and is developing a new combustion ...

Just about the only element a rotary engine shares with a traditional petrol unit is that it uses the same four stages – intake, compression, ignition and exhaust – but this process is not ...

Mazda's Wankel rotary engine has always been unique in the automotive landscape as a mass-produced internal combustion engine that eschews such unsightly items as pistons, valves and camshafts.

Although there was briefly a company called Rotary Rocket, the term is much better known as a nickname for the Mazda RX-7 — one of the few cars that used a Wankel, or rotary, engine. If you ever ...

The Wankel engine happens to run rather well on hydrogen and is not as susceptible to many of hydrogen's shortcomings as other internal combustion engines. The Japanese automaker has had hydrogen ...