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.

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.

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Wankel rotary engines, typically but not exclusively found in Mazdas, certainly lean on the "quirkier" side of modern powertrain systems, made quirkier because most rotary-powered cars on the road ...

The rotary engine, with its egg-like block and triangular rotor, is an oddball even among all the other oddball engine designs—sorry, three-cylinder, twin-turbo, camless Koenigsegg, ya basic ...

At the moment, the only modern sports car upholding this legacy is the MX-5 Miata ND, but not for much longer. The latest ...