In the late 1960s, a Japanese automaker took a bold leap with an unconventional engine that defied traditional design.

Remember rotary engines? The Felix Wankel-developed (stop tittering at the back) rotating engine design as flirted most famously with by the phenomenally fast JPS Norton racers, not to mention the ...

If there's one thing forever associated with the Wankel rotary engine, it's Mazda. Powering production vehicles from the Cosmo's launch in May 1967 to the last RX-8 leaving the plant in June 2012 ...

Mazda wasn’t the first to experiment with rotary engines, but they’re the automaker that perfected the technology and earned it a place in automotive history. Also known as the Wankel engine ...

Abstract: We propose a new Q-learning-based air-fuel ratio (AFR) controller for a Wankel rotary engine. We first present a mean-value engine model (MVEM) that is modified based on the rotary engine ...

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2017 marks fifty years since Mazda produced its first Wankel rotary ... balance as all rotary-engined cars. Mazda’s example also features a few tweaks, not least a later 12A engine from an ...

But nitro is an oxygen-rich compound that requires less air to burn, so the engine can consume more of it, thereby producing greater power. The 58 nozzles in the intake tract are always open ...

Powertrain engineering firm AVL has built a prototype Mini with an ER-EV powertrain that uses a 254 cc single-rotor Wankel to produce 15 kilowatts at 5,000 rpm or 25 kW at 7,000 rpm.