Its launch marked Mazda's first rotary engine offering since it discontinued the Mazda RX-8 in 2012. To be precise, however, the MX-30 Skyactive R-EV uses its small, single-rotor rotary engine as ...

Autoblog has discovered two new U.S. patents filed by Mazda, the first of which is for a small rotary engine that acts as a range extender in a plug-in hybrid EV. Back in 2013, we saw a Mazda2 ...

Thus rotary engines tend to have high specific ... and with a skinny 1218kg kerb weight it was endowed with 210bhp per ton. The small engine was mounted right up next to the bulkhead for a front ...

The rotary engine wasn't a new concept ... What's more, its dimensions were so small it could literally fit under the floor in the rear of the vehicle, thus providing not one, but two trunks ...

The latest version adds a rotary engine to its compact predecessor, with prices ranging from 4.2 million yen ($28,000) to 4.9 million yen after tax. The MX-30 Rotary-EV will arrive on the Japanese ...