The Wankel rotary engine, most notably used in automobiles ... CC-BY-SA-3.0 by Y_tambe via Wikimedia Common The rotor is a triangle shape, but the sides bow out. Many rotors are also use cupped ...

The issue, as it has pretty much always been, is environmental. While the Wankel rotary engine does indeed make a lot of power in a small, lightweight package, it does so while burning lots of ...

of the Wankel rotary engine's triangular rotor. As the rotor spins on the engine's eccentric shaft, each of the triangle's three apexes maintains contact with the inside of the case's semi-oval ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Aliaksei Zholner built a tiny working rotary engine out of a piece of paper. The engine runs on compressed air. He was prompted to build the engine after reading a ...

Mark it down, auto enthusiasts.Mazda built its last rotary engine on Friday, June 22. By final, we mean the line that assembledRenesis engines for Mazda's RX-8 sports car was idled, and there are ...

The iconic rotary car engine, thought to have been consigned to the dustbin of impractical technology, is making a comeback in Japan from the very automaker that introduced the system as far back ...