Mazda keeps trying to make Wankel happen.

"bhtooefr" (bhtooefr) 09/20/2017 at 14:29 • Filed to: mazda, rotary, electric vehicles

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Apparently they’re !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , as well as a range-extended EV.

Never mind that the technology that can barely bring a Wankel into compliance would be better used making boingers better...

Chariotoflove > bhtooefr 09/20/2017 at 14:35

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And I love them for it.

McMike > bhtooefr 09/20/2017 at 14:38

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I don’t know why they keep rejecting this idea. These engines powered all the great WW1 and a lot of the WW2 aircraft.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > McMike 09/20/2017 at 14:52

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Hon hon hon hon hon.

-Gnome/Le-Rhone

My bird IS the word > bhtooefr 09/20/2017 at 15:07

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Comes out with revolutionary skyactiv engine, immediately goes back to wankel

bhtooefr > McMike 09/20/2017 at 15:11

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Wait, rotaries  in WW2?

Radials, yes, but rotaries?

McMike > bhtooefr 09/20/2017 at 15:17

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Yeah, that’s what I meant.

mazda616 > bhtooefr 09/20/2017 at 15:27

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I love Mazda (we own two of them) but even I can admit it’s time to move on from the rotary.

bhtooefr > McMike 09/20/2017 at 15:32

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I figured you meant rotaries (as in radials, except the crankcase spins and the crankshaft is fixed), which were very much a thing in WW1, but were completely dead by WW2.

McMike > bhtooefr 09/20/2017 at 15:43

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I know what a rotary is.

:)

AkursedX > McMike 09/20/2017 at 15:58

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I’d drive that!

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > bhtooefr 09/21/2017 at 20:44

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i wonder if given the very tiny size, and weight of a wankel if it would be a good match as an ev extender?