LiquidPiston is testing a 10-kW generator it's prototyped for the US military, which it claims is just a quarter of the size ...

This engine is the basis of the modern “Wankel” rotary engine. Piston powered engines, chiefly the Otto and Diesel cycle, are current kings of the internal combustion mountain. Piston powered ...

MZ took a license from NSU to use the Wankel engine to replace the two-stroke engine that powered its motorcycles at that time. In the first Wankel motorcycle, the rotary mill came mated to the ...

A patent from Porsche shows it is working on an innovative yet complex new engine based on a six-stroke principle ...

Wankel rotary engines use a triangular rotor spinning in ... As the rotor advances through the combustion cycle, the mixture ...

var digg_url = 'https://digg.com/hardware/Delorean_with_a_300hp_3_rotor_Wankel_engine'; In the late sixties and early seventies, many car companies were enamored with ...

Allied Market Research published a report, titled, "Wankel Engines Market by Type (Water Cooled and Air Cooled), and Application (Automotive and Aerospace): Global Opportunity Analysis and ...

In a rotary engine the typical Otto cycle takes place in an oval-shaped ... The C111-I of 1969 had a three-rotor Wankel engine with 276bhp, while the C111-II of 1970 featured a four-rotor engine ...

Although there was briefly a company called Rotary Rocket, the term is much better known as a nickname for the Mazda RX-7 — one of the few cars that used a Wankel, or rotary, engine. If you ever ...

FEV has built an experimental range extended electric version of the Fiat 500 that uses a small Wankel rotary engine as the APU. The Wankel has a number of potential advantages, including much ...

You may have heard your car has a four-stroke engine, but you're not sure what that means. Why are there four? And what is a stroke, anyway? A modern gas engine most commonly uses pistons and a ...