THE ROTARY ENGINE IS COMING BACK. Okay, so it's just a range extender. But we'll take all the Wankel we can get 🥳
Credit to Mazda, it doesn’t exactly follow the crowd. Its ‘multi-solution’ approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions has so far given us everything from 3.3-litre, straight-six diesels to, with every variation of hybrid and EV in between. Now it’s doing something entirely new, a move that’s been heavily previewed for a long time in fact: it’s building a rotary-powered range-extender hybrid.
Housed inside its current MX-30, the new model will resurrect technology not seen on a Mazda since the RX-8 went out of production in 2012. Great news for the MX-30, at least, which has been hamstrung since launch by meagre range. The introduction of an electric generator supplied by a rotary powerplant will undoubtedly improve that situation.
Full details are expected on Friday, when the range extender makes its debut at the Brussels Motor Show. For the moment, Mazda has confirmed little more than the existence of a ‘unique plug-in hybrid powertrain’, and that’ll be on sale in the spring. The MX-30 may not be the most PHey of small cars out there, but the reintroduction of rotary power - even in a range extender application - is nothing if not interesting. Expect to learn more by the end of the week.
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