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5 months ago 0 points
If the hybrid is set up so the internal combustion engine only fires up occasionally, the Wankel might even hit the same odo figures as a piston engine before requiring a costly rebuild.
It's nice to see that Mazda finally considered a way to make the rotary as good as a piston engine, by just adding a massive amount of complexity and sacrificing its only benefit, the small size of the powerplant.
Hopefully this one won't need an air pump in the exhaust to fool emissions testers into thinking the car isn't destroying the environment faster than a piston engine....if we ignore how bad for the environment the batteries inevitably will be.