A rotary may come, but it might not be what you're hoping for. Mazda debuted its rotary engine 50 years ago in the Cosmo Sport in part as a way to stand out from its larger Japanese competitors.

Mixed reports about Mazda's upcoming hybrid sports car contradict what we already know. Mazda's patents showed a very ...

CEO Scott Keogh said that an optional gas-powered range extender will be a small-displacement engine that will likely be sourced from within Scout’s parent company: Volkswagen Group. The engine ...

Future Scout EREV models promise to eliminate any range anxiety by using a small combustion engine to charge the ... the range-extender will be buried deep in the rear of the body-on-frame chassis ...

The company looking to utilize the rotary engine as a range extender in EVs. Mazda's first port of call was to develop such an engine for the 2023 MX-30 R-EV a compact SUV. Unlike Mazda models of ...

Mazda has been playing with the rotary range-extender idea for years. In the RE prototype, the engine was exclusively used to charge the lithium-ion batteries when they were running low ...

using a small Volkswagen Group engine so far behind the passengers that they won’t even notice it while it’s running. At CES 2025, Scout Motors CEO Scott Keogh said that a range extender wasn ...

That’s because the new rotary engine is being used in the MX-30 EV plug-in hybrid as a small and innovative range extender. As a result the new rotary engine is a much lower-output unit than ...

The combination of Mazda CEO's rotary R&D announcement plus the gorgeous rotary concept add up to a new 350 hp-plus sports car in the pipeline.