The 10 kilowatt-hour battery gives the car a 19-mile electric range and a 2.6-gallon gas tank extends the range to 124 miles. The complete package of rotary, generator, power electronics and ...

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 ...

Mazda has said its rotary engine could be used as a range-extender in a future autonomous Toyota EV. Speaking to WardsAuto in Detroit, Mazda North America’s president and CEO, Masahiro Moro ...

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 ...