{"id":10872,"date":"2017-10-17T11:32:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T11:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/mazda_rotary_engine_to_cease_electric-range_anxiety.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:30:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:30:17","slug":"mazda-rotary-engine-to-cease-electric-range-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/mazda-rotary-engine-to-cease-electric-range-anxiety.html","title":{"rendered":"Mazda Rotary Engine to Cease Electric-Range Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rotary or Wankel engine is an automotive marvel. It revs higher than an engine with cylinders and weighs far less. It allowed the last-generation Mazda RX-7 to perform more like a slot-car thanks to the light weight of the overall vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/rx-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2015\/12\/rx-7-thumb-500x275-14818.jpg\" alt=\"rx-7.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The RX-7 died out mainly because it was a fragile care and din&#8217;t last. It had aluminum doors and roof and falling acorns would dent it. We pity people who were in an accident with the car.<\/p>\n<p>The RX-8 was also rotary-powered, had back seats accessed to what the automotive industry terms &#8220;suicide doors.&#8221; For some reason, this car didn&#8217;t make it either. We can&#8217;t figure out why.&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"eye-rolling\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/mt-static\/plugins\/TinyMCE\/lib\/jscripts\/tiny_mce\/plugins\/emotions\/img\/eye-rolling.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"eye-rolling\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/josJhz8VS8A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Wankel is back at least that is what we keep hearing. Mazda will use a rotary engine to extend the range of its electric vehicles. We first&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/green\/mazda-to-bring-back-the-rotary-engine.html\">covered this<\/a>&nbsp;in December of 2015. The small, light engine is said to be perfect for charging on-board batteries.<\/p>\n<p>CNET reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/roadshow\/news\/mazda-will-revive-the-rotary-but-as-an-ev-range-extender\/?ftag=CAD13782fc&#038;bhid=18764182611055212304044615092141\">once again<\/a> what we reported in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>A typical family who typically makes short trips and occasionally makes a long one might have one electric vehicle and one gas-powered. If Mazda can pull this off, a family can have two electrics &#8211; one with a range extender for long trips.<\/p>\n<p>The BMW I-3 has a range-extender as well but it isn&#8217;t really gaining much traction compared to Tesla.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see if Mazda has more success with its RX-Vision below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/Mazda-RX-VISION.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2015\/12\/Mazda-RX-VISION-thumb-500x175-14816.jpg\" alt=\"Mazda-RX-VISION.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rotary or Wankel engine is an automotive marvel. It revs higher than an engine with cylinders and weighs far less. It allowed the last-generation Mazda RX-7 to perform more like a slot-car thanks to the light weight of the overall vehicle. The RX-7 died out mainly because it was a fragile care and din&#8217;t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1674,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11179,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10872\/revisions\/11179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}