Mazda MX-30 R-EV revives the rotary

The battery capacity is half that of the full-electric model at 17.8 kWh. Mazda estimates 85 kilometers of range on the WLTP cycle, and we would expect about 50 miles, half what the electric version can do. That's not especially impressive, but it does seem that the gas engine will be able to let you go much further than the

Hanging off the side of the electric motor, and attached to a generator, is the first production rotary engine Mazda has built since 2012. It's called the 8C, and it has just a single rotor with a displacement of 830 cc. It has side intake and exhaust ports like the's Renesis engine, but it has direct fuel injection and an aluminum rotor housing. It makes 75 horsepower on its own, roughly twice what the i3's two-cylinder engine would make.

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