"Inside-out Wankel" rotary engine delivers 5X the power of a diesel

New Atlas ^ | April 04, 2023 | By Loz Blain

[Red Badger]

XTS-210 compared to a basketball

[Red Badger]

Diesel Knock List!.....................

[griswold3]

L8r

[Red Badger]

MORE INFO:

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/04/04/2640767/0/en/LiquidPiston-Introduces-XTS-210-a-25-Horsepower-Heavy-Fueled-Rotary-Engine-in-a-Basketball-Sized-Package.html

[ckilmer]

they have been working on a wankel rotary engine for almost 70 years.

Someday they get one that not only works but scales up in production.

Seems to me that the tools are now available to make that happen.

I have no clue as to whether this is the “One”.

[Steely Tom]

Looks like this approach may solve the seal problem.

[Yo-Yo]

I've seen a lot on LiquidPiston lately but all of it has been solicitations for investment opportunities.

Instead of a Peanut shaped cavity with a Dorito shaped rotary piston, LiquidPiston uses a Peanut shaped rotary piston and a Dorito shaped cavity. The supposed advantage will be the elimination of the high-wear Apex seals from the design.

[GreyFriar]

I remember that an automotive company produced a line of small pickup trucks powered by a Wankel engine. A guy in my battalion had one. Do you remember which company it might have been. The guy liked it.

[ptsal]

Bkmk

[GaltAdonis]

Anybody remember the Mazda rotary engines?
Mazda started making vehicles that used them in 1974 and stopped in 2012.

They had a rotary powered pickup truck and the RX-7 sports car.

[teeman8r]

wankel...

wankel...

bo bankel. banana fana fo fankel. fee fi mo mankel... wankel

[GaltAdonis]

See my post #10 this thread.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

I think it was Mazda

[Migraine]

The Mazda version could backfire! like no other.

[Boogieman]

[cyclotic]

Mazda RX-7 is the second stick shift car I ever drove.

[ansel12]

I bought a new 1972 RX-2 off the showroom floor while in the Army.

[Semper Vigilantis]

Piston engines go BOING BOING BOING, but a rotary engine goes Mmmmmmmmmmm... Mazda ad from the early 70s I believe.
I drove a customer’s rotary powered RX7(?) a few times in the mid 70s. I remember how fast it wound up and how high it would rev. A really fun drive.

[Revel]

Here is an interesting video on this:

This Engine could change EVERY INDUSTRY but..................

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Hn4EK9pkk

[Semper Vigilantis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHzeGEHWMjo