In our latest episode of Lexicon, we sat down with Alec Shkolnik, co-founder and CEO of LiquidPiston, to explore how revolutionary engine designs reshape power generation. Alec shared his journey, the ...

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Through the history of internal combustion engines, there has been plenty of evolution, but few revolutions. Talk of radically different designs always leads to a single name – Wankel.

It sounds more like an old-school radial aircraft engine than anything that should power an automobile of any kind.

Felix Wankel, a German engineer, created the Wankel engine. Compared to the standard engine configuration, the Wankel engine was typically lighter and had a smaller form factor. Because the rotors ...

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As a result, very few GS Birotors survive today. The C111-I of 1969 had a three-rotor Wankel engine with 276bhp, while the C111-II of 1970 featured a four-rotor engine with 345bhp, giving them top ...

The issue, as it has pretty much always been, is environmental. While the Wankel rotary engine does indeed make a lot of power in a small, lightweight package, it does so while burning lots of ...

Although there was briefly a company called Rotary Rocket, the term is much better known as a nickname for the Mazda RX-7 — one of the few cars that used a Wankel, or rotary, engine. If you ever ...

NSU unveiled the Ro 80 at the 1967 Frankfurt Motor Show, and Car Magazine praised its sleek design and named the vehicle its Car of the Year. Car’s editors noted that the Wankel engine’s ...

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