When Mazda's 6-cylinder engine based on the rear-drive platform failed to fit into the "Ma 6" model, everyone may have been disappointed, but at least Mazda has cashed in half. In addition, Mazda is still sticking to the rotor engine.
Recently, there is foreign media news that the Mazda brand will return with a new model of rotor engine, which will be loaded on the new Mazda MX-30 plug-in hybrid model, and the new car will be released no later than March next year, in the first region or in the North American market.
However, unlike in the past, the return of the rotor engine is not directly used to drive the vehicle, but the rotor engine is used as a range extender to achieve electric drive driving, which also means that this new car is actually a range extender electric vehicle.
As we all know, the rotor engine has always been a technology that Mazda prides itself on, and this engine has propelled the Mazda RX-3 and RX-7 to extraordinary status.
Since then, Mazda has ushered in a new rotor engine RX-8 in 2005, perhaps because the new car can not pass the policy emissions, and let the market find that the durability is not good, so that the model sales continue to decline, resulting in Mazda in 2012 to discontinue this model, and let the RX-8 become Mazda's last model equipped with a rotor engine.
Although the advantages of the rotor engine are obvious, can achieve small volume and high speed and power linearity, etc., but its disadvantages are also very obvious, not only the fuel consumption is large and its durability is also very poor, it is reported that the life expectancy is only 100,000 kilometers, which is undoubtedly fatal for car companies.
Looking back at the Mazda MX-30 model, in fact, the official has been listed in Europe before, and the new car is positioned as a small pure electric SUV, which is also Mazda's first pure electric model.
Stylistically, the MX-30 continues the consistent two-door design of the Mazda RX-8, matching the latest Mazda family design with a sneaky shape, making the new car exquisite but dynamic.
In terms of power, the current Mazda MX-30 has a fuel version and a pure electric version, of which the fuel version is equipped with a 24V micromix system, while the pure electric version is equipped with an e-SKYACTIV pure electric powertrain, but the cruising range is only 256km.
The arrival of a new car with a rotor engine as a range extender means that the new car will also become Mazda's new choice in the field of pure electricity, and will give it a more advantage over the current pure electric model.
Judging from the product positioning of Mazda MX-30, its competitors will include Honda Binzhi, Toyota C-HR and other models.
Honda Binzhi
Toyota C-HR
In fact, the shortcomings of the return of the rotor engine as a range extended range engine will still exist, but at least it proves Mazda's dedication to the rotor engine, and subsequent Mazda will also achieve optimization and improvement through more new technologies.
Although the return of the rotor engine is no longer traditional, it is at least an effort by Mazda to revive the rotor engine.
Netizen 1: Isn't buying a hybrid a quiet picture of fuel saving? How do I get the rotor in?
Netizen 2: To put it bluntly, it is a range extender, and there is no rotor engine after the RX-8!
Netizen 3: The biggest hidden danger of the rotor is still wear and stability, I hope to be durable
Netizen 4: Only Mazda insists on digging deep into the potential of the traditional internal combustion engine, Respect!
Netizen 5: Cold knowledge, in the 1960s, Tianjin Power Engine Factory once imitated a rotor engine.
Netizen 6: Do not drive only power generation, this also with rotors? Mazda fooled who!