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Originally Posted by Badhobz
makes no sense... if you wanted an IC engine for a range extender, why would you pick a gas guzzling rotary instead of your skyactive lineup which has amazing fuel efficiency. Yeah rotaries are cool, but not in this application.
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Reading into it a little, a rotary at
constant load is very efficient, which is why they're used in aircraft applications and in UAVs. When you use the rotary as the propulsion source itself in a car, that's when you have the inefficiency problems because of the varying loads from regular driving.