If it was that easy we would all be driving vane engines as the idea
is probably 200 years old.

Dennis Hawkins wrote:

I could say the same thing about Wankel engines.  Anybody that
knows how a Wankel engine works will tell you that its far
superior to piston engines in just about every way.  Yet,
Detroit seems to have an allergy to them.  Actually, GM tried to
make a better Wankel and failed.  Sour grapes maybe.

Detroit is a complicated bunch actually.  They aren't interested
in superior technology, they are interested in superior sales.
Engines that don't go bad mean that they won't be selling parts
to those engines.  The GM EV1 was unarguably the most
technologically advanced electric car ever built.  They refused
to sell them - only lease, and then only to people in two
states.  Not long ago, they scrapped the EV1 model claiming that
after spending millions on R&D, nobody bought one.  Ford had
another electric car, but they scrapped it a year before it went
into production.  They actually used the same argument - Nobody
was buying them.

Dennis.

Dennis Hawkins (n4mwd@amsat.org)

Saying the same thing about a Wankel engine is a philosophical argument that
ignores the principals of physics. The devil is in the details.

Paul Lamar
 
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