The 2009 Mazda 5 Hydrogen Rotary Hybrid
February 22nd, 2007

At last year’s Detroit Auto Show, Mazda introduced its new Hydrogen Rotary Hybrid concept. The gas/hydrogen-powered rotary RX-8 is now available in Japan. The latest hybrid concept has a more advanced platform in Tokyo, plus updated Mazda parts with a rotary hybrid version of the up-to-the-minute Mazda 5. It is waiting for another year to finish up certain aspects of the concept with a gas/hydrogen rotary.

For those unsounded: a hydrogen vehicle is any kind of vehicle using hydrogen as it primary source of power for locomotive purposes. These vehicles use hydrogen in two methods, either for combustion or fuel-cell conversion. Now a hybrid vehicle uses a more distinct power-fueled source for vehicle momentum.

Now let’s get back to our Mazda 5 hybrid.

The rotary engine links to a Mazda-developed hybrid unit where there are two fuel gas tanks: gas beneath the rear seat with a battery array and a hydrogen tank in the back (although this replaces the third row of seats. Mazda also increased the same bi-fuel, two-rotor hydrogen RENESIS rounding the corner as the RX-8 demonstrated in a front-drive appliqué.

The sole principle is to expand the range of models in which a hydrogen rotary budding can be used and this car is a better fit than the RX-8 for the bi-fuel hardware because the hydrogen tank can fill up to nearly the RX-8’s entire small trunk. It compresses right in because of its larger size.