{"id":122100,"date":"2021-04-29T21:25:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T04:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/heres-how-the-koenigsegg-gemeras-600bhp-camless-engine-works"},"modified":"2021-05-10T01:28:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T08:28:20","slug":"heres-how-the-koenigsegg-gemeras-600bhp-camless-engine-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/heres-how-the-koenigsegg-gemeras-600bhp-camless-engine-works","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s how the Koenigsegg Gemera\u2019s 600bhp camless engine works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heres-how-the-koenigsegg-gemeras-600bhp-camless-engine-works3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One critical part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.topgear.com\/car-news\/geneva-motor-show-2020\/koenigsegg-gemera-1700bhp-four-seat-mega-gt\" target=\"_blank\">Koenigsegg Gemera<\/a>\u2019s brain-scrambling powertrain is its \u2018Freevalve\u2019 petrol engine. You might have glossed over it while trying to compute the outputs, and they way that engine combines with three electric motors to produce, er, 1700bhp in all. Or in metric, 1.27 Megawatts. Or the power draw of a couple of hundred houses cooking dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Christian von Koenigsegg, though, will talk for hours about this engine. He\u2019s so affectionate about the thing he\u2019s got a nickname rather than the usual dreary car-business habit of codenames. This, then, is the Tiny Friendly Giant.<\/p>\n<p>Giant because 600bhp. Tiny because it\u2019s just two litres and three cylinders. Maybe two litres isn\u2019t that tiny in displacement (though CvK\u2019s cars have mostly had big V8s) but it\u2019s physically very small and easy to package. It has just the three cylinders, and no overhead camshaft casings, and no camshaft drive on the front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One critical part of the Koenigsegg Gemera\u2019s brain-scrambling powertrain is its \u2018Freevalve\u2019 petrol engine. You might have glossed over it while trying to compute the outputs, and they way that engine combines with three electric motors to produce, er, 1700bhp in all. Or in metric, 1.27 Megawatts. Or the power draw of a couple of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122456,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122100\/revisions\/122456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}