{"id":212503,"date":"2025-04-26T17:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/dark-matter-an-86-lb-800-hp-ev-motor-by-koenigsegg"},"modified":"2025-04-26T17:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:26:09","slug":"dark-matter-an-86-lb-800-hp-ev-motor-by-koenigsegg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/dark-matter-an-86-lb-800-hp-ev-motor-by-koenigsegg","title":{"rendered":"Dark Matter: An 86-lb, 800-hp EV motor by Koenigsegg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dark-matter-an-86-lb-800-hp-ev-motor-by-koenigsegg2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no replacement for displacement. An adage that\u2019s been around as long as the combustion engine, really. But these age-old sayings don\u2019t really apply anymore when it comes to electric motors.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, we talked about Koenigsegg\u2019s <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/automotive\/koenigsegg-light-speed-tourbillon-transmission\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Light Speed Tourbillon Transmission<\/a> (LSTT). We explored how it couples the 5-liter, 1,500 horsepower (1,119 kW), 1,106 lb-ft (1,500 Nm) of torque, \u201cHot V8\u201d engine shoed into the rear of the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/automotive\/koenigsegg-gemera-hybrid-gt\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Gemera<\/a> hypercar and the 850-volt Dark Matter electric motor mounted in the front \u2013 but we never got into the specifics of this insane electric powerplant and what makes it so remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>Unveiled in 2023 and stuffed into the Koenigsegg Gemera, the Dark Matter motor created an entirely new league of high-performance electric motor that didn\u2019t quite exist before. Most of its details are still hidden away in a secret Koenigsegg vault while awaiting patent protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no replacement for displacement. An adage that\u2019s been around as long as the combustion engine, really. But these age-old sayings don\u2019t really apply anymore when it comes to electric motors. Earlier this year, we talked about Koenigsegg\u2019s Light Speed Tourbillon Transmission (LSTT). We explored how it couples the 5-liter, 1,500 horsepower (1,119 kW), 1,106 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212503","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=212503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}