How The Koenigsegg Gemera Will Power All Four Wheels With Either Its Electric Motor Or Its Engine

Earlier this month, Koenigsegg announced that it would beryllium making a fewer changes to its upcoming four-seater, the Gemera. While the insane 2,300 hp (1,715 kW/2,332 PS) fig made each of the headlines, determination were immoderate different tidbits that were of a much technical, but inactive interesting, nature.

As highlighted successful a video by the Engineering Explained YouTube channel, the company’s owner, Christian von Koenigsegg, said that successful summation to receiving a V8 motor option, the plug-in hybrid Gemera volition besides beryllium capable to powerfulness each 4 wheels with either powertrain.

That’s a beauteous method concept, but erstwhile you halt to deliberation astir it, it’s really beauteous neat. In theory, that means that either the electrical centrifugal oregon the motor tin powerfulness each of the wheels. In practice, that volition apt mean highly precise torque vectoring for cornering show that’s arsenic insane arsenic the Gemera’s horsepower figures.

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Thanks to a batch of digging done patent documents, Engineering Explained’s Jason Fenske lays retired however the strategy volition enactment implicit the people of a 14-minute video. However, enactment simply, it involves a full heck of a batch of clutch packs.

Effectively, some the motor and centrifugal tin nonstop powerfulness either guardant oregon backward. Meanwhile, a quintet of clutches volition negociate the powerfulness output to each wheel, and volition efficaciously let each to bypass the other, if request be. Although it’s astatine the beforehand of the car, that means that the electrical centrifugal tin powerfulness either the beforehand oregon the rear wheels. Same goes for the motor (whether you take the 3 cylinder oregon the eight).

That means that the powerfulness portion has been simplified somewhat, arsenic compared to what Koenigsegg initially planned. Back successful 2020, its program for the Gemera was to acceptable 3 motors astatine the backmost of the car, and person 2 clutch packs astatine the beforehand handling torque vectoring. While the caller strategy adds a batch of clutch packs, it means less motors, which whitethorn explicate however the automaker managed to acceptable the V8 successful it (though it did inactive necessitate immoderate massaging).

We’ll person to hold until Koenigsegg lets outsiders thrust the Gemera earlier we cognize if the strategy works connected the road, but for present it’s each portion of the huffy idiosyncratic engineering that has defined Koenigsegg and earned it a spot successful the supercar pantheon.