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The Future of the Internal Combustion Engine - /INSIDE KOENIGSEGG

The Drive · 1.5M views · 2013-02-19 · 10:06

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Overview

Episode 7 of the Inside Koenigsegg series, where Christian von Koenigsegg demonstrates the camless Free Valve engine technology. It discusses how such innovation could affect the wider auto industry.

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Cited in threads on camless, digital valve and free-piston engines as a look at Koenigsegg's freevalve work.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2014–2018

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Cars, EVs & motorcyclesMechanical & precision engineering
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nounaut · 2018-08 · Recommendation

For those of you interested in seeing some more details on Koenigsegg's work with their freevalve engine: [VIDEO] (2013) [LINK] (2016)

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andrewdb · 2016-04 · Reference

The timing chain and the camshaft seems really inefficient; I'm looking forward to when camless designs become more mainstream. Koenigsegg (among others, I assume) has been working on this tech [0][1]. 0: [LINK] 1: [VIDEO]

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Already__Taken · 2015-12 · Reference

There is a lot more to come from the ICE when it comes to manufacturing processes and the electronics. Work like this: [VIDEO] 3d printing a whole engine must surely enable some impressive things. I remember watching a little demonstration using machine learning for the engine timing once you can get the belts out.

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