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The Future of the Internal Combustion Engine - /INSIDE KOENIGSEGG

The Future of the Internal Combustion Engine - /INSIDE KOENIGSEGG on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2014–2018.

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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.

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“For those of you interested in seeing some more details on Koenigsegg's work with their freevalve engine”
— nounaut, Aug 2018, in “Fully digital valves open up engine possibilities”

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nounautAug 2018Recommends

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

in “Fully digital valves open up engine possibilities” · View on HN

andrewdbApr 2016Cites it

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: ▶ this video

in “How a Car Engine Works” · View on HN

Already__TakenDec 2015Cites it

There is a lot more to come from the ICE when it comes to manufacturing processes and the electronics. Work like this: ▶ 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.

in “Car Engines: The incredible shrinking machine” · View on HN

StolpeJul 2014Cites it

I remember seeing something similar to this a year ago in a documentary series concerning the small Swedish supercar manufacturer Koenigsegg. See it here: ▶ this video . It sounds really interesting.

in “No crankshaft, no problem: Toyota's free piston engine is brilliant” · View on HN

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Cars, EVs & motorcyclesMechanical & precision engineeringkoenigseggfreevalveinternal combustionengine designautomotive