"We started packaging it, and everything started to fall into place. "We were fighting to make it work, only to land back at the three-cylinder idea," said von Koenigsegg. presented challenges in the four-seat Gemera. But Koenigsegg found that removing the turbochargers had "very little effect on emissions" because "you don't have the turbos cooling down the exhaust gases before the catalytic converters." So far, Koenigsegg hasn't built a V8 with Freevalve as von Koenigsegg sees the V8 as a "trusted entity" but said the possibility of engineering a camless V8 is "always lurking around the corner."įitting a V8 into the four-seat Gemera also posed challenges as it would have reduced the interior space. At the start of the Gemera's development, the plan was to use a naturally-aspirated V8 with hybrid electrification. "The three-cylinder Freevalve concept was something I had in the back of my mind, dreaming about for like 10 years-to have this super compact, renewable-fuel-capable little monster of an engine that can replace much bigger engines," von Koenigsegg said.
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