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Cited in threads on camless, digital valve and free-piston engines as a look at Koenigsegg's freevalve work.
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.
“For those of you interested in seeing some more details on Koenigsegg's work with their freevalve engine” (HN, 2018)
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.
Koenigsegg documentary segment on a similar engine concept.
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.
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]
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