Within the grand tapestry of automotive historical past, Koenigsegg’s Gentle Velocity Tourbillon Transmission is not only a new chapter; it is a wholly new quantity of mechanical sorcery, making it the one manufacturing transmission to allow all-wheel drive with one electrical motor.
It’s possible you’ll be questioning why “Tourbillon” is used to call a transmission. Nicely, within the high-dollar world of horology, a tourbillon is a mechanism that counters the consequences of Earth’s gravity on a watch’s accuracy. Within the high-dollar world of Koenigsegg, it is a testomony to the meticulous craftsmanship and precision engineering that the Swedish automotive sorcerers have forged into the beating coronary heart of the Gemera that, merely put, appears to defy Earth’s gravity.
To higher illustrate that truth, the Gemera has a complete of two,300 hp (1,715 kW) and a pair of,028 lb-ft (2,750 Nm) of torque winding its means via the transmission.
“We added tourbillon to the title of the LST, as this mechanism represents the automotive equal of a high-end Swiss watch and is solely lovely,” says Christian von Koenigsegg, CEO of Koenigsegg.
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The Gentle Velocity Tourbillon Transmission (LSTT) has been fully reworked to wrap round Koenigsegg’s “Sizzling V8” engine – which was additionally reworked to suit throughout the small confines of the transmission’s embrace – cradling the 1,500-horsepower (1,119 kW), 1,106 lb-ft (1,500 Nm) of torque, 5-liter V8 like a mom swaddles her new child.
Contained in the transmission are compounded 3×3 gears, giving the LSTT 9 ahead gears, organized in such a means – and with no flywheel to hamper the method – that no different manufacturing transmission can match its pace in banging via the gears.
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Slightly than coping with the bygone days of differentials, Koenigsegg selected a bevel gear to switch energy on to a pair of gear-train cassettes mounted to output shafts on both aspect of the transmission. With this deviation from custom, Koenigsegg can mechanically management torque vectoring to every of the rear wheels, as every cassette has hydraulic clutches and gears earlier than reaching the output flange to the wheel.
Opening and shutting these clutches may give the automotive a welded-rear-axle really feel or provide no energy in any respect.
And that is simply the rear finish.
From one other ahead output shaft within the LSTT, a carbon fiber axle stretches the size of the chassis to the “Bulldog,” Koenigsegg’s pet title for the entrance axle. Why Bulldog? As a result of intelligent Koenigsegg wizard-engineers crammed a bevel gear and two hydraulic clutches up entrance into an itty-bitty bundle.
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Oh, and the kladdkaka on high: in addition they squeezed in “DarkMatter,” an 805-hp (600-kW), 922 lb-ft (1,250 Nm) torque electrical motor.
Compact, low middle of gravity, and highly effective. Som bulldoggen.
The 6-phase electrical motor they name DarkMatter was particularly designed in-house for the Gemera and was unveiled in 2023. By utilizing six phases quite than the standard three, Koenigsegg enhanced energy supply by lowering the interval between energy pulses, additionally lowering “torque ripple” (variations in torque supply that trigger vibrations).
The Gemera may be pushed in full petrol mode, as a hybrid with each the ICE and EV motor offering the go-fast, or in pure EV mode – with out the inner combustion engine operating – for about 31 miles (50 km) not less than, relying on the lead content material of your proper foot.
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The DarkMatter motor does greater than merely add gobs of tunnel-vision-inducing G-LOC pressure while you mash the fuel pedal to the ground. It additionally acts because the Gemera’s reverse gear, because the LSTT ditched the “R” in favor of simplicity, fewer elements, and a smaller bundle. It additionally replaces the starter motor solely.
And with that, Koenigsegg was additionally in a position to accomplish one thing by no means earlier than carried out in a manufacturing automotive: All wheel drive (AWD) with a single electrical motor.
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“You are a wizard, Harry!”
Utilizing torque vectoring within the entrance axle with its hydraulic clutches, the electrical motor can independently energy every entrance wheel. However that is not all! It may well additionally feed energy again via the carbon fiber drive shaft and into the LSTT which – with its two hydraulic clutches – vector torque to every of the rear wheels.
Chief Govt of Working hypercar-wizards, Christian von Koenigsegg, laughingly goes as far as to say that the Gemera hypercar may be pushed by only one wheel with both the engine, the electrical motor, or each.
Koenigsegg’s LSTT is a setup that is each bit as elegant as it’s complicated … and maybe extra enjoyable than a Greubel Forsey.
KOENIGSEGG Gemera | Drivetrain Walkthrough
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