The Future of the Internal Combustion Engine - /INSIDE KOENIGSEGG
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited in threads on camless, digital valve and free-piston engines as a look at Koenigsegg's freevalve work.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2014 to 2018.
What Hacker News said
Recommends nounaut · 2018-08 · on “Fully digital valves open up engine possibilities”
For those of you interested in seeing some more details on Koenigsegg's work with their freevalve engine: [this video] (2013) [LINK] (2016)
Cites Stolpe · 2014-07 · on “No crankshaft, no problem: Toyota's free piston engine is brilliant”
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.
Cites Already__Taken · 2015-12 · on “Car Engines: The incredible shrinking machine”
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.
Cites andrewdb · 2016-04 · on “How a Car Engine Works”
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]