News: Koenigsegg Regera: 1500 HP, 0-248mph in under 20 seconds!

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http://koenigsegg.com/regera/

The Regera - a new Era

The Regera was created as a luxury Megacar alternative to Koenigsegg’s traditional extreme lightweight race-like road cars. Even though the One:1 and the Agera RS have surprising levels of practicality, creature comforts and features, their primary focus is, and has always been, to be the overall fastest cars on the planet – around a racetrack or elsewhere.

Regera is Swedish for “to Reign” - a suitable name for a machine that offers a never seen before combination of power, responsiveness and luxury - creating a true Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde persona.

Constellation DRL

A good design and layout of the DRL (Daylight Running Lights) gives character, as the DRL is what’s first seen when a car comes driving from a distance.

We wanted the Regera to stand out and clearly be recognized also from a far, so we came up with a novel idea that we call – Constellation DRL.

To get a constellation of stars effect, we scattered the LED´s, which make up the DRL, around the lamp cluster, giving the effect of star constellations on a night sky made up of polished carbon fiber.

A side effect is that the LED´s make the whole lamp cluster glitter and shine, as if there where diamonds thrown into them. That´s what we call - Koenigsegg cool.

The heart of the matter

The heart and soul of every Koenigsegg is its Internal Combustion Engine – the ICE. The ICE of the Regera follows the path of its siblings, based on the proven and extremely reliable Koenigsegg drysumped twin turbo, DOHC, 5.0 liter V8.

As before, the Koenigsegg V8 is the most downsized homologated production ICE in the world, with 220 Hp per liter engine (using regular pump gas). The compactness of the engine makes the Regera nimble, efficient and lightweight.

The difference to the Agera engine is that, given the electric propulsion of the Direct Drive system, we did not have to go as extreme on ICE power, as the combined output is way over 1500 Hp and over 2000 Nm torque, anyway. Given this we could install even smaller, faster spooling turbos on the Regera, further enhancing the ICE drivability and response.

A new level of luxury

The Direct Drive transmission of the Regera is capable of delivering never before experienced blistering response and performance and at the same time able to deliver one of the smoothest and most soothing driving experiences. Given this high level of bi-polar characteristics, the rest of the car had to be up to the task of delivering blistering, lightweight performance at new levels of soothing luxury.

Therefore Koenigsegg developed a completely new rear sub frame and rear structure that allows the engine and transmission to rest on active soft mounts. When driving in normal conditions the mounts stay soft and isolate engine noise and vibrations. When driving spirited, the mounts firm up to solidify the car and give greater response. The shock absorbers are active in height and stiffness – again allowing for the bi-polar behavior.

Furthermore, the Regera can be driven in absolute silence, as it is possible to go into full EV mode for shorter periods of time.

The first fully robotized car

Given the latest advances in compact lightweight hydraulics, Koenigsegg has managed to robotize the entire Regera with almost no weight addition. As the Regera features functions such as; active front and rear wings, chassis control and lifting system - the pumps and accumulators were already in place to connect a few more hydraulic operators. These in turn replaced gas struts of equal weight – resulting in minimal weight impact.

Due to the above, the Regera is the first car in the world that operates all body closures completely automatically. The spectacle to open and close the entire car simultaneously from the remote or smartphone, truly turns the Regera into a transformer.

On top of this, all body closures have soft latching mechanisms, giving the Regera a sophisticated feel. The fully robotized body system, with soft latches adds a mere 5 kg, making full robotization a very desirable option.

Furthermore the wing mirrors are auto-folding while the doors open, giving added practicality and visual drama, as the Dihedral Synchro Helix Doors swing out and rotate 90 degrees to fully clear the door opening, without protruding more than the width of the door – making them highly ergonomic.

Plug-in capability

The Regera utilizes an EV plug in feature. Behind the robotized rear number plate nestles a type 2 mode 3 charging port. This means that the Direct Drive Battery can be charged either by the combustion engine or through the charging port. The plug-in solution enabled us to create a novel feature we call - Battery Drain Mode, or BDM for short. For example, when there is around 50 km range left to the destination or next charging point, a preset geo location or a push on the touchscreen will trigger the BDM. This means the car calculates the driving behavior and makes sure the battery is fully drained upon arrival and is ready for a full charge. This drastically minimize fuel consumption and lower C02 emissions as the fuel consumed has been correctly optimized for the length of the journey.

The world’s first fully foldable, active, top-mounted rear wing

The Koenigsegg One:1 featured the world’s first top mounted active rear wing. This was an innovative solution that maximized down force compared to its size and weight.

The Regera, being more luxury oriented, has taken this solution to the next level, allowing the wing also to fully fold down into the body work enhancing the cars elegance while parking and reducing drag while cruising. The wing´s active foldable mechanism, is a lightweight work of carbon fiber art and the movement is truly mesmerizing.

Sporting a unique exhaust-note, the Regera has a custom designed, sound tuned titanium system jointly developed by Akrapovic.

The novel exhaust system includes a fish tail outlet, envisioned by Christian, which has not been seen on a production car for the last half century, so we are excited to bring back the sound of the past!

Koenigsegg Direct Drive

As many of you have heard, Christian is not a fan of hybrids, as they are generally compromised when it comes to weight, complexity, cost, packaging and efficiency.

Given this the Regera is not what we at Koenigsegg would call a hybrid, as it does not have the traditional shortcomings of a hybrid. Instead the Regera is a new breed of Koenigsegg - and car for that matter.

Traditional, so called parallel, hybrids are compromised and heavy, as they have two independent propulsion systems. Alternatively, series hybrids are less compromised when it comes to weight, complexity and costs, but instead they are compromised when it comes to efficiency, as there is too much energy conversion going on.

This brings us to the Koenigsegg Direct Drive Transmission or KDD for short - invented by Christian von Koenigsegg and developed for the Regera by the Koenigsegg Advanced Engineering team.

The patent pending KDD system replaces the combustion engines traditional transmission and gives the added benefit of pure EV mode. What is unique is that the KDD manages to create direct drive to rear axle from the combustion engine without the need of multitude gears or other traditional types of variable transmissions, with inherently high energy losses.

During highway travel, for example, the KDD reduces drivetrain losses, compared to traditional transmission or CVT by over 50%, as there is no step up or step down gear working in series with the final drive - just direct power transmission from the engine to the wheels.

To supplement the energy from the combustion engine and to allow for torque vectoring, regenerative braking, extreme drivers response, reverse and energy conversion, there are three YASA developed electric motors. YASA´s axial flux motors are extremely power dense and allow for direct drive, making them a key-ingredient for the KDD. One YASA for each rear wheel, giving direct drive - this time electric - and one on the crankshaft, giving torque-fill, electrical generation and starter motor functionality.

The three electric motors constitute the most powerful electrical motor set-up in production car history, replacing the gears of a normal transmission while adding; power, torque, torque vectoring and yet still able to remove weight.

The battery pack and PDU for the KDD were developed and manufactured together with Electric Supercar virtuoso Mate Rimac and his engineering team. The 620 V battery pack is of the latest fully flooded type and is the most power-dense battery pack ever created for a road going car with 9,27 kWh of energy, 67 liters of volume, and 115kg of weight. Still, a full 500 kW can momentarily be drawn during acceleration and over 150 kW can be absorbed by the battery-pack during regenerative braking and ICE power generation mode.

Every cell of the pack is carefully monitored for voltage, state of charge, health and temperature. The cells are enclosed in a fully machined aluminum casing for safety and stability. The battery is located in the most protected area of the car - the carbon-aramid chassis tunnel. The whole battery pack is actively cooled by external radiators and the Regera´s all new electrical air-conditioning system, which also can pre-cool the car via the Koenigsegg app on a warm day.

The complete KDD system, including the battery, adds a mere 88kg to the Regera´s weight, compared to what the Regera would have weighed with a traditional ICE, coupled to a 7 speed DCT transmission instead of the KDD. Presently no other hybrid Hypercar even comes close to this type of weight ratio for their electrification. This is interesting, as they all have smaller battery capacity and less electric power than the Regera.

To put it into perspective, the Regera has almost triple as many electric Bhp (700 Bhp) and over 300 Bhp more than its closest hybrid rival. Still the Regera manages to be very competitive weight wise, while including unusual features such as a six way adjustable electrical seat and a fully robotized body work. This is no small feature and it is a testament to the meticulous nature of the Koenigsegg engineering team.

The combination of electrical and combustion power is just mind boggling. When you get up to speed, the system really comes into play - How about 3.2 seconds between 150 to 250 km/h and under 20 seconds from 0 to 400 hm/h?

Powertrain stats
1100 Hp of combustion engine power on 91 octane DIN or 95 octane RON (a bit more on E85)
1250 Nm of combustion engine torque
700 Hp of electric propulsion
900 Nm of electric torque
9 kWh 620 Volt, flooded liquid cooled battery pack

Combined numbers
Over 1500 BHp or 1.11 MW
Over 2000 Nm of torque
Dry weight 1420 kg
1628 kg curb weight (including all liquids and full fuel tank)

 

[miscer]

very manly paint color for such a car :dunno:

screams miata when I look at it

obviously the rest is awesome

 

[Vroum-Direct]

Nice ! How much?

 

[-Phil-]

Nice ! How much?

More than you can afford pal.

 

[DannyITR]

$1.8 Million!

 

[DivImport]

Koenigsegg, I feel, is the ultimate troll of the supercar world; the perfect brand for the what about'ism cesspool of YouTube comments. There can't be any La Ferrari, P1, 918, Veyron video that goes without its fair share of "what about the Koenigsegg" thanks to Drive and their whole series about a car without actually any driving.

They have been rehashing the same car for a decade making outrageous and mostly false headline grabbing claims trying to one up the true masters of the supercar world and yet when push comes to shove they are consistently absent from comparison and the few times they are, their "theoretically better" car consistently fails to impress or breaks down, a certain Top Gear episode comes to mind.

This car and company is a wanker's dream, jerking off to CAD files and 3D printing turbos while forgetting they are actually making a car that needs to prove its worth, which it never did. 0-400 in 20 secs, sure, tested where, on a computer? "But the only place we can test it is a Nardo and VAG wont let us" BS, close down the highway in UAE and gun it. What about a Nurb time? Oh wait, they tried and crashed the car. What about actually taking it racing? What happened to the One:1?

It's been over a decade of facelifts and new drivetrains, drive the damn car already.

 

[.Fred]

Koenigsegg, I feel, is the ultimate troll of the supercar world; the perfect brand for the what about'ism cesspool of YouTube comments. There can't be any La Ferrari, P1, 918, Veyron video that goes without its fair share of "what about the Koenigsegg" thanks to Drive and their whole series about a car without actually any driving.

They have been rehashing the same car for decades making outrageous and mostly false headline grabbing claims trying to one up the true masters of the supercar world and yet when push comes to shove they are consistently absent from comparison and the few times they are, their "theoretically better" car consistently fails to impress or breaks down, a certain Top Gear episode comes to mind.

This car and company is a wanker's dream, drooling over CAD files and 3D printing turbos while forgetting they are actually making a car that needs to prove its worth, which it never did. 0-400 in 20 secs, sure, tested where, on a computer? "But the only place we can test it is a Nardo and VAG wont let us" BS, close down the highway in UAE and gun it. What about a Nurb time? What about actually taking it racing? What happened to the One:1?

It's been over a decade of facelifts and new drivetrains, drive the damn car already.

Go on youtube, theres a couple videos on an Agera R smoking a Veyron.

But I agree, I want to see : P1 vs LaFerrari vs 918 vs Regera vs my dads Prius.

 

[DivImport]

Go on youtube, theres a couple videos on an Agera R smoking a Veyron.
.

This goes to prove my point, after all these years our only comparative data is from Gustav beating a Veyron Vitesse under amateur conditions on YouTube. GTRs with 100,000$ under the hood have been doing this for year.

He completely backtracked on his negative remarks about hybrids by putting out a elementary school level PR release about how the Regera isn't actually an hybrid because it uses a one speed transmission with 4 engines, how the fuck is this not a hybrid? Then we are supposed to believe the Regera is the class leading hyper car of this generation with never seen before tech and the most powerful ICE and electric motors? Another day, another bullshit claim by Koenigsegg.

CVG and his small inexperienced team supposedly did all this in a couple months after understanding nobody cared for the One:1 as it wasn't what the market was expecting at all from this current crop of hypercars. Christian should be ashamed of selling 1.5MM computer simulations.

I honestly feel he shouldn't be CEO of this company as he clearly lacks vision and coherence, relate him to engineering and have someone else establish cohesion within this company. He should take some cues from Pagani and find his own niche. You don't get to play with the big boys that easily.

 

[Al3x_666]

J ai toujours trouvé cette compagnie étrange...

Totalement d accord avec Divimport. On les voir jamais testé nul part.. Quelques rares videos sur youtube.

Ca me rappelle le thread sur 6 speedonline. Le gars aux USA qui en avait commandé une et quand il l a vue a peeble beach c etait un tas de marde...

Peinture degeulasse
Interieur ultra cheap mal assemblé
Char non tuné, inroulable..
Delais interminable..
Etc...
Etc..

Christian Van Koenigsegg lui avait racheté le char conditionnellement a ce qui ferme sa gueule...

Ses posts disparaissaient du forum.. Le gars s est tanné et a vidé son sac...

The shit hit the fan...

 

[Al3x_666]

Pagani > Coco

 

[SRT-What?]

Ugliest rear end ever

 

[Al3x_666]

Ugliest rear end ever

Tellement !

Le char au complet est laid..

Overdone!

 

[DDspec V]

je prefère les AGERA ONE :run:

 

[meanteg]

nobody cared for the One:1 as it wasn't what the market was expecting at all from this current crop of hypercars.

Post très intéressant à lire.

Par contre, quelle est ta source pour les faits énoncés?

Chiffres de vente?

Quelle est ta source?

 

[Ronin]

I don't really care if they are selling pipe dreams as this is all what this car will ever be for everyone here.

 

[DivImport]

The One:1 isn't even finished! It was shown at Geneva 2014, as Koenigsegg does every single time, as a "finished" car yet had numerous non functioning parts. All the source you need is the fact that no one has seen or heard this car driven, ever. They have built 1 development car and all we have to show for its development is a couple cool CAD file videos from the drive series and a 7 sec clip of the car at the Nurb in september 2014.

Only CVG can make so much shit up and still be pawned upon by YouTube commentors as a "genius" and compared to the likes of Elon Musk. He had the idea for the Regera 8 months ago according to numerous interviews at Geneva, 8 months!

8 months to put together a class dominating hypercar whereas Ferrari Porsche and McLaren all put in 4 years minimum of hardcore research and development with the world's best engineers using technology derived from Formula 1 and LeMans racing. Where does Koenigsegg race again; Gran Turismo? The in car software doesnt even work and even though it has this "unique" direct drive system with a single gear the Geneva car still has paddles on the steering wheel.

Post très intéressant à lire.

Par contre, quelle est ta source pour les faits énoncés?

Chiffres de vente?

Quelle est ta source?

 

[boxcarracer]

J ai toujours trouvé cette compagnie étrange...

Totalement d accord avec Divimport. On les voir jamais testé nul part.. Quelques rares videos sur youtube.

Ca me rappelle le thread sur 6 speedonline. Le gars aux USA qui en avait commandé une et quand il l a vue a peeble beach c etait un tas de marde...

Peinture degeulasse
Interieur ultra cheap mal assemblé
Char non tuné, inroulable..
Delais interminable..
Etc...
Etc..

Christian Van Koenigsegg lui avait racheté le char conditionnellement a ce qui ferme sa gueule...

Ses posts disparaissaient du forum.. Le gars s est tanné et a vidé son sac...

The shit hit the fan...

Was coming in here to post this. The more I look at it, the more I see Koenigsegg as the HTT Plethore that 'made it'.

 

[meanteg]

The One:1 isn't even finished! It was shown, as Koenigsegg does every single time, as a "finished" car yet had numerous non functioning parts. All the source you need is the fact that no one has seen or heard this car driven, ever.

Only CVG can make so much shit up and still be pawned upon by YouTube commentors as a "genius" and compared to the likes of Elon Musk. He had the idea for the Regera 8 months ago according to numerous interviews at Geneva, 8 months!

8 months to put together a class dominating hypercar whereas Ferrari Porsche and McLaren all put in 4 years minimum of hardcore research and development with the world's best engineers using technology derived from Formula 1 and LeMans racing. Where does Koenigsegg race again; Gran Turismo? The in car software doesnt even work and even though it has this "unique" direct drive system with a single gear the Geneva car still has paddles on the steering wheel.

J'ai le même feeling que toi envers Koenigsegg.

Par contre si je me fais l'avocat du diable ici:

Comparaison avec Elon Musk? Not fair. Guy is billionnaire. Nonetheless it takes a lot more than money to succeed in business, but you can go A LOT further with generous supplies of it.


Do a search online about how much time it took Chrysler to conceive the first Viper.


Paddles are probably to select D-N-R.


You have to give credit to Konigsegg for doing a lot of research and developpment, witch is so much more work, time and money than just using the beaten path.

Example: CF Wheels, CF coil springs. Camless engine. Single speed hybrid car.


Ill repeat myself:

I feel the same way as you about Koenigsegg.

At the end of the day, the company remains absent most of the time, it has a mysterious aura.

 

[Ronin]

It does drive pretty good when playing Gran Turismo, I'm not sure why you should care about anything else.