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Fresh from receiving a 150 million-euro infusion from
National Electric Vehicle Sweden
, the Chinese-backed company that bought up
‘s assets out of bankruptcy,
maker
has signaled just what it plans to do under the new joint venture.
Christian von
Koenigsegg gave an interview to Top Gear
in which he said he wants to develop an all-new
to sit below ultra-exclusive models like the Agera RS and Regera, priced at around €1 million (about $1.15 million) to grow sales from 20 a year into the hundreds, because “our brand has outgrown our production volumes by quite a big margin.” And it will feature a novel, “completely CO2 neutral”
powrtrain using the “freevalve” camless combustion engine technology the company has been developing in concert with battery-electric power.
“Given the freevalve technology, we can actually cold-start the car on pure alcohol, down to -30 degrees Celsius, so there’s no need for any fossil fuel mix then,” he told
. “The idea is to prove to the world that even a combustion engine can be completely CO2 neutral.”
Von Koenigsegg
previously hinted at the setup
after talking about how his engineers were responding to
‘s claims that its forthcoming next-generation Roadster would be capable of a 1.9-second 0-60 mph time. He further hints that the new hybridized supercar will look unmistakably like a Keonigsegg but be in a different segment altogether from either the Agera RS or
.
Consider us very much intrigued and eager to hear more. Meanwhile, Koenigsegg has said it plans to
reveal the successor to the Agera RS
next month at the
based on a refined version of the same supercharged V8 combustion engine.
The
, meanwhile, sees that company take a 65 percent ownership stake, with Koenigsegg holding the rest and contributing its trove of intellectual property, technology licenses and product design. NEVS also gets a 20 percent stake in Koenigsegg itself.
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