GENEVA MOTOR SHOW: Koenigsegg Gemera hammers EV power home
1.27 megaWatts, 400km/h and four seats for Koenigsegg’s latest missileThe Geneva motor show has always been about concept cars, crazy sports cars and family cars.
This year's instalment of the 90-year-old annual Swiss show might have been cancelled, but Swedish hypercar maker Koenigsegg has still rolled them all into one outrageous four-seater called the Gemera that even has isofix points for the rear seats.
Said to be a family car, the Koenigsegg Gemera boasts an astonishing 1270kW of power, 3500Nm of torque (not a typo) and rips to 100km/h in a claimed 1.9 seconds.
And it’s a hybrid, combining a turbocharged three-cylinder petrol engine with town-lighting electric power.
It has a top speed of 400km/h, which is limited, and Cristian von Koenigsegg assures the world he will only build 300 of them.
It’s a proper family car, too, Koenigsegg insists, with cup-holders, wireless phone charging, rear-seat entertainment and luggage for four pieces of carry-on kit.
Claimed to be an environmentally friendly megacar, the Gemera defies conventional powertrain engineering with a host of stuff you rarely see together.
Each rear wheel scores an electric motor and there’s another one on the crankshaft of the combustion engine. They chip in for a combined 800kW of power.
The electrically boosted 2.0-litre three-cylinder “Freevalve” combustion engine can run on ethanol or methanol and drives the front wheels. The fuels it swallows are so clean that Koenigsegg claims they’re as good as CO2 neutral.
The little triple knocks out 450kW of power and 600Nm of torque in its own right, so it’s not to be mocked. Yes, 600 horsepower from a three-cylinder engine! It will even swallow petrol.
The Gemera can hit 300km/h in pure EV mode, which is rear-drive only, though that’ll eke nastily into the 31km of range from the 800-volt battery system.
All the power systems are tied together for torque vectoring and all-wheel drive, all squeezed into a carbon-fibre monocoque.
The odd-opening Koenigsegg doors remain, though they’re enormously long inside the frameless doors.
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