Koenigsegg and NEVS announced a new technical partnership recently that also includes some swapping of cash for stock in various entities. Both companies are Swedish although NEVS (the National Electric Vehicle Sweden Company) is now owned by a Chinese parent. You may remember an article Motoring Weekly published recently about Koenigsegg’s camless engine and we have written … [Read more...]
The Camless Engine
A few years ago, Koenigsegg, the Swedish manufacturer of hyper-cars showed off a new style internal combustion engine: the camless engine. Specifically, it was a subsidiary called Freevalve that showed the engine. The idea is relatively simple - which is often the basis for many great ideas! If you remove the cams that open and shut the valves, you can not only lighten the … [Read more...]
Lynk & Co Head to the Track
Since the dawn of the automotive industry, manufacturers have used motor sport to sell their wares. In the early days it wasn't just about speed, it was also about reliability - and even up to the late 1990s there were reliability trials in Australia, simply because conditions can be so extreme in some areas. Geely in China owns Volvo in Sweden and has recently launched a … [Read more...]
Alf Lysholm
Alf James Rudolph Lysholm appears to be the least known engineer who developed a piece of kit that can now be found in many different applications: planes, trains, automobiles - even refrigeration units! In fact, by far the majority of web sites that discuss Lysholm have simply cut and paste a very small item from Wikipedia. His life though, was far more than just a couple of … [Read more...]
The Turkish National Car
Back in 2015, Tubitak, the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, announced that it had licensed technology from NEVS, the National Electric Vehicle Sweden, to build a national car. Chinese owned NEVS had bought some of the assets of SAAB when it finally ground to a halt after several failed attempts to revive it. Those assets appear to be the factory and … [Read more...]