It has been greater than three years since Koenigsegg took the covers off the Gemera, a four-seat hypercar producing 1,700 hp from a 3-cylinder engine and a trio of electrical motors.

A brand new crop of electrical hypercars boasting outputs reaching as excessive as 2,000 hp has since emerged, together with the Lotus Evija and its 2,011 hp, which makes it probably the most highly effective manufacturing automobile on this planet.

Koenigsegg could have a response to those quickly, and it comes from a tried-and-tested V-8 engine.

Koenigsegg fanatic web site Egg Registry has reported that Koenigsegg held a latest assembly with sellers and clients to mark the completion of a plant growth to help Gemera manufacturing. On the occasion, the corporate introduced a V-8 engine will likely be supplied as a substitute for the turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-3 that was revealed on the Gemera’s 2020 Geneva auto present debut.

Koenigsegg Gemera

In keeping with the web site, the brand new engine is identical turbocharged 5.0-liter V-8 destined for the Koenigsegg Jesko, and when paired with the Gemera’s electrical motors will generate 2,300 hp on E85 gasoline. The three-cylinder will reportedly stay commonplace, and the V-8 will likely be a really hefty $400,000 possibility.

The electrical aspect of the Gemera’s powertrain would be the similar for each gasoline engines. It depends on Koenigsegg’s personal Quark electrical motor, which weighs 63 kilos and develops as much as 335 hp. Three of the motors characteristic within the Gemera, and the automobile will get Koenigsegg’s personal inverter, which the corporate has christened David. Powering the electrical motors is a 15-kwh battery.

Koenigsegg has beforehand claimed a 0-62 mph time of 1.9 seconds and a record-speed run to 248 mph with the 3-cylinder engine.

Koenigsegg Gemera

In keeping with Egg Registry, Koenigsegg will even add typical aspect mirrors to the Gemera, as a substitute of a camera-based mirrors as beforehand proven, to satisfy necessities within the U.S. The automobile will even reportedly be supplied with an aerodynamics bundle dubbed the Ghost Package deal.

Koenigsegg has beforehand stated Gemera manufacturing will likely be restricted to 300 models and that deliveries will begin round 2025.