That's quite the elaborate pun to get to the magazine! Koenigsegg: Design a supercar that requires no transmission, only a torque converter to shame other hypercar manufacturers Also Koenigsegg: Doubles down on the engineering and reinvents the transmission to again shame the competition.
NoFanSLand. It’s amazing the amount of groundbreaking stuff they come up with at Koenigsegg. The major car companies probably have multi billion dollar development budgets and can’t even compete with a niche car maker for ingenuity!
@@David-lr2vi can't compete with Koenigsegg? To be fair, all these "innovations" Koenigsegg came up with (Free Valve, Lightspeed transmission, top mounted spoiler, etc) are pretty meaningless if the car is not performing. For example every McLaren Senna with half the power or even a 488 pista is faster around tracks than these Koenigseggs. Koenigsegg cars are brutal but way less refined, they often lack traction or stability, which makes them hard and not fun to drive unlike cars such as the Gt2rs, the pista or the Senna, which all are way less powerful but better performing.
Nik7 BKH. Well McLaren is another niche car maker. I understand that the whole package makes the car. My whole point is that it seems that it’s the small volume car makers that seem to be doing all the R&D these days and not the mainstream companies like Toyota, Honda, Ford, GM, etc. Maybe the big car companies are all spending their R&D money on electric cars?
Or we can just kidnap/clone him and force the clones to teach at universities. It's for the better of humanity, victories eventually come at a small price.
I know this was more of a rhetorical question, but the gist of it is that your university professor doesn't really have to go above and beyond. He only needs to do his job, and if he isn't passionate, that's that. Jason on the other hand needs to be good at what he does, since his success in teaching is directly proportionate to how well his channel is doing, and thus his income.
The thing is your professors (need to) explain things more indepht, include more math etc. Obviously it's harder to understand if it's more complex. These videos explain the basic principle in good detail, but that's it.
Todestuete yup exactly I agree. A lot of people miss/forget that. He explains the basic concept. But it will always be harder when we have to go into the math and go more in depth.
Ha, fun to think about. You could actually figure it out by trying the different gear pairs, and seeing which individual clutch didn't work based on the three forward speeds that rely on it.
@@dank7491 he didnt he understood the joke as he said "Ha funny to think about" than explained how the problem can be solved also you wrote too many O's Baka
9:28 "So you're on the highway cruising, you want as much power as possible" Yeah, to undertake that truck hogging the left lane @ 55 mph, being in a 1600 hp Koenigsegg I would need just that
Coffee Pjesht nah, it’s so that when you see someone come flying up on you in a car they think is fast and you want to show them what fast really means. Or, when you want to pass that person who is causing your lane to go significantly slower than the passing lane so you can catch that opening.
Granted Koenigsegg are always playing around with technology that might be implemented in normal cars. They've been working on their freevalve technology for a few years now which (like the transmission) make the engine smaller and more efficient. This transmission could easily be implemented in other cars.
When the light switches from green to yellow! It's a shame they focused too much on how to make a 7 clutch car instead of adding another 400hp, make it an even 2000hp with maybe just 5 clutch?. For this reason I'll stick with my Prius.
Beastly Buick V6 It’s actually ignorant to not buy it. The people who have the chance to buy it can resell it and make crazy amounts of profit. This type of car resells for 2 to 3 the original purchase price.
As far as I remember it was just the opposite. Engineer: 7 clutches Christian: you mean 7 gears. Engineer: no, I had my meds, 7 clutches and it works. Christian: you are right, it works /someone please check his meds box before I give it a green light/ Engineer: What are you looking at on my desk? Yes my pc is unplugged but the ZPM works just fine... Check out this gearbox, this one is cool! :-)
“Well sir, we’re having a special today. For every three clutches you replace, we’ll throw in the fourth for free. That’s 8 clutches for the price of 6!”
Im studying mechanical engineering at DTU in Denmark, one of our teachers helped koenigsegg building this transmission. He told us that the biggest challange with this transmission was that the gears had to be very thin because of all the clutches. Most computer programs said the transmission was completly impossible to design. The tolerances in this transmission is extremely tight, and also the expected lifetime is not that high :D
He propably lied cuz Koenigsegg haven't said anything about it being bad in durability. The latest video about the gearbox litterly says it has very low wear of the gears and clutches.
Either way it’s a revolutionary feat in engineering and it’s too bad this was developed in the tail end of ICE era of automotive technology (although I don’t fully believe ICE is as close to being phased out as everyone wants us to believe, it is inevitable) I truly hope koenigsegg will license this to other manufacturers so us as simpletons will get to experience this. This has long been dream by car manufacturers and enthusiasts alike. Bravo, damn swedens put a perpetual watch in a transmission
@@theenzoferrari458 well you see if you're in 9th gear and you want to go to 2nd gear, 9+2 is 13, which is 2 digits and a car can't handle that much digits. in the game, the number overflows and loops back around to 1st gear, so its fine.
I'm in, too. But be warned. If everybody of your 2.2M subscribers gets 5 Minutes of driving time, the car needs to operate non-stop for 21 years. Better get a dedicated pit crew, a dependable fuel supplier and a ton of tyres.Edit: But you might get a couple of world records: Highest number of people crowdfunding one car. Highest number of people driving one car. Reaching 1 Million kilometers/miles in the shortest possible time with a single car. And many more :-)
Remember some years ago there were a lot of people saying that Koenigsegg made cars with highly tuned and modified engines and not much more than that... Well it's been time I don't hear (read) those type of comments anymore. Koenigsegg proves itself more and more everytime.
It's a mystery that a very low production car company can actually innovate in such an expensive R&D high tech area like this. Most "bespoke" manufacturers have no choice but to just use other people's parts. Even Rolls-Royce used GM transmissions. Amazing.
The difference being is that cars like Rolls-Royce are going to driven unlike the Koenigsegg which are garage queen due to how long it takes to get any repaired when the cars break down which happens frequently. Most of the technology koenigsegg uses has already been experimented by other automakers. There’s a reason they didn’t use said technology mostly because the difficulty of mass production, too little improvement over existing designs, or being unreliable.
@@vablo7198 Actually, with fewer engineers, you can concentrate on the important design features. With a 100 engineers, you get too many opinions and a mediocre all-round design (does not excel at any one thing).
@@R4M_Tommy you're right about not having the Free valve in a production car. But we had protype engines running on the same concept in the 90s at Navistar. Unfortunately controllers weren't fast enough at the time to do it reliably for hundreds of thousands of miles.
@@abes3925that is all BS lies from u. Koenigsegg's has never broke down without an driver error being the reason like reving the car as soon as u start it. Koenigsegg uses billet aluminium blocks litterly more durable than the W16 from Bugatti.
This kind of reminded me of bicycle gears. You have something like three chainrings on the front sprocket, and something like six cogs on the rear. A combination between which chainring and cog you are using decides the speed of your bike.
@@ValentineC137 NEVS and Koenigsegg created a joint venture on 29th January: "partnering up to develop a product for new and untapped segments, leveraging both of the companies’ strengths." This might mean a fully electric Koenigsegg. :D
Watch Geek it does feel surprising at first but if it’s anything like the IT industry it’s the very reason(being small) they have such fast innovation cycles. Of course the prerequisite for that to work is that they really know what they are doing. And they do.
Combining both the best stuff about single clutch and dual clutch, having 9 gears, shifting incredibly fast, all while being incredibly light. Christian and his team are a bunch of geniuses. And also major props to you. Beautifully explained. You and PapadakisRacing are the only RUclips channels I watch every video from.
Not that i am some enlightened being or anything like it but what most people don't realize is that when you pay millions for a Koenigsegg you are not paying for a car, you are paying for a Van Gogh on wheels, whereas instead of a painting, you get a machine engineered to art.
Thanks for a brilliant video! Koenigsegg is leaps and bounds ahead of everyone with their incredible engineering, and you did a great job of explaining how the LST functions.
Wow, this was pretty informative. I was wondering if you could do a video on specifics on the clutch packs on the Jesko (clutch packs on modern transmissions period, actually)? I know it uses solenoids and all, I think it would be a cool video if you were to dig deeper in the differences and benefits/drawbacks to this component.
Lluis Fargas López yes I’m aware that’s the bulk of it but I’ve already taken intro to design and engineering foundations and gear ratios, torque, and mechanical adv are all big topics
@@mohamedhussein5190 i see you are an enthusiast. You will get some fun fore sure if you don't worry to much about marks and try to enrolle in sone extra curricular activities. Right now I'm into the design of the refrigeration system for the batteries of an electric competition motorbike. Thought what I've liked the most are structures I have started to find some fun in the thermodynamics world and simulations with cae programs.
@@tcroft2165 Now use the C7 ZR1 for example. Has Out lapped the 720s on track like V.I.R While also running low 10second 1/4 Mile times and also weighs 3600 ibs
Plum_Crazy 1992 What exactly is over engineered on the LST? It’s small, simple, weights 90kg (200lbs), doesn’t even need a flywheel and can handle 1600HP.
As an automotive engineering student this is just baffling. Koenigsegg revolutionizes so many things in automotive technology which has been somewhat the same for a hundred years..
as an automotive engineering student.. you should know this is simply a traditional automatic gearbox with cog gears instead of planetary. im actually worried about the future of automotive engineering if you think this is baffling or revolutionary. pop quiz: explain how this gearbox operates fundamentally differently than the automatic in a '69 chev? you cant. its just a few extra gears, and the gears are shaped differently
How does Koenigsegg handle the 3/4 and 6/7 shifts, especially with clutch overlap for continuous power delivery? Those two involve swapping not one but two pairs of clutches - shifting one sub-transmission a step up and shifting the other down. All modern multi-clutch automatics involve only a single clutch-to-clutch swap for every sequential and double shift to avoid engine flare or bogging down the engine.
Exactly what I was thinking.... I respect Christian von Koenigsegg for his willingness to think outside the box. He brings something new with every new model
great job as always, yoru videos always make it very easy to understand. Your diagram is so good that you didn't even need more of the video because as soon as I saw the diagram, in less than a minute I understood how it worked
You only need to close two on the same shaft... And I bet this thing is gonna blow up often... all it takes is one clutch to fail and locka and it's over... (although, clutches usually slip with they fail, so maybe it's not such a problem).
@@mikkihintikka7273 in dual clutch transmissions they are pressure _closed_ (unlike on a manual, where the clutch is pressure _opened_ ), it's a safety feature. I guess it's the same with the königsegg. For park you only need one actuator and a notch in the output shaft.
@@mikkihintikka7273 yes, like on a motorcycle or manual trans car traditionally; but with so many clutches in this design(7 counting reverse) where most of them have to be open(5 open and only 2 closed for forward gears, and 6 open for reverse) it would seem better if normally they were all open in a 'resting' state ... a car or motorcycle uses springs to hold the clutch closed at rest, but here you could just use a solenoid to close it at will? - I wish he would have said how they operated the clutches in the video
It's like gears in a mountain bike 🚲 But true: some of these clutches (if not all) have to deal with enormous torqe. All of them must be actuated in some way (oil pressure?)
I knew there was a reason I wanted that issue of road and track! I lost it at the first airport, flew to my destination and bought another copy at that airport. Yet again I lost the magazine. When I returned to my home airport I bought it again and brought it home. I didn't see that article was written by you!
dude thats cool. ive been reading road and track for 25+ years. im 35. that's a great milestone to hit! dont know if it pays well but your at least famous enough to be resourced by major recognizable company's!! good job dude
I'm constantly amazed how Koenigsegg manage to come up with such amazing engineering all the time, such a small company but their tech is ahead of the big boys like Ferrari
Road & Track article...that IS super cool. Btw, you are awesome to listen to and learn from. Teachers need to be engaging to help people learn, you do a great job. Just my opinion.
Oh finally.. I always had problems with clutch .. finally one car with many clutches for a lifetime . Definitely buying .. finally someone heard my prayers.
The key question is how long will the clutches last. In this design these clutches are holding the full torque of the engine while engaging and there is no main clutch or torque converter to slip, particularly during starting or slow crawling. Also, since the clutch packs are between the gears, you can't make them too big either. I think that a design like this for a street car would have a very short lifespan. Good thing that nobody is actually going to be putting miles on these cars given their cost.
Yea, it would be nice to know what's actually happening to these technologies. With Koenigsegg's advancements, like the removal of camshaft and this smaller transmission, we could be expecting as much as 1/4 ton of weight reduction. It would be a real shame not to see that permeate the whole market.
Paul Bautista yeah I hope to hear more updates from them soon. They claim to have put their actuators through hundreds of millions of cycles of testing with no measurable wear. Pretty impressive.
How do they even manage to develop these amazing technologies while they sell so few cars. Granted, the cars are expensive, but R&D is also incredibly expensive.
Christian doesn't just manufacture and sell cars. Apparently they also own several sister companies that hold several patents and do other stuff related to automotive technologies. For example, the FreeValve. And if I am not mistaken, the recent Top Gear videos also mentioned about them owning their own carbon fibre factory in Spain. Pretty sure they also invested in several other companies.
If you look closer, Christians solutions are at most time simple and straight forward to implement, like this gearbox is just a manual gearbox with clutches for every gear while other manufacturers spend billions on cutting corners and developing tech that guarantee a fixed point of failure
I’ve always wondered even as a younger kid if it would be possible to do this very thing with fixed gears... this is so cool, not having neutral between just instant shifts with no delay
So, it's like a basic automatic transmission, where any gear can be in theory selected after any other gear. Expect, when clutch is fully engaged, it's a direct connection, but with AT it's almost always a hydraulic connection. Or am I wrong?
Almost, except all modern automatic are based on planetary gearsets, and the powerflow and clutch schedule are cleverly arranged such that all sequential and double shifts are accomplished by opening one clutch pack and closing another. The Koenigsegg LST requires swapping two pairs of clutches on the 3/4 and 6/7 shifts, which makes the shift a lot more complicated to control properly to avoid engine flare or bogging down the engine. Also, modern automatics bypass the hydraulic torque converter fairly early on in the gear ranges with a torque converter clutch.
@@dubeights even the camless will have a limit. its still moving mechanical parts that can only take so much force before parts begin to stretch or fail.
I feel like most of the things Koenigsegg does is nothing earth shattering that other manufacturers don't already know but it's all obscenely expensive to implement at scale and that's it
My suggestion would be to check out TougeTime's MR2 Spyder autocross videos. He had an S2000 first but got better time on his 2ZZ MR2. You can do a 2ZZ swap video, and talk about the mid-engine balance, the air ducting for the read engine, reroute custom exhaust to make room for a trunk, discuss and the oil leak -> precat disintegration -> lift vacuum -> 1ZZ problem, you can talk about why toyota went with macphersons, and so much more!
If anyone remember that in a gear cycle where we have 21 gears, that cycle uses the same principle of gear changing. So Koenigsegg just used that principle from cycle & make everyone surprise.
ive been picturing a supercar transmission similar to this for ages im surprised it took this long, the idea to have clutches for each gear is pretty genious tho
Great explanation as always Jason! It's really fascinating they put clutches where syncromeshes are usually at. From what I see the clutch 4, 5, 6 are the busiest ones for daily city driving as they're responsible for 1st to 3rd gear changes. The least used one perhaps the clutch 3, if you don't shift beyond 6th gear you'd never use it. All this changes if you mainly run the car on circuit though. After a year of daily usage the clutch sets 4 - 6 would wear out the most, then perhaps the clutch 1? As there is no "flywheel" vs main clutch plate slip to start the car, like in standard car, would this gearbox let the clutch 1 fully grip then let the clutch 4 slip to start the vehicle? Or vise versa? Or both clutches slip to start the car? In a metaphor for bicycle, the 1st tier gear sets are like you have 3 gears on front derailer and 2nd sets are the rear 3 gears - hence gives you 9 possible different ratio combinations. 3 is a nice number, 2x2 wouldn't really work coz that only gives you 4 speeds, 4x4 is bit too excessive (16 speeds) but might work for trucks.
@@gertahnstrom784 First they build a car without a gearbox and just a huge torque converter, and now they build a car with a (kind of/possibly) automatic transmission without a torque converter. Can they please make up their minds? 😋
Yeah, so much talk about what just about any AT has. Are the only differences here that it's not planetary and has more clutch packs? Both being not that unique actually.
Fantastic videos mate, thank you very much for doing them. They're incredibly helpful for guys like me who really don't know all that much about cars/mechanics, but would sure love to learn!
Totally get it, simple!!! The 3 gears basically have 3 ranges or different ratios they can apply forces to, instead of all the movement of traditional style gear, they all stay mated, rotating at their own speeds but not applying force to the output shaft until the clutch packs for the selected gear are engaged. The gears are ALWAYS ready.. When movement is reduced, so is time!!!
Nice thinking outside the box - bike gearing analogies are perfect :) Wouldn't want the control unit in that thing to go on the blink and close all 7 clutches at the same time mind :o
The greatest benefit on this system is, you can switch up and down and overjump some gears like a converter Gearbox. But the newest converter gearboxes are doing this right now also very fast.
Engineers: How many clutches do you want in your transmission?
Koenigsegg: Yes
ALL OF THEM
Alot
I always say the "yes" in russian accent in my head.
I say it in a "normal" accent, but with a non-smiling, straightforward face, and say it relatively quickly
Keonigsegg: MOAR! CLUTCH!
That's quite the elaborate pun to get to the magazine!
Koenigsegg: Design a supercar that requires no transmission, only a torque converter to shame other hypercar manufacturers
Also Koenigsegg: Doubles down on the engineering and reinvents the transmission to again shame the competition.
NoFanSLand exactly
@amarjit singh definently the most potent hypercar out there
NoFanSLand. It’s amazing the amount of groundbreaking stuff they come up with at Koenigsegg. The major car companies probably have multi billion dollar development budgets and can’t even compete with a niche car maker for ingenuity!
@@David-lr2vi can't compete with Koenigsegg? To be fair, all these "innovations" Koenigsegg came up with (Free Valve, Lightspeed transmission, top mounted spoiler, etc) are pretty meaningless if the car is not performing.
For example every McLaren Senna with half the power or even a 488 pista is faster around tracks than these Koenigseggs.
Koenigsegg cars are brutal but way less refined, they often lack traction or stability, which makes them hard and not fun to drive unlike cars such as the Gt2rs, the pista or the Senna, which all are way less powerful but better performing.
Nik7 BKH. Well McLaren is another niche car maker. I understand that the whole package makes the car. My whole point is that it seems that it’s the small volume car makers that seem to be doing all the R&D these days and not the mainstream companies like Toyota, Honda, Ford, GM, etc.
Maybe the big car companies are all spending their R&D money on electric cars?
But is it as fast and smooth, as Jason switching from tech talk into promoting his article and back? 🤔
You said it so well
Impossibru
Haha, nice call
No.
It's faster. :D
Von Koenigsegg: Hey now, let's not get crazy. We're good, but not that good.
Why can't my university lecturers explain stuff this well?
Someone should just give you a medal already.
Dragan Postolovski
Love how he explains stuff
Or we can just kidnap/clone him and force the clones to teach at universities. It's for the better of humanity, victories eventually come at a small price.
I know this was more of a rhetorical question, but the gist of it is that your university professor doesn't really have to go above and beyond. He only needs to do his job, and if he isn't passionate, that's that. Jason on the other hand needs to be good at what he does, since his success in teaching is directly proportionate to how well his channel is doing, and thus his income.
The thing is your professors (need to) explain things more indepht, include more math etc.
Obviously it's harder to understand if it's more complex. These videos explain the basic principle in good detail, but that's it.
Todestuete yup exactly I agree. A lot of people miss/forget that. He explains the basic concept. But it will always be harder when we have to go into the math and go more in depth.
Normal car person: I burnt my clutch
Koenigsegg car person : I burnt one of my clutches not sure which one.
Ha, fun to think about. You could actually figure it out by trying the different gear pairs, and seeing which individual clutch didn't work based on the three forward speeds that rely on it.
Automatics have multiple clutches
@@EngineeringExplained I'm sure they have sensors to find out which clutch/gear is failed
@@EngineeringExplained
Haha get woooooshed, mate.
@@dank7491 he didnt he understood the joke as he said "Ha funny to think about" than explained how the problem can be solved also you wrote too many O's Baka
9:28
"So you're on the highway cruising, you want as much power as possible"
Yeah, to undertake that truck hogging the left lane @ 55 mph, being in a 1600 hp Koenigsegg I would need just that
Coffee Pjesht nah, it’s so that when you see someone come flying up on you in a car they think is fast and you want to show them what fast really means. Or, when you want to pass that person who is causing your lane to go significantly slower than the passing lane so you can catch that opening.
@@dj7291993 It's definitely for dick waving. Nothing else on the road can outpull a 1600hp Koenigsegg dropping into its peak powerband in 2ms
Granted Koenigsegg are always playing around with technology that might be implemented in normal cars. They've been working on their freevalve technology for a few years now which (like the transmission) make the engine smaller and more efficient. This transmission could easily be implemented in other cars.
@@brynclarke1746 trust me there's plenty of modified street racing cars out there that's faster
When the light switches from green to yellow!
It's a shame they focused too much on how to make a 7 clutch car instead of adding another 400hp, make it an even 2000hp with maybe just 5 clutch?.
For this reason I'll stick with my Prius.
Dual clutch transmission is better that single clutch transmission
Koenigsegg: hold my beer
"The more the better right?"
This is the best comment yet....
hold my gear
so seven cluthc is better then duel for the five time :D
Hold my *meatballs
7:11 Wow wow easy buddy, you can't start speaking fluent italian in the middle of the video
Deliziosa!
How long will it take before someone mixes that with some peter griffin arguing in italian?
im dead lmfao
This comment.... hi fu king la rious. XD
Funniest thing i've read in a long time
But how are they gonna fit 7 clutch pedals on the floorboard?
:-)
xD
4 of the clutch pedals will be put into the passenger foot well so that the passenger can also experience the car
It really is a spider car
😂😂😂😂😂
Apparently Koenigsegg has a cheat code to close all clutches
That unlockes warp drive mode
Pretty neat
More like nose dive mode
😂😂😂😂😂
Ultimate trans break for drag racing haha. All gears lock and trans both in forward and reverse all at once
Epic!!!
Wouldn't that activate reverse + all forward gears = stall the car? ;)
You know what's more insane than this technology? Engineering Explained's informative content yo.
You know what's actually insane? Konigsegg figured out how to apply a mountain bike's gearing concept to handle 1600hp.
@@Ribbityibzki I don't recall many mountain bikes using clutches tho ... :D
@@kenkalajdzic not the clutches, but the gearset.
What's more insane than this technology? Any consumer ignorant enough to buy it!😰
Beastly Buick V6 It’s actually ignorant to not buy it. The people who have the chance to buy it can resell it and make crazy amounts of profit. This type of car resells for 2 to 3 the original purchase price.
Christian: 7 clutches.
Engineer: you mean gears.
Christian: No clutches.
Engineering: ah sh!t.
This is the most eductional video about cars in this channel
As far as I remember it was just the opposite.
Engineer: 7 clutches
Christian: you mean 7 gears.
Engineer: no, I had my meds, 7 clutches and it works.
Christian: you are right, it works /someone please check his meds box before I give it a green light/
Engineer: What are you looking at on my desk? Yes my pc is unplugged but the ZPM works just fine... Check out this gearbox, this one is cool! :-)
I'm in for a new clutch.
"Which one?".
hitlersmissingnut all of the above
So your the one they call Hitlers missing nut
Yes.
supersonic118 boi damn didn’t notice it till u mentioned it :). ,I hav a habit of reading majority of comments, and some can be interesting.
“Well sir, we’re having a special today. For every three clutches you replace, we’ll throw in the fourth for free. That’s 8 clutches for the price of 6!”
Im studying mechanical engineering at DTU in Denmark, one of our teachers helped koenigsegg building this transmission. He told us that the biggest challange with this transmission was that the gears had to be very thin because of all the clutches. Most computer programs said the transmission was completly impossible to design. The tolerances in this transmission is extremely tight, and also the expected lifetime is not that high :D
He propably lied cuz Koenigsegg haven't said anything about it being bad in durability. The latest video about the gearbox litterly says it has very low wear of the gears and clutches.
Either way it’s a revolutionary feat in engineering and it’s too bad this was developed in the tail end of ICE era of automotive technology (although I don’t fully believe ICE is as close to being phased out as everyone wants us to believe, it is inevitable) I truly hope koenigsegg will license this to other manufacturers so us as simpletons will get to experience this. This has long been dream by car manufacturers and enthusiasts alike. Bravo, damn swedens put a perpetual watch in a transmission
But that can be resolved with engineering new or better material
Compared to a Minivan, lifespan may be short, but if it regularly transmits 1000 hp, a shorter lifespan is acceptable.
Sold my Honda S2000 for a Koenigsegg
Basically an even trade! Only had to put 2 million down!
@@EngineeringExplained That's what i call a bargain!
Gamma Light
Jason: Mr. Koenigsegg, i’ve come to bargin!
Von Koenigsegg: *_End This!_*
Wrong channel. I think you were looking for Vehicle Virgins
Engineering Explained $1 per sub. fair enough.
"we're gonna go 9th to 2nd, just to demonstrate that"
goodbye pistons
Hello unintentional block porting.
Wut? I do that in games and the engine just powers through it. ??? Explain please.
Well if you're in 9th for fuel economy then go to 2nd for power it's fine. The new Corvettes do this all the time.
Youre supposed to go from 9th to R for racing
@@theenzoferrari458 well you see if you're in 9th gear and you want to go to 2nd gear, 9+2 is 13, which is 2 digits and a car can't handle that much digits.
in the game, the number overflows and loops back around to 1st gear, so its fine.
If all subs put down just $1 than Jason could make a video reviewing OUR Jesko.
I'd even let you drive it!
Engineering Explained
Deal!
I'm in :-)
I'm in, too. But be warned. If everybody of your 2.2M subscribers gets 5 Minutes of driving time, the car needs to operate non-stop for 21 years. Better get a dedicated pit crew, a dependable fuel supplier and a ton of tyres.Edit: But you might get a couple of world records: Highest number of people crowdfunding one car. Highest number of people driving one car. Reaching 1 Million kilometers/miles in the shortest possible time with a single car. And many more :-)
you'd need $1.50/person and many people may not donate so it could make it go up to $2.00/person
Remember some years ago there were a lot of people saying that Koenigsegg made cars with highly tuned and modified engines and not much more than that... Well it's been time I don't hear (read) those type of comments anymore. Koenigsegg proves itself more and more everytime.
It's a mystery that a very low production car company can actually innovate in such an expensive R&D high tech area like this. Most "bespoke" manufacturers have no choice but to just use other people's parts. Even Rolls-Royce used GM transmissions. Amazing.
The difference being is that cars like Rolls-Royce are going to driven unlike the Koenigsegg which are garage queen due to how long it takes to get any repaired when the cars break down which happens frequently. Most of the technology koenigsegg uses has already been experimented by other automakers. There’s a reason they didn’t use said technology mostly because the difficulty of mass production, too little improvement over existing designs, or being unreliable.
@@vablo7198
Actually, with fewer engineers, you can concentrate on the important design features. With a 100 engineers, you get too many opinions and a mediocre all-round design (does not excel at any one thing).
@@abes3925 i can tell you no one else did this, or the Freevalve system, or the transmissiin they use in the Regera.
@@R4M_Tommy you're right about not having the Free valve in a production car. But we had protype engines running on the same concept in the 90s at Navistar. Unfortunately controllers weren't fast enough at the time to do it reliably for hundreds of thousands of miles.
@@abes3925that is all BS lies from u. Koenigsegg's has never broke down without an driver error being the reason like reving the car as soon as u start it. Koenigsegg uses billet aluminium blocks litterly more durable than the W16 from Bugatti.
This kind of reminded me of bicycle gears. You have something like three chainrings on the front sprocket, and something like six cogs on the rear. A combination between which chainring and cog you are using decides the speed of your bike.
Koenigsegg just made the fastest _________. (Answer: everything)
vibrator
Robot cat girl
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@@ValentineC137 NEVS and Koenigsegg created a joint venture on 29th January: "partnering up to develop a product for new and untapped segments, leveraging both of the companies’ strengths." This might mean a fully electric Koenigsegg. :D
They looked at a bike transmission and were like:
"Damn, i wish i had that many gears"
Cracked Emerald yeah. I was literally coming to the comments to see if anyone saw this as well.
Until you realize that modern bikes have 12 speed drivetrains
@@Owmarsh12 lamo yeah all of them are one by 12
I presume that's exactly what was inspiring the engineer that came up with the idea. Because CvK did mention and compare it with bicycle gears.
One clutch: slow
Two clutches: faster
Koenigseggegesgesgesge: GIVE EVERY GEAR A CLUTCH NOW
She was great. Swimming with the sharks. She was the white one
😂😂😂😂😂
Hahahahaha
give every gear TWO clutches! (except reverse)
@@lucywucyyy According to the whiteboard there already is! (Reverse included.)
Bugatti engineers: Write that down! WRITE THAT DOWN!
@Amarjit Singh not even a official record and they would get smoked on a track
@Amarjit Singh i think transmissions doesnt affect top speed but acceleration correct me if im wrong
8:49 Nice self-plug in the Road & Track magazine. That is so awesome!!!
Plug smoother than that 9th to 2nd downshift.
😂😂😂bet it's smother than koenigsegg transmission.
biker: look at my clutch pack
koenigsegg: that's cute
You can literally read the excitement off Jason's face. Thank you so much for such an amazing video and explanation. You the man
Ha, thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
Literally figuratively ahh what’s the difference
It amazes me how Koenigsegg and Rimac keep making these innovations despite being the smallest companies in the industry
Watch Geek it does feel surprising at first but if it’s anything like the IT industry it’s the very reason(being small) they have such fast innovation cycles. Of course the prerequisite for that to work is that they really know what they are doing. And they do.
Combining both the best stuff about single clutch and dual clutch, having 9 gears, shifting incredibly fast, all while being incredibly light. Christian and his team are a bunch of geniuses. And also major props to you. Beautifully explained. You and PapadakisRacing are the only RUclips channels I watch every video from.
Not that i am some enlightened being or anything like it but what most people don't realize is that when you pay millions for a Koenigsegg you are not paying for a car, you are paying for a Van Gogh on wheels, whereas instead of a painting, you get a machine engineered to art.
It's diagnostic manual might just come with a single fault code,
PXXXX: Replace transmission assembly
😂
Fly car back to Koenigsegg factory!
It would actually. Nobody knows how to work on this besides them lol
You really had to quote my Evo's manual, didn't you? :'(
Luckily it isnt a kia with an expected lifetime mileage of 200k
Thanks for a brilliant video! Koenigsegg is leaps and bounds ahead of everyone with their incredible engineering, and you did a great job of explaining how the LST functions.
very informative and in depth! great video jason!
AAAHHHHHH I read that article!!! I totally almost passed this video because of how well you explained it in the article! 👌
So it's basically like a 21 speed bicycle 3x7 rather than a traditional gearbox being 1x7?
That's a very interesting way of putting it.
I hope you realize how brilliant you are.... wow
Yes, but with clutches. Lots of clutches.
No it's not. It's 3x3 giving 9 speeds.
@@mcplutt dude... I bet he well knows that. But a bicycle has 21 gears in most cases.he was referring to this fact
Wow, this was pretty informative. I was wondering if you could do a video on specifics on the clutch packs on the Jesko (clutch packs on modern transmissions period, actually)? I know it uses solenoids and all, I think it would be a cool video if you were to dig deeper in the differences and benefits/drawbacks to this component.
I’m starting my Mechanical Engineering undergrad this fall and these videos r really helpful!
You are not seeing any of this but prepare for materials science, elasticity, mechanisms, thermodynamichs (heat transfer) ...
Lluis Fargas López yes I’m aware that’s the bulk of it but I’ve already taken intro to design and engineering foundations and gear ratios, torque, and mechanical adv are all big topics
@@mohamedhussein5190 i see you are an enthusiast. You will get some fun fore sure if you don't worry to much about marks and try to enrolle in sone extra curricular activities. Right now I'm into the design of the refrigeration system for the batteries of an electric competition motorbike. Thought what I've liked the most are structures I have started to find some fun in the thermodynamics world and simulations with cae programs.
Hey this is actually how I thought an automatic transmission worked when I was 13! Cool to see actually be a thing now.
7:11 Dr. John A. Zoidberg would be proud. 🦀
lol
Crab crab crab!
So each clutch is able to pass 1600 HP... mind blowing !
This is one of the things that separate hypercars from insanely moded 1000+ hp cars.
Yes but those cars dont need all this.
A 700hp Foxbody Mustang can run 9s
Same as a 690whp/750+ hp 720s can
Over engineering isnt really necessary
@@tcroft2165 you think race shop built cars
By pro drivers like larry larson are not
On par with this? This guy started out
The same way. From scratch
@@tcroft2165
Now use the C7 ZR1 for example. Has
Out lapped the 720s on track like V.I.R
While also running low 10second 1/4
Mile times and also weighs 3600 ibs
Plum_Crazy 1992
What exactly is over engineered on the LST?
It’s small, simple, weights 90kg (200lbs), doesn’t even need a flywheel and can handle 1600HP.
@@Conservator. it's 90kg, not 9kg
My favorite educational youtuber talking about my favorite vehicle manufacturer! This day just got way better thank goodness
As an automotive engineering student this is just baffling. Koenigsegg revolutionizes so many things in automotive technology which has been somewhat the same for a hundred years..
I'm assuming this has been thought of but the complexity and price has been a factor. A DCT is already 20-30k, can't imagine what this will cost.
30 years. 100 years is stretching it.
As an HET, all modern large equipment uses this style of transmission/gearbox, nothing new.
as an automotive engineering student.. you should know this is simply a traditional automatic gearbox with cog gears instead of planetary. im actually worried about the future of automotive engineering if you think this is baffling or revolutionary.
pop quiz: explain how this gearbox operates fundamentally differently than the automatic in a '69 chev? you cant. its just a few extra gears, and the gears are shaped differently
How does Koenigsegg handle the 3/4 and 6/7 shifts, especially with clutch overlap for continuous power delivery? Those two involve swapping not one but two pairs of clutches - shifting one sub-transmission a step up and shifting the other down. All modern multi-clutch automatics involve only a single clutch-to-clutch swap for every sequential and double shift to avoid engine flare or bogging down the engine.
Timing.
Props for getting that article in Road and Track!
I love how passionate you are and how interesting you can make a transmission appear to be!
But IT IS interesting! Haha
This somehow reminds me of a mountain bike gears, only with clutches and more complexity.
Exactly what I was thinking.... I respect Christian von Koenigsegg for his willingness to think outside the box. He brings something new with every new model
Same
Yeah same.
But obviously your not gonna be able to unleash 1600 bhp on a mountainbike set-up
That chain will probably snap before you can blink.
Christian Koenigsegg mentioned mountain bikes too in one of his interviews
great job as always, yoru videos always make it very easy to understand. Your diagram is so good that you didn't even need more of the video because as soon as I saw the diagram, in less than a minute I understood how it worked
park is easy😀 close all clutches
You only need to close two on the same shaft...
And I bet this thing is gonna blow up often... all it takes is one clutch to fail and locka and it's over... (although, clutches usually slip with they fail, so maybe it's not such a problem).
Woosh
@Deadlyguy135 i think you need pressure to open them
@@mikkihintikka7273 in dual clutch transmissions they are pressure _closed_ (unlike on a manual, where the clutch is pressure _opened_ ), it's a safety feature. I guess it's the same with the königsegg. For park you only need one actuator and a notch in the output shaft.
@@mikkihintikka7273 yes, like on a motorcycle or manual trans car traditionally; but with so many clutches in this design(7 counting reverse) where most of them have to be open(5 open and only 2 closed for forward gears, and 6 open for reverse) it would seem better if normally they were all open in a 'resting' state ... a car or motorcycle uses springs to hold the clutch closed at rest, but here you could just use a solenoid to close it at will?
- I wish he would have said how they operated the clutches in the video
I'm really glad you do journalism outside of RUclips. This is a great platform and all but it's not exactly predictable in the long run
Once you draw it out, it looks so evident, why did nobody think about this before?
cost.
It's like gears in a mountain bike 🚲
But true: some of these clutches (if not all) have to deal with enormous torqe.
All of them must be actuated in some way (oil pressure?)
They have thought of it before. My 1992 Honda Accord's transmission works the same way.
I knew there was a reason I wanted that issue of road and track! I lost it at the first airport, flew to my destination and bought another copy at that airport. Yet again I lost the magazine. When I returned to my home airport I bought it again and brought it home. I didn't see that article was written by you!
Did you lose your car keys too?
@@mcplutt Surprised I didn't to be honest..
Corvette owner: "I had to replace my transmission and it cost what I make in a month!"
Jesko owner: "Wow that sucks huh" rolls eyes
Probably costs what corvette owner makes in a year
Whoever owns either vehicles should be too bothered with the repair bill, considering the very cost of their vehicles.
dude thats cool. ive been reading road and track for 25+ years. im 35. that's a great milestone to hit! dont know if it pays well but your at least famous enough to be resourced by major recognizable company's!! good job dude
I'm constantly amazed how Koenigsegg manage to come up with such amazing engineering all the time, such a small company but their tech is ahead of the big boys like Ferrari
Road & Track article...that IS super cool. Btw, you are awesome to listen to and learn from. Teachers need to be engaging to help people learn, you do a great job. Just my opinion.
*Apple: iPod*
*Koenigsegg* no u (UPOD)
That's it, get out! XD
Based on the fact that most of the times, the abbrevation is chosen before you think what it may mean, this sounds extremely realistic :D
Oh finally.. I always had problems with clutch .. finally one car with many clutches for a lifetime . Definitely buying .. finally someone heard my prayers.
Get an 86/BRZ/FR-S! Great community with a ton of available mods. Would love to see one torn down with your engineering expertise!
Yes! And throw a turbo under the hood! 👍
The key question is how long will the clutches last. In this design these clutches are holding the full torque of the engine while engaging and there is no main clutch or torque converter to slip, particularly during starting or slow crawling. Also, since the clutch packs are between the gears, you can't make them too big either. I think that a design like this for a street car would have a very short lifespan. Good thing that nobody is actually going to be putting miles on these cars given their cost.
Are there any updates, latest developments on their FreeValve research?
FreeValve doesn't work, its purely a gimmick
Yea, it would be nice to know what's actually happening to these technologies. With Koenigsegg's advancements, like the removal of camshaft and this smaller transmission, we could be expecting as much as 1/4 ton of weight reduction. It would be a real shame not to see that permeate the whole market.
China is the only other country mass producing the first consumer friendly freevalve engines from koenigsegg
@@Varadiio FreeValve isn't going to happen, its not useful at all...
Paul Bautista yeah I hope to hear more updates from them soon. They claim to have put their actuators through hundreds of millions of cycles of testing with no measurable wear. Pretty impressive.
Wether or not they did it this is among the most comprehensive walk throughs of this theme, very clear and concise, deserves its own video.
How do they even manage to develop these amazing technologies while they sell so few cars. Granted, the cars are expensive, but R&D is also incredibly expensive.
Definitely very impressive
Christian doesn't just manufacture and sell cars. Apparently they also own several sister companies that hold several patents and do other stuff related to automotive technologies. For example, the FreeValve. And if I am not mistaken, the recent Top Gear videos also mentioned about them owning their own carbon fibre factory in Spain. Pretty sure they also invested in several other companies.
If you look closer, Christians solutions are at most time simple and straight forward to implement, like this gearbox is just a manual gearbox with clutches for every gear while other manufacturers spend billions on cutting corners and developing tech that guarantee a fixed point of failure
@@thapelomashaomasemola7922 Sometimes, yes. Good point.
But they do almost everything in house apart from the tires. Not even the big ones do that
I’ve always wondered even as a younger kid if it would be possible to do this very thing with fixed gears... this is so cool, not having neutral between just instant shifts with no delay
Dr.-Emmett-Brown-voice: "Where we are going we don't need .... Shifting Transmissions!" *flies into the future*
;)
Buy a Honda Beat :)
They're ubelievable fun and the E07A MTREC sounds amazing!
Normal Homosapiens: Single Clutch Transmission
Fast Homosapiens: Dual Clutch Transmission
Koenigsegg: sEVeN cLuTcH tRaNsMisSiOn
😂😂😂😂😂
❤️
@CraZy Jay complexity, reliability, and price, maybe?
So, it's like a basic automatic transmission, where any gear can be in theory selected after any other gear. Expect, when clutch is fully engaged, it's a direct connection, but with AT it's almost always a hydraulic connection. Or am I wrong?
Almost, except all modern automatic are based on planetary gearsets, and the powerflow and clutch schedule are cleverly arranged such that all sequential and double shifts are accomplished by opening one clutch pack and closing another. The Koenigsegg LST requires swapping two pairs of clutches on the 3/4 and 6/7 shifts, which makes the shift a lot more complicated to control properly to avoid engine flare or bogging down the engine. Also, modern automatics bypass the hydraulic torque converter fairly early on in the gear ranges with a torque converter clutch.
when you shifted from 9th to 2nd i could hear the valves floating. lol.
Not if they pair it with their camless valve system thing 😬
Yeah it's silly, the engine needs time to rev match anyway.
@@dubeights even the camless will have a limit. its still moving mechanical parts that can only take so much force before parts begin to stretch or fail.
After watching your videos, i became a great fan of koenigsegg
Me:S2000 for a miata,that's foolish.
Jason: Hold my beer 😂
I feel like most of the things Koenigsegg does is nothing earth shattering that other manufacturers don't already know but it's all obscenely expensive to implement at scale and that's it
Super brilliant explanation, Thanks you
My suggestion would be to check out TougeTime's MR2 Spyder autocross videos. He had an S2000 first but got better time on his 2ZZ MR2.
You can do a 2ZZ swap video, and talk about the mid-engine balance, the air ducting for the read engine, reroute custom exhaust to make room for a trunk, discuss and the oil leak -> precat disintegration -> lift vacuum -> 1ZZ problem, you can talk about why toyota went with macphersons, and so much more!
Why don’t they make a dual clutch manual? Just four pedals and two gear knobs right? 🤔
I was thinking about this the whole time. You could probably actually do it with just 3 pedals still. Clutch pedal releases all clutches.
Nah mate, next generation of this transmission will use 7 clutch pedals and 7 gear knobs, 2 is for noob 😂
If anyone remember that in a gear cycle where we have 21 gears, that cycle uses the same principle of gear changing. So Koenigsegg just used that principle from cycle & make everyone surprise.
Hey Jason could you please make a video on CVTs? The last one you made was almost 2 years back. We would like to know more about the CVTs.
Cheers!!
Sensational video. Sets the bar higher than ever. I’d take a manual over any of these transmissions.
Is it me, or are Koenigsegg engineers just making the ultimate car?
ive been picturing a supercar transmission similar to this for ages im surprised it took this long, the idea to have clutches for each gear is pretty genious tho
Your clutch switching moves have a striking resemblance to Dr. Zoidberg's mating dance signs. 🦀
I paused afterwards at 7:20 to look for this comment, and I found it. Thanks, im not alone in these thoughts.
Haha, well said.
the way you connected the main topic with commercial was amazing!
Manual transmission and rear wheel drive...
Honda NSX!!! Complete the Honda history
@Ursus_VF Ursus_VF if by better you mean faster than you're wrong
Great explanation as always Jason! It's really fascinating they put clutches where syncromeshes are usually at.
From what I see the clutch 4, 5, 6 are the busiest ones for daily city driving as they're responsible for 1st to 3rd gear changes. The least used one perhaps the clutch 3, if you don't shift beyond 6th gear you'd never use it. All this changes if you mainly run the car on circuit though.
After a year of daily usage the clutch sets 4 - 6 would wear out the most, then perhaps the clutch 1? As there is no "flywheel" vs main clutch plate slip to start the car, like in standard car, would this gearbox let the clutch 1 fully grip then let the clutch 4 slip to start the vehicle? Or vise versa? Or both clutches slip to start the car?
In a metaphor for bicycle, the 1st tier gear sets are like you have 3 gears on front derailer and 2nd sets are the rear 3 gears - hence gives you 9 possible different ratio combinations. 3 is a nice number, 2x2 wouldn't really work coz that only gives you 4 speeds, 4x4 is bit too excessive (16 speeds) but might work for trucks.
So...
Is it basically non-planetary automatic trans?
Basically.
With no torque converter...
@@gertahnstrom784 First they build a car without a gearbox and just a huge torque converter, and now they build a car with a (kind of/possibly) automatic transmission without a torque converter. Can they please make up their minds? 😋
Yeah, so much talk about what just about any AT has. Are the only differences here that it's not planetary and has more clutch packs? Both being not that unique actually.
Congrats on the article in Road and Track! Awesome video as usual!
They probably making the best car on earth
That's already been confirmed before this.
I wanted to understand their multi clutch transmission and your explanation was so easy and good. That was awesome. Thank you!
Get a Viper, Jason. It's RWD and manual so it fits your requirements.
My mom has a 370Z spider with the 6 speed manual and it is SO much fun to drive on a nice summer day with the top down!
And the 90kg the transmission weighs includes the Diff, starter motor, clutches and the flywheel(as there is none) :)
Fantastic videos mate, thank you very much for doing them. They're incredibly helpful for guys like me who really don't know all that much about cars/mechanics, but would sure love to learn!
Don't honda used to have 5 clutch plates for their 5 speeds auto? Thus giant
Why does the clutch have to be the same size as a normal one?
Totally get it, simple!!! The 3 gears basically have 3 ranges or different ratios they can apply forces to, instead of all the movement of traditional style gear, they all stay mated, rotating at their own speeds but not applying force to the output shaft until the clutch packs for the selected gear are engaged. The gears are ALWAYS ready.. When movement is reduced, so is time!!!
Your videos helped me a lot into preparation of BAJA India
Thank u very much
Yet another outstanding explanation Jason! You are top of my shelter in place bing watching list!
6/12 - Jason sells S2000 claiming wants a car with a manual...
6/19 - Jason puts deposit on A90/Mk5 Supra like everyone else.
Blechhh
Nice thinking outside the box - bike gearing analogies are perfect :) Wouldn't want the control unit in that thing to go on the blink and close all 7 clutches at the same time mind :o
Bro, weren't you like 21 like 4 years ago? How did you travel through time and became 42?
The greatest benefit on this system is, you can switch up and down and overjump some gears like a converter Gearbox. But the newest converter gearboxes are doing this right now also very fast.