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 trio of electrical motors.

A brand new crop of electrical hypercars boasting outputs reaching as excessive as 2,000 hp have since emerged, together with the Lotus Evija whose 2,011-hp output makes it essentially the most highly effective manufacturing automotive on this planet.

Koenigsegg might 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 prospects to mark the completion of a plant growth to assist Gemera manufacturing, and that the corporate introduced on the occasion {that a} V-8 engine shall be provided as a substitute for the turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-3 that was introduced on the Gemera’s 2020 Geneva auto present debut.

Koenigsegg Gemera

In line with the web site, the V-8 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, when burning E85 gasoline. The three-cylinder will reportedly stay the usual choice and the V-8 made a $400,000 choice.

The electrical aspect of the Gemera’s powertrain can be the identical for each fuel 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 function within the Gemera, in addition to Koenigsegg’s personal inverter which the corporate has christened David. Powering the electrical motors is a 15-kilowatt-hour 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 line with Egg Registry, Koenigsegg may also add typical aspect mirrors to the Gemera as a substitute of a camera-based model as beforehand proven, to fulfill necessities within the U.S. The automotive may also reportedly be provided with an aerodynamics package deal dubbed the Ghost Package deal.

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