Vulcano Fuel For Koenigsegg Hypercars

Koenigsegg is all about pushing the limits. Back in 2017, its Agera RS registered a new production car speed. Koenigsegg is also the first carmaker to build a cam-less engine (Freevalve) and Regera’s transmission-less Direct Drive system. Well, now Koenigsegg brings in the word Vulcano. What’s that about?

Recently, in an interview for Bloomberg, Christian von Koenigsegg made some confessions about how they are now playing around with high-voltage battery packs and some biofuel from semi-active volcanos. The scope is to come up with carbon neutrality.  According to Christian von Koenigsegg, Island has this technology and it invented it to cap the CO2 emission from volcanos. Later, it is transformed into methanol.

Christian von Koenigsegg explains that this methanol can be used for powering the plants that convert other fuels. It can also be used for powering the ship that is transporting that fuel and, in the end, there is completely neutral CO2 powering the car. 

According to Koenigsegg, volcanos produce 90% fewer carbon emissions than ordinary fossil fuels. Cars powered by this neutral CO2 could even clear up the atmosphere if having the right after-treatment systems.

Koenigsegg has hired former Tesla executive - Evan Hortesky, who will help in this project. The electrification process has already begun with Regera hybrid and Gemera. The latter uses a 2.0-liter turbocharged inline-three engine, with another three electric motors that reach, altogether, 1.700 hp.

Koenigsegg isn’t in a rush to build a fully electric hypercar, because of the extra weight of the battery packs that would affect performances. However, the carmaker will keep on experimenting and implementing whatever seems right at a given moment.

Koenigsegg is now developing a next-gen technology and promises to keep the competitiveness of its models, with a minimum environmental footprint.