In a new development, Koenigsegg subsidiary Freevalve AB has announced a new partnership with Chinese automaker Qoros Auto. The outcome of the partnership is continued development of Freevalve’s Pneumatic Hydraulic Electric Actuator (PHEA) tech and a new “Qamfree” engine for Qoros.
The engine – currently on display in Beijing – sees the camshaft and all associated components replaced by Freevalve’s PHEA tech. It allows the engine management system to have full control over each individual valve in terms of opening/closing position and timing throughout the whole combustion cycle.
In a statement, Koenigsegg described the tech as such: “could you imagine playing a piano with a both hands tied to the opposite ends of a broomstick? The ‘music’ produced would be quite unpleasant. Think of that piano as a car’s engine and the broomstick as a traditional camshaft. The arrival of Freevalve is like setting aside the broomstick and mastering the instrument by playing with individual fingers.”
Apart from greater control over the engine’s intake and exhaust valves, the tech offers other long-term benefits as well, particularly for the Chinese automaker. In the future, it will allow Qoros to deliver a powertrain that is smaller, lighter, more powerful but with enhanced fuel economy and at the same time with reduced emissions.
“We are both pleased and proud to have found such a willing industry partner as Qoros Auto to complete the transition of Freevalve’s PHEA technology from a working concept to a production application for passenger vehicles” said Urban Carlsson, CEO of Freevalve, in Beijing.
“We believe that one day in the very near future, the arrival of Freevalve PHEA technology will represent as big a transition, or bigger, than the move from carburetors to direct injection,” added Christian von Koenigsegg, founder and CEO of Koenigsegg and chairman of the board at Freevalve.
Looking to sell your car? Sell it with Carro.
Qampro..
this engine should be in the new p1..
But why?
Laugh at China summore. Tin milo la, ugly la, this la that la.
Meanwhile Proton need to beg govt to pay its supplier.
Perdana had to hold record as longest rebadge work ever.
In b4 Qoros just only buy 1 engine, take it apart, send to their suppliers, copy-pasta bulat bulat, mass pro at 10% cost, ignore complaints from Koenig cuz got protek from China & Israel/USA, winrar, get worshiped from MY foreign worshipers, huatla.
Remember, u heard it first from me.
Yes there is also tongkat and protektion, not only in bolehland
The only concern i have for chine brand car is the sparepart availability… Car is not a pakai buang stuff…
The truth is, Qoros’s sales are disappointing so far.
any auto write up did comparison on Freevalve vs MultiAir vs ???
I have not study much on multiair, but from what i have read, fiat multiair still uses camshaft to actuate the system. So the crank still has to drive the camshaft to compress the valve spring and actuator spring. Unlike freevalve. They completely remove the camshaft. I’m pretty sure they have sensors to actuate the solenoid. The solenoid is used to control the air flow to push the valve and pull it back up. So the solenoid is not actually drive the valve like the one u see in washing machine water inlet valve. The advantage is quite huge. It can be programmed to have any kind of lift and timing. It can run the atkinson cycle too
So next time, those electrical disruptors shot into car’s body like in the first Fast & Furious might just work to disable operation the solenoids…
Good tech. But sadly, soon we might say goodbye to one of the sexiest acronym ever – DOHC.
Qoros 3 actually the first Chinese vehicle to earn a full 5 star in a crash test. Quite a good car but the fact that it’s half-owned by Chery Automobiles and Israel Corporation makes it really far away from reaching Malaysian shores because of the latter one invested in Qoros.
Koneiseh when Qam to Malisea?
Something that proton should have considered before approaching Ricardo to help RnD new engines. With camshaft, cylinder head can be made smaller thus lighter.
Timing belt/chain is something of the past already.
I hope this cam-less can be implement in motor bike so that we can rev up to 20K RPM.
As long as don’t rev the engine with small muffler in middle of the night. Otherwise will find motor vandalized. With extreme prejudice.
Cool tech.
A rolling stone is worth two in the bush, thanks to this areiclt.