10 years, the camshaft will "disappear"

Camshaft technology will disappear within 10 years, it is an affirmation of the CEO Koenigsegg.

Not only Koenigsegg, there are many other car manufacturers also are ambitious invented a unused engine camshaft

In the hope of changing the automotive industry, at present, the Swedish supercar manufacturer is conducting development and testing of an engine block does not use camshaft. In this type of engine, each cylinder will have the ability to work individually rather than adhere to a preset mode of the ignition system on a traditional engine. If these predictions come true Christian, the traditional internal combustion engine in the future will be full overhaul.

Although application Koenigsegg is not no camshaft engine on any production or demo models of the company, but this system has been installed for test Saab 9-5 models with a range of more than 60.000km within 2.5 years and not have any errors occur.

Koenigsegg confirmed that, compared with a traditional four-cylinder engine, the new engine system will be smaller and lighter also owns power levels and torque increased by 30%, while the consumption reduced by 30% and emissions by 50%.

Not only Koenigsegg, there are many other car manufacturers also are ambitious invented a camshaft engine does not use, including BMW, General Motors, Ricardo, Lotus, Renault, Ford and Valeo. Fiat also working on electric variable valve system - hydraulic in its Multiair engine line.