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We saw the concept version at last year"s show. This year, they"ve brought along the real thing: Internet, meet your new hero, the 1,500bhp, production-ready Koenigsegg Regera. Yep, that"s more power than the Bugatti ChironNot much has changed in the 12 months since we first met the Regera. Well, apart from the three thousand revisions Koenigsegg has made from the concept car to the production version you see above.The baseline then, is as follows: the Regera sits on a highly modified Agera chassis, significantly changed to accommodate a 4.5kWh battery pack able to discharge 525kW mounted in the centre of the car, which is 25kg lighter than the concept car"s battery.There"s a new high voltage AC charger, a smaller 800v compressor and a new compact, lightweight 800v DC/DC converter, which saves yet more weight.Then of course, comes the mighty 5.0-litre, twin-turbo V8 that sits proudly in the middle of the car, that together with the triplet of electric motors (one on each rear wheel, one on the crank), send 1,500 horses and 1,475lb ft of torque to the rear wheels. More power than that new Bugatti, and it"s not four-wheel drive. Nuts.The Regera features Koenigsegg"s Direct Drive" system in place of any regular transmission. From take off, a hydraulic coupling opens, and you power off purely on electric drive. Once it gains a few revs, the coupling begins to close, and the crank-mounted motor joins in to fill out the bottom part of the torque curve. For the production version, Koenigsegg has introduced a clutch-slip mechanism, that uses the hydraulic coupling to convert torque during fast acceleration.
Date written: 1 Mar 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 2355
We saw the concept version at last year"s show. This year, they"ve brought along the real thing: Internet, meet your new hero, the 1,500bhp, production-ready Koenigsegg Regera. Yep, that"s more power than the Bugatti ChironNot much has changed in the 12 months since we first met the Regera. Well, apart from the three thousand revisions Koenigsegg has made from the concept car to the production version you see above.The baseline then, is as follows: the Regera sits on a highly modified Agera chassis, significantly changed to accommodate a 4.5kWh battery pack able to discharge 525kW mounted in the centre of the car, which is 25kg lighter than the concept car"s battery.There"s a new high voltage AC charger, a smaller 800v compressor and a new compact, lightweight 800v DC/DC converter, which saves yet more weight.Then of course, comes the mighty 5.0-litre, twin-turbo V8 that sits proudly in the middle of the car, that together with the triplet of electric motors (one on each rear wheel, one on the crank), send 1,500 horses and 1,475lb ft of torque to the rear wheels. More power than that new Bugatti, and it"s not four-wheel drive. Nuts.The Regera features Koenigsegg"s Direct Drive" system in place of any regular transmission. From take off, a hydraulic coupling opens, and you power off purely on electric drive. Once it gains a few revs, the coupling begins to close, and the crank-mounted motor joins in to fill out the bottom part of the torque curve. For the production version, Koenigsegg has introduced a clutch-slip mechanism, that uses the hydraulic coupling to convert torque during fast acceleration.
Date written: 1 Mar 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 2355
