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    Default Inside Koenigsegg: Reinventing the internal combustion engine.

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    ^ A brilliant new take on valves, and how that inter-relates to engines performance.
    I thought that was brilliantly cool. I never knew Koenigsegg had any money/budget for much of any sort of this R & D work, being such a small manufacturer.
    I've always been a HUGE Pagani & Koeni fan, but I sure can hold Koeni in a new light with stuff like this.
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    Yeah. In practice it's super simple and used in industry for yeeeaaars.

    4-20 milliamp signal, air source and like he said spring or air for the "seat" so the valve doesn't over reach.

    The compressed air idea is good.

    Any gas or vapour can do work when it's expanded. It'll work like (again old industry tech) steam or gas engines expanding in the cylinder. About time it's introduced in a passenger car! Lol
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