How this Tiny Motor is More POWERFUL than Your Car

Koenigsegg are used to making ridiculous hypercars with bonkers top speeds and minimum four-figure horsepower numbers.

However, they’ve now created an electric motor that makes 330bhp but is somehow smaller than my head. That is madness. Two of these motors with a single inverter will make 660bhp and weigh less than 85kg.

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This tiny bundle of power is the work of Swedish Hypercarmakers Koenigsegg. So how does it actually work?

The motor has been dubbed the ‘Quark’ which is actually a type of soft spreadable cheese and probably the noise a posh duck makes.

Unfortunately, that isn’t how it got its name. It’s much more complicated and scientific than that.
There’s no easy way to tell you the real definition of the term ‘Quark’, so I’ll just read it to you.
A Quark is ‘any of several elementary particles that are postulated to come in pairs (as in the up and down varieties) of similar mass with one member having a charge of +²/₃ and the other a charge of −¹/₃ and are held to make up hadrons’

Does that make sense to you? It doesn’t matter, let’s look at how it actually works.
The mystery that is magnetism is an important part of how electric motors work, and Koenigsegg have cleverly combined two methods to create the Quark E-Motor.
It uses something Raxial Flux, which sounds made up because it is. Koenigsegg got the name from a combination of ‘radial’ and ‘axial’ flux, which are two different ways that electric motors usually function.

The two terms refer to the direction in which the motor's permanent magnets create the magnetic field. The radial does it in a radial direction, so basically more circular. The axial does it along an axis and is more perpendicular.

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[OVERDRIVE.studios]

Can't just be me that wants to put one of these on a go-kart or something - imagine that!

[cemtexx]

With how Koenigsegg make everything as light as possible, I could imagine them becoming their own F1 team just to be instantly disqualified from the first race for making their car too light.

[crodles]

I wish they sold this as a unit… imagine all the engine swaps you could do with it…

[conor]

Imagine putting this engine into a motorcycle. The power to weight ratio would be insane.

[matthewbolton]

If youre going to do an apples to orange comparison for electrical vs a typical traditional combustion engine for weight vs output, it would be better to add the weight of the batteries to the elctrical motor and the fuel to the combustion because this will help with an overall comparison. Just my opinion

[DodoLands]

So small yet so powerful! I wonder how light and compact a 15hp motor would be. It would be a dream come true if we could use it as a 'plug and play' motor for a kayak, a motorcycle, a lawn mawer and, why not, even create electricity with a wind turbine.

[ryurc]

I've been messing with rc cars with brushless motors for a couple years now. They are absolutely insanely fast, even on 6s (3.4v per cell 6 cells) I know someone claimed one of the 1/5 scale brushless motors was 25 hp, about as big around as a Red Bull can, but a little shorter. The batteries last so much longer all the time. Eventually we will figure out how to store electricity more densely than with todays batteries.

[johnchalinder]

I'd love to adapt one of these to my mobility scooter.
Along with tank type treads, this should go just about anywhere.

[koenigsegg]

It actually has 2100 hp, but the power is split throughout the speed. In other words, it has 2 electric engines that assist TFG from 0 to 200 km/h and 2 other electric motors that assist the TFG from 200 to 400 km/h (not exactly this but I made it simple. I didn’t talk about the Direct Drive that has its own electric motor and stuff. Just wanted to say it’s more complicated than that). And the same goes for the torque.

[thesuplexguy]

This just proves how Koenigsegg is ahead of its competitors

[piccoloatburgerking]

This will be a big player and an influence in the automotive industry as a whole, i can't wait to see how this tech evolves in the coming ten to twenty years.

[flaagan]

Would be hilarious if Koenigsegg released their electric motor setup for hobbyists just to throw mud in Tesla's face.

[ABCDEFGHIJKELA...]

I've been bragging about this for a year now. It's going to game changing if it's tech trickles down to us normies before combustion is completely gone, the synergy between the two different power sources has got to be one of the best mechanical team ups ever created :D

[that-pixel_guy]

1.5 million dollar+ super car, that comes with 1700 hp, and 8 cup holders.

They’re already ahead of the game the have that many cup holders, having cup holders in a super car is just a straight flex

[MikeZ]

Koenigsegg is on the cutting edge. I can't think of any other current car manufacturers doing stuff like this. 8 cup holders, too!

[Scoutth]

I also really want them to release their Freevalve system so older cars can be much more efficient for gas, emissions, weight, and HP.

[shanehanson]

Wow, that size is amazing. For years I have been looking for an electric motor that has a bit more punch in a smaller package. That power is well above what I need, I hope in the future someone takes the tech and makes smaller electric motors for other applications.

[gljames]

if anyone is more in this topic, rotational and axial flux motors are essentially induction and reluctance motor and the raxial motor is just a hybrid between both which allows it to have a very good power to rpm curve based on the firmware controling the magnetic field. It's really fascinating stuff!

[alexanderm]

I want a de-tuned version of this on my motorcycle. Once they cheapen range guarantees, my heart is sold.

[fyaaeya]

it's a bit sad that the F1 power units are so strictly regulated cause I'd love to see such engines in the back of the F1 cars