Nine Clutches, No Interruption: The Jesko Transmission Explained

A conventional dual-clutch gearbox pre-selects the next gear and swaps between two shafts. Koenigsegg's Light Speed Transmission holds nine gears on seven clutches and can move between any two ratios — third to seventh, ninth to fourth — with no torque interruption whatsoever.

The engineering cost is complexity; the reward is a gearbox that weighs 90 kilograms including its hydraulics and never hunts for the right gear, because every gear is instantaneously available.

Driving one recalibrates expectations. Downshifts under braking arrive as a single seamless event. It is the closest thing to a CVT's continuity with none of its detachment — and it is one reason Jesko allocations traded above list before the first customer car was delivered.