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Jaybird Skedattle
I wonder how these would work in our KIA

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Hyundai's New Spark Plug Safeguards The Future Of The Combustion Engine

While Hyundai is highly focused on the developing EV market, a radical new spark plug design from the South Korean manufacturer shows that it also wants to extract greater efficiency from the internal combustion engine. According to a patent found by CarBuzz at the US Patent and Trademark Office...
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Jaybird Skedattle
A little different here is the patent

https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/20230055431
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No it says you dont need anything extra

This Hyundai patent will enable actual twin-spark ignition from a single spark plug and achieves this goal with some really clever thinking. After taking a fresh look at the voltage conditions in an ignition coil's high-voltage side during a spark event, the engineers realized that there was an unused spike in the output voltage graph. That's when inspiration struck, and they added a second center electrode to a single spark plug to make use of this extra output spike.
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