Beetle inspires new diesel technology

The Swedish Energy Agency has awarded SEK 6.8 million to a radical new principle for fuel injection in diesel engines. The technology is being developed at Lund University in collaboration with Swedish Biomimetics 3000. The technology resembles the way the Bombardier beetle sprays an irritating liquid mist on ants, frogs,...

Fuel cells pave the way for cars of the future

After the electric car and the plug-in hybrid come the fuel cells, according to Patric Jannasch, Professor of Polymer Technology at Lund University. The technology, which was hyped in the late 1990s but has since been put on a backburner, is now close to commercialisation. “Internationally, the car industry is...