The cars of the future are not only low-energy and fossil-free, they are also online and continually updated. “ The Connected Car ” concept opens up opportunities for new methods of application and new business models. This could mean that we will see similar developments in the vehicle industry to...
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,...
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...
Traffic researchers at Lund University have concluded that vehicles should not drive faster than 30 km/h in urban areas, after analysing and compiling the research of recent years on speeds and sustainability. They have also analysed accidents involving pedestrians. This is the first study of its kind to be carried...
The climate change goals have been set. By 2030, all Swedish vehicles are to be free from fossil fuels and by 2050, Sweden is to have zero net emissions of greenhouse gases. But how are we going to reach the goals, and what impact will the transition have on the...
Electric cars have been in the pipeline for a long time – but they still represent less than one per cent of all cars sold in Sweden. Why is the electrification of the car market taking such a long time? And what is needed for the electric car to really...
