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Cars that drive themselves make life easier
HiQ is an IT and management consultancy firm which works by the motto 'simplifying people's lives'. Automotive Sweden met Anders Bengtsson and Linda Wahlström at HiQ in Gothenburg. Linda och Anders are worki...
Russia — the vast and exciting country not a million miles away
Malin Norén and I spent five days in Russia in October 2012. We were invited by Bo Andersson, the CEO of GAZ group, to go and visit their head office and factory in Nizhny Novgorod, their Moscow office and t...
Automotive growth is biggest for Semcon
- Interview with Markus Granlund, CEO of Semcon.Semcon is one of Sweden´s largest engineering consultancy firms. They have grown both organically and through acquisition, and are now one of the large global ...
Sunfleet's rapid growth
Gothenburg-based company Sunfleet is growing at a rapid rate. There are opportunities in abundance, but for the time being their focus is firmly on maintaining the level of quality and taking care of existin...
Strong Open Source growth for the automotive industry
"The growth we are seeing at the moment is wonderful. The type of software platform we supply is expected to go from having roughly one per cent of the market as it does now to 24 per cent in five or six yea...
Telematics help provide more effective public transport
These are busy times at Consat Telematics AB, with so many customers keen to buy their telematics solution for public transport.
Autoliv saves lives — an important yet difficult task
Jan Carlson believes that the next big area for development will be systems that can take over from the driver at a more advanced level, at higher speeds. Automotive Sweden met CEO Jan Carlsson.
More car software — good news for Arccore
"The way we see it, the amount of software in cars is only going to increase, so for our part the trend is going in completely the right direction." These are the words of Johan Ekberg, CEO of Arccore AB, wh...

2013-02-28
Electric cars emit CO2
VW calculates emissions from Golf class cars running on economical diesel, plug-in hybrid technology and pure electricity. CO2 emissions from manufacturing are also taken into account, and the cars are assumed to run on Europe mix electricity, i.e. with a high proportion of electricity produced from fossil fuels.
2013-02-28
VW invests in gas
Sales of diesel are falling and VW will be investing more in gas propulsion. VW believes that gas will become more available. Natural gas, shale gas, biogas and e-gas (gas from electricity) will become available in greater quantities.
2013-02-28
KPMG report shows who the winners are
The auditing firm KPMG asked 200 managers in the vehicle industry in 31 countries how they see the future of the car industry. The answer is that they believe the internal combustion engine will be the mainstay for a long time to come, and this is where car companies are investing most of their R&D.
2013-02-28
Hyundai aims to be fuel cell vehicle leader
Toyota took the hybrid, Renault took the electric car, and Hyundai wants to be the 'owner' of the fuel cell concept — at least as far as trademarks are concerned. A number of countries are now beginning to prepare for fuel cell operation of vehicle fleets. The leaders are Norway and Denmark.
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