2012-02-22 13.23
Automotive industry stirs to life
The automotive industry is stirring to life on many levels now. There is a realization that the future will require new business models and that the pace of today's technological progress will not...
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2012-02-22 13.20
2012 — A Year of Uncertainty
The way things go in Europe will affect the global economy. The focus for the moment is directed at Greece and how national bankruptcy can be avoided. The collapse of the Greek economy would have...
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2012-02-22 12.49
Sweden Lagging Behind
Of the 300,000 cars sold in Sweden in 2011, 178 were electric. There are 4 million vehicles registered in Sweden, of which 300 are electric. There are 4,000 electric cars in Norway.
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2012-02-22 12.34
Emissions in Europe by Manufacturer
Toyota cars released the lowest levels of CO2 in 2010, according to calculations based on 65 percent of cars sold within the EU. Toyota achieved 112g/km per car, followed by Fiat at 116 g, Citroën...
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2012-02-22 12.32
Brighter January
This January the Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) rose in Sweden from 48.9 percent in 2011 to 51.4. This may mean that the downward trend has slowed up and a certain economic upswing has begun....
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2012-02-22 12.29
Volvo Ups the Pace
Volvo Cars will increase the rate of production at its Torslanda factory when S 60 production moves from Ghent to Gothenburg. The XC 60 will continue to be made in Ghent, and the change is...
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2012-02-22 11.31
Reducing Friction
Friction in a car's engine and mechanical components consumes a great deal of energy. Friction can be reduced by up to 80 percent with new materials and new methods of machining bearing surfaces.
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2012-02-22 11.30
U.S. Car Industry Sees Light at End of Tunnel
The American car industry (GM, Ford, Chrysler) is beginning to pick up speed on the home market. The turnaround happened surprisingly quickly and is due to new, attractive models and an...
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2012-02-22 11.28
World Bank Warning
The world is facing the risk of a deeper crisis now than it did in 2008. Global growth has been written down by 1 percent to 2.5 percent, and the Eurozone is expected to recede 0.3 percent. During...
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2012-02-22 11.26
Americans Buying Cars Again
American car sales rose by 11.4 percent in January compared to the previous year. Sales for the month were the best since 2008 and point to an annual sales volume of 14 million cars, but there are...
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2012-02-22 11.23
Clean Motion in Lerum
Ana in Trollhättan will begin producing a light, three-seat electric moped for the company Clean Motion in Lerum. The electric bike — called Zbee — is built of composites for strength, lightness...
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2012-02-22 11.20
Semcon Gets a New CEO
Markus Granlund will take over as Semcon CEO from April 1. Current CEO Kjell Nilsson will become Chairman of the Board; Markus Granlund is currently deputy CEO at Semcon.
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2012-02-22 11.18
New Constellation Shows Interest in Saab
A new constellation consisting of Innovatum in Trollhättan, Fouriertransform, Semcon and Volvo Cars are interested in purchasing parts of Saab's Trollhättan factory to begin production of electric...
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2011-12-21 10.43
Port of Gothenburg — a competitive factor for swedish industry
Gothenburg has always been associated with shipping and the port. This is still true today even though port operations have changed. Back in the 1950s the central quays in the city were full of...
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2011-12-21 10.41
Industries disappearing
The global economic turbulence of the past few years has left its mark on trade and industry. Companies are searching for new customers and many in areas where they have not previously done...
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2011-12-21 10.38
New European collaboration for a strong automotive industry in West Sweden
Gothenburg received a visit from representatives from automotive clusters in Italy, France, Germany and Poland. They were here to start the Safe and Green Road Vehicles (SAGE) project.
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2011-12-21 10.36
Biogas Creates New Jobs
— Re-adjustment project behind BRC´s set-up. BRC Sweden´s conversion facility for biogas cars not only provides 50 new jobs, it also boosts Trollhättan´s eco-profile and its investment in...
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2011-12-21 10.31
Exciting program for Automotive Forum in Gothenburg
The Automotive Forum conference will be held at Lindholmen Science Park in Gothenburg May 30-31, 2012.
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2011-12-21 10.28
Automotive Sweden met Göteborg Energi´s R&D Director
Göteborg Energi (Gothenburg Energy) has been around for more than 150 years and today it´s west sweden´s leading energy company and provides an electricity grid, district heating, gas, district...
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2011-12-21 10.25
Major project for sustainable transportation
at Lindholmen Science Park
Vinnova is investing SEK 2,225,000 in three preliminary studies in the field of sustainable transportation, in which Business Region Göteborg is one of the participants. Closer Lindholmen, at...
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2011-12-21 10.20
Industrial research institute developes services for the automotive industry
We met Cristofer Englund and Kristoffer Lidström, both of whom are researchers in cooperative systems at the viktoria institute, an industrial research institute that develops and studies the...
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2011-12-21 09.56
THE iPHONE iCUT APP
A unique app for analyzing vibrations in cutting processes has been developed by scientists at the Production Technology Centre. iCut is the first in a planned series of products based on research...
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2011-12-21 09.55
Research in Sweden 2013 — 2016
In May of this year Minister for Education Jan Björklund invited a number of organizations to provide input and formulate proposals on strategies for the forthcoming research and innovation policy...
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2011-12-21 09.53
Scania joins Lindholmen Science Park
Lindholmen Science Park developed step-by-step to become what is today an unmistakable national center for important parts of Swedish research.
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2011-11-16 13.29
Hello, Emmanuel Piegay, Forum Coordinator...
...Truck and Bus World Forum 2011 in Lyon. What highlights would you like to bring forward at Truck & Bus World Forum this year? This 5th edition will focus on “Best practices for greater...
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2011-11-16 12.46
Ideal factory up for sale?
In 1946 ship owner Gustaf Thordén started the Uddevalla shipyard. He bought shipyard equipment from the USA, which had surplus capacity when World War II ended. Uddevalla Shipyard became the...
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2011-11-16 12.41
A lot to be gained from intelligent infrastructure
What good is it if you have a super-intelligent car but the road is flooded because someone was not keeping track of a pumping station? The question was put by Infracontrol CEO Johan Höglund.
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2011-11-16 11.11
Volvo Cars strengthens its brand
American Richard Montura has moved to Volvo Cars in Gothenburg to work on developing the company's brand. After having had a safety-conscious, somewhat restrained and frosty image, Volvo Cars is...
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2011-11-16 11.08
Scania slows down
Scania will reduce production by 10 to 15 percent from November 1, which means around 900 temporary positions will be lost. Operations affected in Sweden are in Södertälje, Oskarshamn and Luleå...
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2011-11-16 11.03
Steering wheel keeps watch
BMW is testing a system in which sensors in the steering wheel monitor driver health. Pulse and blood pressure are registered and if abnormal values are detected the car may be stopped.
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2011-11-16 11.02
USA auto sales continue their upswing
Car sales in the USA have increased this year by 10 percent. The increase continued in October and reached 8 percent. Chrysler is picking up speed in the USA and sales increased by 28 percent...
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2011-11-16 11.00
Professor Schellnhuber awarded the Volvo Environment Prize
Professor John Schellnhuber has been awarded the 2011 the Volvo Environment Prize. The professor is a world-leading research scientist in the complex research field that describes the things that...
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2011-11-16 10.56
New Chalmers lab
The Chalmers Virtual Development Laboratory is now open. Its objective is to strengthen collaboration between researchers and companies. Small companies gain access to equipment they lack...
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2011-11-16 10.54
Connecting Europe: new EU trunk transportation network
The commission has adopted a proposal to transform the existing patchwork of roads, railroads, airports and canals into a Trans-European transport network (TEN-T). Bottlenecks will be removed in...
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2011-11-16 10.52
AB Volvo Organiserar gets new organization
The biggest change will take place in the Volvo, Renault, Mack and UD Trucks truck operations. Sales and marketing will be divided into three regions that take care of all truck marketing, while...
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2011-11-16 10.49
AB Volvo slows down
AB Volvo has announced that 400 — 450 temporary workers will not have their contracts renewed next year. Volvo aims to react quickly whenever there is a risk of reduced volumes. So far this year...
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2011-11-16 10.47
Saab fights on
The creditors' meeting approved the composition and reconstruction efforts continue. Youngman and Pang Da now recommend two alternatives in which the two Chinese companies acquire 100 percent of...
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2011-11-16 10.44
Volvo Cars reports a loss
Volvo Cars reported an operating loss of SEK 736 million during the third quarter. The loss was anticipated as the company is currently in an intensive investment phase, and the third quarter is...
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2011-11-16 10.39
Subaru invests in Trollhättan
Subaru will start converting cars to run on LPG in Trollhättan creating jobs for 50 people. The cars will be sold in the Baltic and Nordic markets.
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2011-10-11 13.37
Swedish Engineering at IAA
For the first time a Swedish engineering company — Semcon — participated in the IAA in Frankfurt, the world's biggest auto show. Semcon has grown to significance on the German market and today...
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2011-10-11 13.33
New CO2 emissions figures
The European Environment Agency has published its 2010 figures for CO2 emissions for new automobiles in the 27 EU member states. This year 13.2 million autos were registered compared to 15.5...
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2011-10-11 13.28
Subsidies do not affect the sale of electric cars
The automotive intelligence provider Jato in the UK has studied how subsidies influence sales of electrical vehicles in Europe and has found that today such subsidies play no significant part in a...
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2011-10-11 13.26
Mixed news...
| Downgraded credit rating for FIAT | Volvo expanding in Iraq |  EU clears the way for MAN and Scania | BYD encounters financial problems |
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2011-10-11 13.07
Scania sponsors Olympics in Russia
| NOTE | Scania and Russian automaker GAZ will sponsor the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014. GAZ and Scania currently collaborate and Scania supplies bus chassis fitted with engines and...
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2011-10-11 13.06
Trucks move 85 percent of all freight
| NOTE | Forty years ago more than 50 percent of domestic freight in Sweden was carried by shipping. Today, trucks account for 85 percent, rail 11 percent, shipping 3.2 percent and air 0.4...
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2011-10-11 13.04
Diesel hybrids important
| NOTE | Analysts at the international consultancy Frost & Sullivan believe that diesel hybrids will grow in importance over the next 5 years in order for the EU is to achieve its CO2 emission...
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2011-10-11 12.59
Delicate balancing act
Western politicians and the heads of central banks perform delicate balancing acts when they make statements and present ideas in an attempt to reassure various players that the situation in the...
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2011-10-11 10.34
innovITS ADVANCE opens for business in the UK
innovITS ADVANCE opens for business in the UK and promises to change the shape of ITS and Telematics development. Europe ´s first purpose built independent facility for the development, testing...
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2011-10-07 14.14
Technology leads the way
We were eight journalists who were granted a one-hour interview with Honda CEO Takanabu Ito in connection with the Frankfurt Motor Show. We were ushered into a cool, quiet room away from the heat...
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2011-10-07 14.06
Hello Fredrik Sidahl...
As the newly appointed CEO for FKG, the Scandinavian automotive suppliers' association, you were immediately thrown into the lion's den. The media have been chasing you since day 1. How did that...
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