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A diesel-electric powertrain can give capacity to heavy vehicles which by far exceeds that of vehicles with conventional combustion engines. Researchers at Linköping University study how to exploit the full potential of diesel-electric drivelines.

The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, various universities and companies will invest SEK 1.8 billion over an 11-year period on research and development of autonomous systems.

The Volkswagen scandal has sped up the work to produce new legal requirements for emissions while driving under actual conditions. With the LiU researchers’ method, new reliable tests can be developed quickly and easily.

Researchers at Linköping University have developed new methods of generating and  transforming drive cycles. “A powerful and effective tool for vehicle development” says Peter Nyberg, who presents the methods in his doctoral thesis.

The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP), Sweden’s largest individual research programme, has been extended by three years and will receive a further research grant of nearly SEK 1.3 billion.

The many sensors with which cars are now fitted can be used to create active safety systems. In his licentiate thesis, Victor Fors examines how a car behaves when it is at the very limit of what it can achieve when avoiding a collision.

The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is donating SEK 50 million to Nanyang Technological University. The donation will provide financing for 25 young researchers from all over the world to spend one year in Singapore and one year in Sweden.