Intelligent Vehicle Cluster in Sweden

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Advanced Automotive Cluster


Sweden and ISA Offers

Business OpportunitiesGateways into the Ford and GM family and to the global truck market with Volvo-Renault-Mack and Scania

Strong Safety CultureInnovative automotive industry and demanding road authority is the cradle for Swedish vehicle and road safety

Advanced R&DOpen collaborative environment and a hot bed for R&D activities within automotive electronics, wireless telematics and hybrid technologies

Competitive Cost Best cost level for advanced R&D activities among the handful competitive world automotive cluster


Swedish Vehicle Industry

1.5% of the world car production

20% of the world truck production

14% of Swedish exports

Employs 150,000 people (10% of EU total)

Volvo Cars and PAG R&D center(owned by Ford Motor Group)

Saab Automobile (owned by General Motors)

Scania (largest owner is Volkswagen)

Volvo Trucks (largest owner is Renault)

Home to Autoliv, Haldex, SKF and others


Volvo Cars Corporation Global Ford R&D center for safety, electronics and telematics

(Ford’s Premium Automotive Group) Global Ford R&D center for hybrid car technologies Volvo Car Safety Center opened in 2000.

Saab Automobile Global GM R&D center for safety, HMI, sensors, telematics,

chassis system and turbo engines

Volvo Trucks Global R&D center for all automotive technologies

Scania Global R&D center for all automotive technologies

Autoliv Global R&D center for safety systems

Global Center for Automotive R&D


Collaborative Engineering Society


Concentrated Cluster

AUTOSAR Support Group


Swedish Competence Areas

Vehicle safety

Electronics platform design (Autosar)

Communication platform design (Telematics)

Hybrid vehicle technologies

These competences areavailable through Swedish consultant companies


Swedish Automotive R&D Programs

Intelligent Vehicle Safety Systems (IVSS) ProgramPeriod: 2004-08 Budget: $90 million (40% industry)

Vehicle ICT ProgramPeriod: 2005-08 Budget: $28 million (55% industry)

Vehicle Research ProgramPeriod: 2005-08 Budget: $50 million (50% industry)

Swedish “Green Car” Initiative Period: 2000-08 Budget: $240 million (70% industry)

Emission Research ProgramPeriod: 2002-08 Budget: $25 million (30% industry)


IVSS Program

Impaired Drivers

Speed (Sense, Alert & Respond)

Crashworthiness & Biomechanics

Sensor-rich Embedded Systems

Communication Platforms &Digital Road Maps

Dependable & Fault Tolerant Systems

Drugs

Alcohol

Distraction

Drowsiness

Road Conditions

Performance

Traffic Management

Obstacle Detection

IVSS Project Areas

Now involving 16 companies, 5 universities and 4 institutes

Open to foreign companies with a Swedish partner


SAFER

New competence center for vehicle safety systems and solutions

Industry and university in cooperation at Lindholmen Science Park

Will grow to include 200 research engineers

Special test area for safety systems


AUTOSAR – Automotive Open Software Architecture

© AUTOSAR


AUTOSAR – A Worldwide consortium for OEMs and suppliers

© AUTOSAR

Core Partners

GeneralOEM

GenericTier 1

StandardSoftware

Tools and Services

Semi-conductors

AssociateMembers

Premium Members


Swedish AUTOSAR Support Group

More than 800 professional embedded software experts

Offering AUTOSAR embedded SW services and products

Development of Embedded SW for Tier-1 ECU manufacturer

Integration of ECU HW and SW

Adaptation of ECU to Swedish OEM electrical architecture

Local Support services for remote suppliers

Requirement specification and testing

ENEA Consat Mecel QRtech


Collision Avoidance & Communication Platforms

Communications Latency

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Week Minute Second

10 m

0.01 m Lane-keeping

Sensor

calibration

1 m

0.1 m

Hazard warning

Driver calibration

Coordinated driving

Media (CD)Cell network

Satellite radio

802.11a/b/g (WiFi)

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Curve warning

Source: Automotive Tech International CY05

Collision avoidance

Obstacle detection

802.11p-DSRC


Telematics Valley

Interest organization to support and strengthen the telematics industry

More than 50 companies and 1000 telematics engineers

4 universities and institutes


Microwave Road Platform for national and international collaboration in

microwave technology

40 electronics and microwave companies

4 universities and institutes


Hybrid Technology Center

National Competence Center at Lindholmen Science Park

Volvo Cars (Ford) invests totally $1,4 billions over five years within hybrid research

Volvo Truck also have their hybrid R&D center in Göteborg


Swedish Hybrid Technology Alternatives

Parallel

Series

Power split

GearEM

Battery

ICE

EMBatteryGeneratorICE

ICE

Generator

Battery

Planetary gear

EM


Swedish Hybrid Technology Competences

ICE

Generator

Battery

Planetary gear

EM

Internal Combustion Engine

Transmission

Electric motors

Power electronics

Energy buffer

Control

Hybrid technology

Simulation

Packaging

Weight issues


High expenditure on R&D2004, percent of GDP

2,49

2,57

2,61

2,63

2,66

2,87

3,2

3,48

3,95

4,55

Germany

Switzerland

Denmark

South Korea

US

Iceland

Japan

Finland

Sweden

Israel

Source: IMD, World Competitiveness Yearbook 2006


Competitive salary levels2006, gross salaries, Zürich index 100

69,4

73,8

75,4

76,1

77,5

86,9

96,5

100

101,7

102,7

Göteborg

Helsinki

Brussels

Frankfurt

London

New York

Geneva

Zürich

Oslo

Copenhagen

Source: UBS, ”Prices and earnings”, 2006.


High labor productivity2000-2004, annual average productivity increase in manufacturing

1,8%

2,0%

2,5%

3,1%

3,8%

4,2%

5,0%

5,9%

6,2%

6,9%

Canada

Denmark

France

Germany

UK

Norway

Japan

US

Sweden

South Korea

Source: US Department of Labor, 2006


Competitive corporate tax rates2006, percent

12,5

26

28

28

29,6

30

33,3

38,3

40

40,7

Ireland

Finland

Sweden

Denmark

Netherlands

UK

France

Germany

US

Japan

Source: KPMG Corporate Tax Survey, 2006