Semcon cooperating with Volvo Cars to develop plug-in hybrid technology

Semcon cooperating with Volvo Cars to develop plug-in hybrid technology 

Over the past year, Semcon has been working with Volvo Cars' development of 3
demo plug-in hybrids in a cooperation project between Volvo Cars, Vattenfall,
ETC and Energimyndigheten (The Swedish Energy Agency). 

Semcon has worked on converting a vehicle with a conventional combustion engine
to a plug-in by adapting and installing an electric motor and battery,
constructing an adapted transmission and designing and constructing the wiring,
logger and control units. Three prototype cars are being produced so that in the
autumn of 2009 all information will be gathered about what requirements and
demands drivers will place on this new technology, what the driving experience
is like and how people will charge their cars. 

In total, six people with different specialist skills from Powertrain,
electronics, project management and calculation have been involved in the work. 


“In an independent and resource-effective way, Semcon has designed the technical
solutions demanded by the project and the cars have consequently been built at
Volvo's Concept plant in cooperation with Semcon,” says Anders Björnberg, who is
responsible for the plug-in project at Volvo Cars. 

By utilizing the developments made in the different industries Semcon works
with, customers can be offered cost-effective and innovative technological
development. Close cooperation with companies in different sectors is essential
in this type of project. 

”Today all sorts of different projects are being run worldwide to convert
vehicles to being hybrid-driven and solely electrically-driven. With the small
series and different concepts that are flourishing among manufacturers, Semcon's
experience in constructing and installing the new technology is of course very
valuable,” comments Stefan Ohlsson, president, Semcon Automotive R&D.

For more information, please contact: 
Stefan Ohlsson, president Semcon Automotive R&D, +46 (0)736-840 555
Anders Atterling, IR manager, Semcon AB, +46 (0)704-47 28 19

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development and technical information with specialist teams that meet our
customers' requirements. The Group has sites at 40 locations on three continents
with around 2,800 engineers who have extensive experience from many different
technical-intense sectors. Semcon had annual sales of SEK 3.3 billion in 2008
and Semcon's shares are listed on the Nasdaq OMX Nordic Exchange Stockholm under
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