Sweden has a strong automotive industry focused on vehicle safety, advanced R&D, and competitive costs. Major automotive companies like Volvo, Scania, and Saab have global R&D centers in Sweden focusing on areas like safety, electronics, telematics, and hybrid technologies. The country invests heavily in collaborative R&D programs between industry and universities in fields like intelligent vehicle safety systems, vehicle ICT, and green vehicle initiatives.

1. Advanced Automotive Cluster

2. Sweden and ISA Offers Business Opportunities Gateways into the Ford and GM family and to the global truck market with Volvo-Renault-Mack and Scania Strong Safety Culture Innovative automotive industry and demanding road authority is the cradle for Swedish vehicle and road safety Advanced R&D Open 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Collaborative Engineering Society

6. Concentrated Cluster AUTOSAR Support Group

7. Swedish Competence Areas Vehicle safety Electronics platform design (Autosar) Communication platform design (Telematics) Hybrid vehicle technologies These competences are available through Swedish consultant companies

8. Swedish Automotive R&D Programs Intelligent Vehicle Safety Systems (IVSS) Program Period: 2004-08 Budget: $90 million (40% industry) Vehicle ICT Program Period: 2005-08 Budget: $28 million (55% industry) Vehicle Research Program Period: 2005-08 Budget: $50 million (50% industry) Swedish “Green Car” Initiative Period: 2000-08 Budget: $240 million (70% industry) Emission Research Program Period: 2002-08 Budget: $25 million (30% industry)

9. 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

10. 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

11. AUTOSAR – Automotive Open Software Architecture © AUTOSAR

12. AUTOSAR – A Worldwide consortium for OEMs and suppliers © AUTOSAR Core Partners General OEM Generic Tier 1 Standard Software Tools and Services Semi- conductors Associate Members Premium Members

13. 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

14. Collision Avoidance & Communication Platforms Communications Latency Positioning Accuracy Week Minute Second 10 m 0.01 m 1 m 0.1 m Driver calibration Media (CD) Cell network Satellite radio 802.11a/b/g (WiFi) GPS II GPS III Galileo NDGPS GPS w/L5 Source: Automotive Tech International CY05 Lane-keeping Sensor calibration Hazard warning Coordinated driving Curve warning Collision avoidance Obstacle detection 802.11p-DSRC

15. Telematics Valley Interest organization to support and strengthen the telematics industry More than 50 companies and 1000 telematics engineers 4 universities and institutes

16. Microwave Road Platform for national and international collaboration in microwave technology 40 electronics and microwave companies 4 universities and institutes

17. 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

18. Swedish Hybrid Technology Alternatives Parallel Series Power split Gear EM Battery ICE EM Battery Generator ICE ICE Generator Battery Planetary gear EM

19. Swedish Hybrid Technology Competences Internal Combustion Engine Transmission Electric motors Power electronics Energy buffer Control Hybrid technology Simulation Packaging Weight issues ICE Generator Battery Planetary gear EM

20. High expenditure on R&D 2004, percent of GDP Source: IMD, World Competitiveness Yearbook 2006

21. Competitive salary levels 2006, gross salaries, Zürich index 100 Source: UBS, ”Prices and earnings”, 2006.

22. High labor productivity 2000-2004, annual average productivity increase in manufacturing Source: US Department of Labor, 2006

23. Competitive corporate tax rates 2006, percent Source: KPMG Corporate Tax Survey, 2006