Expertise

KTH Royal Institute of Technology is Sweden’s largest university for technical research and education. KTH brings together students, researchers, and educators from around the world and activities are grounded in a strong tradition of advancing science and innovation, focusing on contributing to sustainable societal development.

KTH is highly active in the automotive area, focussing on sustainable, electric, and autonomous vehicle technologies. These can be applied to operational and functional aspects of the design and manufacturing of cars, trucks, buses, bicycles, trains, watercraft, aircraft and spacecraft. These activities are undertaken in research, education, and student-led initiatives.

KTH has core expertise in a broad spectrum of automotive-related topics including vehicle systems, technologies and components; aerodynamics; dynamics and motion control; acoustics and vibration; materials and circularity; conceptual design; electric traction and hybrid drives; and energy storage system.

Research activities at KTH are often undertaken in multidisciplinary collaborative initiatives that incorporate wider transport considerations. These initiatives include the Centre for ECO2 Vehicle Design, Integrated Transport Research Lab (ITRL), Road2Science (R2S), Centre for Transport Studies (CTS), the Centre for Traffic Research (CTR), Transport Research Environment with Novel Perspectives (TRENoP) and Battery 3PC. Research is done in close collaboration with automotive manufacturers such as Scania, Volvo Trucks and Volvo Cars. Additionally, KTH has formal strategic partnerships with companies including Scania, Alstom, SAAB, Ericsson, and others.

KTH education activities include a doctoral programme in Vehicle, Maritime and Aerospace Engineering and a master’s programme in Vehicle Engineering, along with the option to build an electric mobility profile. KTH also works with EIT Urban Mobility Master School. KTH has active student-led initiatives such as KTH Formula Student and KTH Hyperloop.

Participation in EU Projects and International Activities

KTH has a long and extensive history of participation to EU-funded research with recent automotive-related example including ASCENT: Autonomous Vehicular Edge Computing and Networking for Intelligent Transportation; AutoDrive: Fail-aware/fail-safe electronics and architectures enabling fully automated driving; Car2TERA: Sub-THz sensors and networks for next-gen smart automotive electronics/ADAS. ODYSSEV: High-voltage EV powertrains for sustainable, ultra-fast charging electric vehicles; Pneu-Haptics: Haptic driver cues in seats to support communication/control in (semi-) autonomous cars; VISION-xEV: Virtual integration framework to speed up development of electrified vehicle powertrains; ENSEMBLE: Enabling safe multi-brand platooning for Europe; ECCENTRIC: Innovative solutions for sustainable mobility of people in suburban city districts and emission free freight logistics in urban centres; COMPANION: Cooperative mobility solutions for supervised platooning; TECABS: Technologies for carbon fibre reinforced modular automotive structures.