Yesterday I had a chance to visit the KTH transport labs, a very recent addition to the campus that holds quite a few interesting projects. The lab was opened in October 2012 as a way to gather all of the transportation projects from around KTH under one roof. Upon walking in, the first thing I saw was the electric car prototype and scooter that the lab head actively uses to run errands and commute to and from work.
Directly to the right, new cars for this year’s Shell Eco-marathon are being constructed. One car will be entered as a pure proof of concept endurance vehicle
and a second car will be entered as an urban vehicle concept, meaning that besides being efficient, it needs to be a marketable concept to an urban consumer.
Above, you can see the entrants and trophies from years past.
In an adjacent room, you can find a track for testing autonomous vehicle control systems (not limited to ground vehicles either).
If you’d like to learn more, visit their website or Facebook page. If you do come to KTH and are interested, you can join one of the many projects going on, even making one your degree project!
