Volvo Cars, Semcon, ETC, Vattenfall, and the Swedish Energimyndigheten has been sharing expertise and technology to produce hybrid plug-in concept vehicles in the Volvo concept facility.
Completion of three concept vehicles is expected this fall. These prototypes will be used by the companies to gain more knowledge of how consumers will need 
plug-in units in the future. They will look into how people want their cars to feel in terms of performance and functionality. Another important item to address is how people want to charge their rides.
The tie-up formed a six-man team which converted a standard combustion engine vehicle into a hybrid plug-in. The team installed an electric motor and batteries, and tweaked on the car’s configuration to make everything work together.
The collaboration proved to be very cost effective since there are experts from all the fields needed to come up with a viable concept car. The members of the team contributed their own inputs for project management, electronics, engineering, and powertrain.
The technological development trails a smoother path with the close cooperation of all parties involved in the project. The Volvo concept hybrid plug-in vehicles will reflect a combo of technologies being explored by different companies to develop Diesel-Electric hybrid vehicles and EVs.
Semcon is an engineering firm with offices in 40 different locations. They have an employee base of around 2800 engineers in different fields of expertise. The company declared sales of approximately SEK 3.3 billion last year.
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