Project

The purpose of SEVS is to explore how safe, efficient and affordable future vehicles should be designed and ascertain what research needs to be performed, with special focus on safety and energy consumption. The project team consisted of members with different areas of expertise in order to explore important synergy effects and possible conflicts between new technologies. The project was initiated by SAFER and Swedish Hybrid Vehicle Centre (SHC). Research in the automotive industry is generally conducted with the vehicle as the highest level of research. We, however, adopted a more holistic approach in which the vehicle is regarded as a part of the solution in a traffic system level. While technological uncertainties make it impossible to determine today what will be the right automotive engineering solution in 2030, uncertain social factors play an even bigger part. For this reason we set out to define four extreme scenarios for the future, based on trends and tendencies we see in the world of today. Four future scenarios were created to address uncertainties and create a solid research strategy. We analyzed the driving forces behind development in order to determine the feasibility of different types of vehicles.