"Lund has quietly emerged as a powerhouse for automotive technology, attracting global giants like Volvo, Bosch, Volkswagen, and Rivian. The city's deep expertise in sensor technology, wireless communication, and embedded systems, originally honed during the mobile phone era, is now driving innovation in the car industry. Rapidus has done a longer article, exploring the background."
"We knew our expertise was in demand, and we weren't particularly eager to start a consulting firm. So we took a meeting with Volvo and explained what we could do. It was quite unique because there was no company, no product - just 40 people with broad expertise,"
"We're not only expanding our existing trip-planning functions but also adding new areas of work. Today, we're about 20 people in Lund, and in a year, we aim to be at least 50,"
Lund transitioned from a mobile-phone engineering center into a concentrated automotive-technology cluster built on sensor, wireless and embedded-systems expertise. Ericsson's Lund mobile platform team later moved through Intel, and when Intel closed its Lund office in 2016, a group of engineers formed a new R&D unit with Volvo Cars; Volvo now employs nearly 400 people in Lund focused on software for electric and autonomous vehicles. Bosch employs almost 200 in Lund on autonomous driving and connected infotainment. Nvidia and Continental have offices at Ideon Science Park. Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies acquired Lund-based Iternio (A Better Route Planner) and plan to expand the Lund team to 50+.
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