Munich STARTUP asked SWEngin seven questions about the „Free Piston Linear Generator“ (FPLG) and published all answers on its homepage. In the article, the founding team is introduced as well as the vision which encourages the team.
Interview: http://www.munich-startup.de/11215/7-fragen-an-swengin/
SWEngin has decided to give its product a name. From now on the free piston linear generator will be known as FreeP. The new name is, of course, not completely made up out of thin air, but meaningful: FreeP stands for Free Piston Linear Generator, the full term for the FPLG. This way SWEngin has found the right term for […]
The first ignition within the FPLG’s combustion chamber has been achieved in connection with the project „HOMEFREE II“, which is a collaboration project of the DLR (German Aerospace Center – Vehicle Concept Institute), FKFS (Research Institute of Automotive Engineering and Vehicle Engines, Stuttgart) and SWEngin. The test with a initially hydraulic engine did work right away and got remarkable results. […]
Christmas time – calming down and recharging one’s batteries. In this spirit, we wish you relaxing Christmas days and a happy New Year! New test series are waiting for us next year. A very important milestone is the demonstrator’s construction in March 2016. We are going to keep you up-dated about the latest developments and most recent results in the […]
Unabated interest in the FPLG: Sunday, the 17/04/2016, a thorough article about the FPLG and SWEngin GmbH was published in the newspaper „Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung“. In february, journalist Bettina Weiguny had already paid a visit to the DLR’s test bench in Stuttgart, where she conducted interesting interviews with chief engineer Dr. Florian Kock and Business Angel Prof. Dr. Manfred Gröger. […]
2nd and 3rd March: Important representatives of the Chinese company „Southern Raytaii“ came to SWEngin’s locations. The visit’s subject was the view of the test benches located at the DLR in Stuttgart and concrete negotiations in Munich about a future collaboration. The company based in Shenzen (China) is an international investment group with focus on innovative technology projects. Southern Raytaii […]
On the 24th of November, SWEngin’s tecnical director Dr. Florian Kock is going to give a speech at the VDI-conference of experts. He is going to talk about all recent developments regarding the project “FPLG”. The scientific news webpage “VDI Wissensforum” published a teaserlike German article about SWEngin, “The Road to Zero Emission” and our vision. Even though the short article […]
Signing contracts, the skilled visionary and strategist Prof. Dr. Manfred Gröger becomes new CEO of SWEngin. Previously in SWEngin’s team, he acted as Business Angel and representative of former investors. After a long collaboration he is now not only on hand with help and advice but supports SWEngin with his experience as a Venture Capital’s chairman of the supervisory board. […]
At the beginning of the year, we welcome a new member to our team of technicians. As a development engineer, Tim Lanz will subsidiary drive foward the technology of the FreeP. With his studies of “product development and materials engineering” in combination with his master thesis on the cooling system for combustion pistons, he is a valuable support in the […]
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