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/
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. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
During the last few weeks, „Christmas time“ has returned to SWEngin frequently: Alongside the here depicted bottom parts, a lot more components from different suppliers will be arriving these days. Altogether they are going to build the first complete FPLG system which has been developed by SWEngin: the demonstrator (pre-prototype) with opposed piston. The unwrapping of the components made of […]
Combustion chamber, linear generator, gas spring – these three components of the FPLG are being montaged at this very moment. All pistons have already been integrated. This week 16 linear generators have been montaged and adjusted with patience and devotion. In the following, the FPLG’s moving parts will be montaged. Then, all three subsystems will be installed and consequently the […]
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