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A Trip ThroughAutoland Saxony
How Felix discovered that the futureof the automobile starts right here
at his very doorstep.

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Motor vehicles made in “Autoland Saxony” have been providing people with mobility
for more than 100 years now. It was here that such innovations as the left-hand drive
and the frontwheel drive began their international success story.
With six vehicle, engine, and battery plants operated by BMW,
Daimler, Porsche, and Volkswagen as well as about 780 branch
suppliers, equipment and service providers, Saxony is one ofGermany’s top auto locations today. Approximately every
eighth car built in Germany comes from Saxony.

PLANTSWELCOME TO “AUTOLAND SAXONY”

TE... Felix whispers as a greeting. Thenhe casts a critical glance
inside the DKW F1, built almost 90 years ago in Zwickau,
Saxony. Every couple of weeks, Felix
is drawn from the West
Saxon University of Applied Sciences
Zwickau to the August
Horch Museum – and he always linge
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YESTERDAY IN “AUTOLAND SAXONY:”1900“Coswiga” – the first passenger car from Saxony, built in Coswig in     . AUDI is born1910
in Saxony – in     founded by the auto pioneer August Horch (under the Latin version of1932
his last name) in Zwickau. In     , Horch, Audi, DKW, and Wanderer joined forces in the
Chemnitz-based “Auto-Union.” It’s trademark – the four interlocked rings. Steering wheel on
the left, gearshift lever in the center – what most car drivers take for granted today began its

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global success story in Saxony (Audi Factory) in     . The mass-produced front-wheel-

Initially, it had only been a vague idea. But then, Felix
couldn’t think of anything else anymore: The automobileof the future – which technologies and value chains would
it require? How far along is the development?

Is “Autoland
Saxony” also helping
define the future of
the automobile?

1931
drive was launched for the first time ever in     in the DKW F1 from Saxony. Lightweight
1955
construction with thermosetting plastics – In     , Germany’s first vehicle with a massproduced plastic body was the Sachsenring P70 (later known as “Trabant”). The renaissance of1990“Autoland Saxony” was launched by VW in     – with the founding of the VW Sachsen
GmbH in Zwickau (today, also with production sites in Chemnitz and Dresden). A cordial

2002 ,
welcome! Other global players have also been focusing on Saxony: Porsche as of     2005 , Daimler (Accumotive: production of li-ion batteries) since     2009 .
BMW as of     2Felix, the prospective industrial engineer, began his
investigations; he burnt the midnight oil while sittingin front of the computer. Dropped everything, started
anew. Just a theoretical paper alone would not suffice,Felix knows that. He wants, he must – see, touch, grasp.
It’ll revolve around concrete value chains – around newmaterials, alternative drives, and automated driving. And
it’ll revolve around producing cars at low cost, while alsosaving resources. The automobile of the future “made in
Saxony” became his project. His Diplom degree project.
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At the bicycle stand in front of
the museum, Jenny suddenly
stands beside him, his former
roommate in their shared apartment. “Hi Felix! I thought your
Diplom project is the automobile of the future.
What on earth are you
looking for among theseveterans?” Jenny withher mocking undertone!
Felix smiles. “Inspiration
as an engineer. Did you
know, for example, that the
DKW F1 was the world’s firstThat was precisely
mass-produced passenger
in 1931. But do you also know
car with front-wheel drive?
what Saxony’s vehicle technology
And it came from Saxony!”

35.8 %

Saxony is in the “pole position” also whenit comes to the second automobile revolution. The region is currently evolving into
Europe’s largest and most modern production site for electric vehicles. And
when it comes to such future topics as
highly automated / autonomous driving,
lightweight construction in an efficientmix of materials as well as intelligent
transport systems, “Autoland Saxony”
is one of the top locations as well.

share of Saxon industry ‘s foreign sales

has to offer today? That everythinga car needs is produced here,in our region?

26. 2 %

95,000employees in Saxony ‘s automobile industry

share of Saxony ‘s industrial turnover80 %of whom more than  work in the supply industry

The automobile industry is also the driving force of Saxony’s manufacturing industry. Its
approximately 95,000 employees, of whom more than 80 % work in the supply industry,generate more than one quarter of Saxony’s industrial production. From A like alternator
to Z like Z-axle, automotive suppliers in Saxony are capable of developing and manufacturing virtually all the components and parts required for a vehicle as well as the requisite
production equipment.
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Jenny and Felix sit together for a few more hours,
drinking red
wine while looking at Zwickau Cathedral. Of course, they don’t
just talk about vehicle technology “made in Saxony” – butthat’s also a topic of their discussion. After all, they
haven’tseen each other for quite a while ... Jenny has receiv
ed a number of job offers after having completed her Diplom
studiesof vehicle engineering: From Stuttgart, from Wolfsb
urg, from
Munich. All places which evoke associations with Felix– because isn’t that where the automobile of the futureis built?
In the end, though, Jenny had finally decided in favorof Volks­
wagen in Zwickau – which some of their friends didn’t
understand at all; even Felix had his doubts. But Jenny’s
decisionshave always been very deliberate and well thoughtout.

THE SPECIALISTSOF TOMORROW
are trained and educatedin “Autoland Saxony”
not only in Zwickau.

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Jenny’s call still echoes in his ears when
he gets on his e-bike a week later. For acouple of days, he’ll be en route in “Autoland Saxony,” as the federal state is sometimes called. Jenny has compiled a list for
him and written in big red letters on top ofit: MUST SEE ! – companies and research
centers from Zwickau to Kamenz, from
Leipzig to Freiberg. For a while, Felix’s jaw
dropped – he hadn’t expected to find thisdiversity, this competence, these visions
right here at his very doorstep. He won’t
be able to pay everyone a visit, but some
appointments have been made and theroute has been planned. Felix whizzes off.

I really needto talk to Jennyabout this.

Lightweight construction isimportant for the fuel saving“automobile of the future.”
But the production of components made of composite materials is complex and expensive. Finding a solution forthis problem is the objective of Europe’s largest lightweight construction cluster “MERGE”
at Chemnitz’ University. Here, 100 experts from the sectors mechanical engineering,mathematics, electrical engineering, physics, chemistry, and information science pool theirknowledge. Production processes for the processing of metals, plastics, and textiles thatare carried out separately are to be consolidated into a mass-producible and resource-efficient technology. A system demonstrator called “MERGE up!” shows exemplary developments – for example, car rims made of fiber plastic aluminum foam that are 50 percent
lighter or a lightweight seat in multi-material design. All components are manufactured
with hybrid procedures that are suitable for large-batch mass production. Guaranteed!
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Picture: Freiberg University of Mining and Technology

LIGHTER MASSPRODUCTION

Not even a one-hour car ride away from MERGE is the location of Saxony’s second large
lightweight construction center: The Institute of Lightweight Engineering and Polymer
Technology (ILK) at Dresden University of Technology. Here, the aim is to develop innovative lightweight structures and to bring them to mass production. One of the researchhighlights is compact, has a cuddly front
end, and is called FiF. FiF is a “functionally integrative vehicle system carrier”
and stands for a van in the urban or intracorporate sector. The exciting thing
about the FiF is its innovative textilethermoplastic construction. The supporting vehicle structure was reduced to six
highly integrated structural parts. The
vehicle is also permeated with a sensor
network that is integrated into the textile
components and assumes the data communication within the FiF.

LIGHT, LIGHTER,MAGNESIUM
In Freiberg developers have directed
their attention towards the lightest of
all construction metals – magnesium.
The Freiberg University dedicates itself
to the development of forming technologies for magnesium flat products. They
are in great demand as an inexpensive
lightweight material for the realizationof modern construction concepts.
A globally unique industrial-scale prototype system serves as a base for the investigation of casting and strip rolling
technologies for the production of magnesium sheets. In order to tap the material’s enormous potential even better,
another pilot plant for the productionof magnesium wire was established.

Picture: Dresden University of Technology / ILK Institute

MATERIAL MIX WITH AN EYE ON THE APPLICATION

Picture: Chemnitz University of Technology / MERGE

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to pursue even further when he’ll visit
the lightweight campus at Dresden
University of Technology and the
production of carbon parts at the BMW
Plant Leipzig during the next few days.

IDEAS FOR THE
AUTOMOBILE
OF TOMORROW
are created by numerous R&D
facilities in “Autoland Saxony.”

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LIGHT IN CARS,HARD TO RECYCLE

The development of mass-producible lightweight solutions for vehicle structures
which protect passengers during a collision – this is the reason why the three
Universities of Technology in Chemnitz, Dresden, and Freiberg have consolidated their forces. The joint project is entitled “hybCrash – Pilot Production Technologies for Heavily Loaded Hybrid Multilayer Crash Structures.” The ambitious
goal: Developing THE perfect recipe for an indestructible sandwich made of abasic textile structure, a plastic reinforcement for stability and strength as well
as a light metal layer serving as flexible protection during an accident. And all
this even more inexpensive in mass production than conventional components,
please. Possible? Yes! – When the three lightweight construction universities in
Saxony combine and consolidate their individual competences. But there ismore to come: “hybCrash” is just the beginning of the cooperation. In October
2017, the Universities of Chemnitz, Dresden, and Freiberg jointly founded the“Lightweight Construction Alliance for Saxony.”

Picture: STFI / Eissmann Cotesa GmbH

Indestructible Sandwich

Carbon fibers or carbon fiber-reinforced
plastics (CFRP) have become an indispensable part of automotive lightweight construction today. So it’s about time thatsomeone tackles the sustainable production
and recycling of these innovative materials. The processing of carbon fiber waste and its reuseas a base material for high quality fiber composite components are in the focus of the research
conducted at the Saxon Textile Research Institute e. V. (STFI) in Chemnitz. The institute’s own
in-house “Center for Textile Lightweight Engineering” develops and tests innovative technologies which will permit the production of the most diverse nonwoven materials from CFRP
waste and their subsequent reintegration into components by the institute’s industrial partners.
Towards this end, the Chemnitz researchers want to create a value creation chain which can be
implemented at an industrial scale and is capable of feeding not only waste from production processes, but also the components themselves at the end of their service life back into
the materials cycle in a sustainable manner.

Picture: STFI, Wolfgang Schmidt

Recipe for an

Pictures: BMW AG (3)FIRST MASS PRODUCTION
OF CFRP COMPONENTS

10The BMW Plant Leipzig (opened in 2005) is oneof the most modern and sustainable automobile
factories worldwide – with a current staff of approx. 5,300 employees. More than 1,000 cars roll
off the assembly line every day, of which 180 are
vehicles of the BMW i3 and i8 model series. The
latter excel not only with their alternative drive
systems, but also with their car bodies made ofthe lightweight material CFRP. For the first time
ever, a large-batch production was implemented
for passenger compartments made of CFRP whichis revolutionizing automobile production of thenext generation.

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Yesterday he had still been in Leipzig.
Today he’s leaving for the opposite
corner of Saxony. Felix would’ve loved
to have appeared with the e-bike for his
appointment at the battery producer
Accumotive in Kamenz. But this trip isjust too long for an e-bike ride which
is why he gets on board a train again.
At the Daimler subsidiary Accumotive,
lithium-ion batteries have been produced
for automobile applications since 2010.
That “his” automobile of the future would
be an e-vehicle has been crystal clear to
Felix right from the start. The fact thata large corporation like Daimler “orders”
its batteries in Saxony excites him.
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HYDROGEN
INSTEAD OF
ELECTRICITY
Many institutes conduct research on alternative drive and propulsion systems. If the specificfocus is on fuel cell drive systems, then one ends up with only a handful of institutions.
Among them is Chemnitz University of Technology which has put the topic of fuel celldrive systems center stage already since 2010. The scientists at the Professorship ofAdvanced Powertrains (ALF) are convinced that vehicles powered by fuel cells can score a
lot of points with increased mileage and shorter “recharging” times. What’s still missing,though, are inexpensive processes that are suitable for the mass production of the requisite
components. To change this situation, the researchers at Chemnitz University of Technology have pooled their competences together with other Saxon partners in the “HZwo – Driving Saxony” network. One of the development projects focused on a bipolar plate for passenger car fuel cells which can be mass-produced at low cost with industrial scale production processes.

In the afternoon, he drives toDresden. After having visited
Volkswagen’s “Transparent
Factory,” he stays overnightwith a friend before he’ll headto other appointments in andaround Saxony’s state capitalthe next day. ‘Awesome how
short distances are here,’ Felix
muses during his train ride toDresden, ‘and how much one
can learn about the automobile of the future within only
a couple of days!’This evening, it’s actually Jenny
who calls him.

Picture: Department ALF, Chemnitz University / Ronald Bartel

The German Federal Chancellor was in Kamenz, as was Saxony’s Minister President, andof course also Daimler’s CEO. The reason for this summit meeting in May 2017: The festive
cornerstone ceremony for one of the largest and most modern battery factories on the entire globe. With an investment of about 500 million euros, the Daimler subsidiary Accumotive is already building its second factory for lithium-ion batteries. With that, the production
and logistics space in Kamenz increases fourfold. In the new factory, all-electric battery
products are made, for example, for the smart. The spring of 2019 marked the start of thebatteries’ volume production for the Mercedes-Benz EQC. Daimler’s utility vehicles such as
the Vito Van, Sprinter, eCanter, or Fuso also rely on batteries from Saxony. No wonder thatthe corporate staff more than doubled within a short period of time – to a current numberof more than 1,600 employees.

Picture: Deutsche Accumotive GmbH & Co. KG

DAIMLER’S PREMIUM E-BATTERY FACTORYFASTER WITH
NETWORKS
More innovative, more
flexible, more cost-efficient– those who want to standout from today’s competition better look for reliable
partners. For example, in
the Saxony Automotive
Supplier Network (AMZ).

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Pictures: Volkswagen AG (2)VW AND SAXONY: (ELECTRO)MOBILE TOGETHERThe VW Group has been committed to Saxony for about 30 years now. The Volkswagen
Sachsen GmbH employs about 10,000 people in its Vehicle Plant Zwickau, its Engine
Plant Chemnitz, and in the “Transparent Factory” Dresden. Within the scope of its e-mobility campaign, VW also relies on the unique competences available in “Autoland Saxony:” With an investment sum of 1 billion euros, the Zwickau plant is being turned into
Europe’s largest and most efficient e-vehicle production site. It is the first complete trans-

formation of a large automobile factory on the entire globe. In the future, the plant willbuild exclusively e-vehicles for Volkswagen and other brands of the corporate group, andthe annual production capacity will amount to 330,000 vehicles. The first mass-produced
vehicles of the new VW ID family will roll off the assembly line in Zwickau at the end of
2019. Another part of VW’s concept for the future is Dresden’s “Transparent Factory”
which has been repositioned as a “Showcase for Electromobility.” Since April 2017, thee-Golf has been produced here. A start-up incubator for mobility services is also integrated into the “Transparent Factory.”

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Picture: BMW GroupAn e-vehicle has to fill-up as well. Making electromobility really suitable for everyday use calls forclever ideas when it comes to increased energy
efficiency and flexible recharging. Here as well,
Saxony is on the right track. For example, theglobal technology leader for large-format OPV
solar foils, Dresden’s Heliatek GmbH, is developing a solar-active car roof system together withthe automotive supplier Webasto. Dresden’s
Solarwatt GmbH which supplies, for example,
complete solar carports for private users also

Picture: Heliatek GmbH, Photographer André Wirsig

SUN ROOF AND
LANTERN PARKINGIN A DIFFERENT WAY

gets the sunshine into the (e)tank. The
company is, thus, BMW’s official partner in the e-mobility sector. The Leipziger Leuchten GmbH develops andproduces power charging modules
which permit the retrofitting of street
lights into charging stations. And theexperts of the EA Systems DresdenGmbH plan and implement the integration of electromobility into complex
grid infrastructures. Towards this end,
they have developed both a holistic
simulation software for energy systems
and the “easyCharge” charging stations
with intelligent charging capacity control.

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Picture: Intenta GmbHon his feet again early. In an exhilarated
Two days later – back in Zwickau – Felix is
of Chemnitz, sometimes whistling in all
mood, he once again rides in the direction
a driver assistance system. This actuallyof his exuberance, and completely without
when Felix is allowed to visit thelater,
bita
becomes a topic of discussion justcomponents are developed specificallyIntenta GmbH in Chemnitz. Here, softwareon the road; (Auto)Land Saxony granted
for driver assistance systems, and tested
is impressed, but also still a little bita special permit so that it’s possible. Felix
be available for cars in the foreseeablewillgdrivinskeptical. Sure, highly automatedps this will become clearer after
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SMART ASSISTANT DRIVERS
FROM CHEMNITZ“Chemnitz was to have been a stopoverin my career for a maximum of three
years. That was what I had promised mywife when my fellow student Basel Fardi
and I came here to earn our doctoral
degrees at Chemnitz University of Technology in 2000. Since then, almost
20 years have passed and we’ve foundChemnitz to be the place where wewant to work and live with our families.”

A PRIME LOCATION FOR START-UPS
Saxony actively supports start-ups – with awide range of founder and idea contests andmultifaceted technology funding.

16“Chemnitz University of Technology provided the best possible
conditions in our research fields.
When Intenta was founded in2011, it never occurred to us togo anywhere else, but to stay in
Chemnitz. The region has muchto offer; particularly for start-ups
in the high tech sector. We were
Dr. Heiko Cramer, Co-Founder and Head of the
supported by the university, theAutomotive Division, Intenta GmbH Chemnitz
start-up network Saxeed, and theTechnology Center Chemnitz.
And the funding instruments provided by the Federal State of Saxony helped us
as well. We’ve never regretted our decision infavor of Chemnitz and we’re bringing our software – in particular, solutions for automatic
environment recognition – for driver assistancesystems into mass production from here. With
great success! We were able to grow from six to
160 employees within only five years.“
Dr. Basel Fardi, Co-Founder and Head of the SmartSensor
Division, Intenta GmbH Chemnitz

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TRAFFIC REPORT FROM SAXONY –CARS WITHOUT DRIVER ON THE ROAD

Picture: IAV GmbHIAV GmbH’s Chemnitz /Stollberg site specializes inthe development of highly
automated assistance systems and the implementationof field tests. The engineering services provider has
already tested a number ofexperimental vehicles withgreat success under regulartraffic conditions – for example, on the federal expressway A4 between Chemnitz
and Dresden. The Chemnitz
researchers share this experience in Saxon pilot projects:
The focus of the Leipzig-based ABSOLUT project is on the development of highly automated vehicles and their use on a municipal test track. The initiative “Synchronized
Mobility 2023” unites a total of 40 partners in Saxony under its roof and will establish,
for example, several test corridors for networked urban mobility in Dresden.

WHEN VEHICLES “REALLY” TALK TO ONE ANOTHER... then the communications engineers have taken the decisive step towards realizing thevision of autonomous driving. Sensors cannot see what is behind the curve; passenger cars
need to be able to communicate with one another and with traffic control systems. This calls
for technologies that can transmit large data volumes in real time. The researchers at Dresden
University of Technology’s “5G Lab Germany” are leaders in this field. Together with suchindustrial partners as Nokia, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Bosch, Telemotive as well as BMW
and Volkswagen, they are working on the mobile communication standard of the future.

KEEPING AN EYE ON EVERYTHING
EVEN IN THE DENSEST URBAN TRAFFIC

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MEETS “SILICON SAXONY”
A vibrant automotive venue andEurope’s largest microelectronics /ICT cluster – a powerful teamheading for the automobile future.
Picture: NAVENTIK GmbHOk – (semi-)autonomous driving on federal expressways works already. In other words, inwell-structured environments in which there are only white lines and no persons or traffic
lights at all. But in dense urban traffic with many interactors, vehicle localization is often
impaired which, in turn, hinders the navigation. Right here, the Chemnitz-based start-up
NAVENTIK comes into play: The company, a spin-off of Chemnitz University of Technology, has developed a software for the precise environmental recognition of vehicles
in urban areas. This software identifies sources of interference and error, analyzes them,and compensates them. In addition, the software also permits the use of other sensor datafrom the car to determine the location. It is, thus, possible to localize a position even if
the direct signal from the satellites is interrupted. The result: With NAVENTIK software,autonomous vehicles keep an eye on everything in urban traffic.

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tion. In so doing, the about 4,300 employees truly pursue the principle of a “lean”
factory: A flexible work organization, a logistics concept with a maximum materials
lead time of one day as well as a high assembling complexity. In March 2019,
Porsche launched what is already the fifth
expansion stage in Leipzig – on its way towards a plant for all-electric vehicles.

If manufacturing experts want to know how to design the “smart” production of tomorrow, then they’ll find pioneering answers in Saxony: For example, at the Fraunhofer
IWU institute’s “Research Factory Resource-Efficient Production” in Chemnitz. Technological developments for the conservation of resources in production, for the emissionneutral factory, and for human-machine collaboration are being tested here together
with such industrial partners as VW. In the “Industrial IoT Testbed” at the Dresden University of Applied Sciences, entrepreneurs can test how they can transfer their production into a highly automated, flexible, and integrated one. The Dresden start-up Wandelbots GmbH develops solutions which make the interaction-based “programming” ofindustrial robots as easy as can be.

Yet for the sports car manufacturer, Saxony
is more than just a production venue. Withan eye on the potentials of digitalization andon the development and testing of innovative
driver assistance systems, Porsche cooperates in
research and education with such universities in
Saxony as Chemnitz University of Technology
or the Zwickau University of Applied Sciences.
In addition, Porsche supports the SpinLab Leipzig, the start-up incubator of the HHL Leipzig
Graduate School of Management.

SOLUTIONS FOR
SMART PRODUCTION
With a 200-year tradition, Saxony
is the cradle of German machine
construction. And today, it ishome to efficient and successful
partners in automation.

Pictures: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG (2)50 % of all the Porsche vehicles bear thelabel of origin “Made in Saxony:” In addition to the sports sedan Panamera, Porsche’s
bestseller, the compact SUV Macan, is also produced in Leipzig. Since its founding
19 years ago, the Porsche Leipzig Plant has
been one of the most modern and mostsustainable automobile factories on the entire globe – with a high degree of automa-

Picture: Jürgen Lösel / Fraunhofer Institute IWU

Picture: Wandelbots GmbHPORSCHE – LEIPZIG PLANT 5.0

SMART, SMARTER, SAXONY!

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Well, now do youdbelieve that “Autolan
Saxony” is roaring
into the future?

The Pros Behind It... are the staff members of the Saxony Economic Development Corporation (Wirtschaftsförderung Sachsen GmbH). We’re promoting the business location Saxony
with conviction. But we prefer to let our actions speak for themselves. We assist new
business setups and company expansions, help develop new markets, and initiate
networks between business and research.

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