We are honoured to have been presented with Uppsala University’s Attractive Innovation Award. Thank you UU Innovation !Our test system has been running flawlessly on a city bus for over a year, and we are now looking for reference clients, ideally in the public transport sector, to help move forward with the development of our […]
Our ambulances donated to Ukraine
Now that we have finished testing the ViruBustor system on the Mercedes Sprinter ambulance, we felt that it would do more good in Ukraine. We appealed for donations of medical equipment so that it wouldn’t travel down empty, and got an enormous response, so it was filled with around half a ton of banadages, syringes, […]
Cold-weather testing in Norrland
Two of our ambulances have been up in Norrland to check how ViruBustor copes with extreme weather conditions, and the results are good.
Ironically, we’ve gone viral…
Well, not quite, but we have gotten a lot of media attention this week : An article on the Uppsala University homepage : https://www.uu.se/nyheter/artikel/?id=18166 And an interview on Swedish TV:https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/uppsala/sa-ska-bussmotorer-elda-upp-virus We were also interviewed for the evening press, but no article yet.
Exploring the business model
Since the public transportation industry runs on very tight margins, we need to explore ways to make our system affordable. One idea we are pursuing is the concept of 3D advertising. Since the air vents can be 3D printed, it is easy to make them as custom designed shapes to represent clients’ products or ambient […]
First installation of ViruBustor in a bus
We now have our system installed in a bus. After 3D-scanning the engine compartment, we could 3D-print components that were surprisingly simple to install. Here you see ViruBustor co-founder, Marvin Siebert, testing the airflow, where we found that we were extracting around 3000 litres per minute from each of the 3 vents. By comparison, a […]
Bench testing of the ViruBustor installation
We now have a prototype of the ViruBustor system installed on an ambulance that we are using as a research vehicle. To check that our system doesn’t reduce the power of the engine or affect the driving characteristics, we visit PBZ tuning in Uppsala, who have one of the most advanced dynamometers on the market. […]
ViruBustor gets one year of funding from Vinnova
Today we were delighted to hear that we were granted funding for the next year by the Swedish innovation agency Vinnova. This will allow us to develop more sophisticated prototypes and move on to other vehicles. Thank you Vinnova !
ViruBustor joins the fight against Covid19
With the pandemic entering the second wave, we have been looking for ways to help, and have come up a simple and cost-effective way to reduce the levels of viruses in vehicle cabins by using the the power of the engine to pump air from where the passengers are, and into the combustion chambers, where […]