Pedal Car Factory - a modern, digitalised and accessible learning environment
The project involves both making the factory accessible to more student programmes and target groups on KTH Campus and digitalising the practical learning from idea to workshop. This creates a unique combination of experiential training in a “real” (partially) digitalised production environment.
Project context
The Pedal Car Factory is a strategically important innovation and educational resource that has contributed to strengthening KTH's profile in industry-related education, digitalisation and systematic improvement work. It was moved to KTH Campus from KTH Södertälje in the summer of 2025, which created an opportunity to develop the factory further via connecting the practical learning to digitalisation, and making the factory accessible to more student programmes and target groups. Already today, many students experience that the Pedal Car Factory provides a "security" in practically working in a production environment. The project provides an increased opportunity to gain both practical and digital experience in a lab environment.
Purpose (outcome)
The aim of the project is to further develop the Pedal Car Factory into a modern, digitalised learning environment that meets the needs of research, student education, business, lifelong learning and external assignments and hence expand accessibility to a unique combination of experiential training in a "real" production environment with digitalised elements. The environment should be flexible enough to broaden use, improve occupancy throughout the year and make the environment accessible to a wider target group.
Project results (output)
- Increased accessibility to, and digitalisation of, the Pedal Car Factory on the KTH Campus.
Time plan
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2025-12-10
Project documentation
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Poster: The project’s first poster (in Swedish) will be available at the ”Storträffen” meetup on 2025-12-01
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Project initiation document: Projektdirektiv_FrU25_2520-ITM_Trampbilsfabriken_250529 (Swedish)