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EVS 24 Stavanger
Report from EVS 24 in Stavanger
2009.05.15
EVS, this year the "24th International, Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Conference & Symposium", are arranged every third year in Europe. In the years inbetween it is held in Asia and then America. For the first time it was located in Norway, in our oil capitol Stavanger. 40 years after it first was arranged in 1969. See my images from the the test drive and exhibitionhere or visit www.evs24.org for more information.
TH!NK city produced in Finland
TH!NK city production moved to Valmet in Finland
2009.12.10
Today the first customer cars were assembled at Valmet Automotive's plant in Uusikaupunki in Finland. After a difficult financial period during 2009 Think Global decided to outsource production. Ten years after the new factory at Aurskog were officially opened, an era for norwegian automotive industry seems to be over. The first EVs named CityBee were made at the old Aurskog plant from 1993, about 130 were made. More than 1.000 of the frst generation TH!NK city were assembled from 1999. From 2007 some hundred of the new TH!NK city were produced. Hopefully many thousands will be made in Finland during the next years!
Electric Car Rally
Electric car rally in Langangen
2009.05.11
This afternoon the EVS Viking Rally 2009 passed Larvik on the way between Oslo and Stavanger. A hill climb competion was arranged in Langangen in Telemark. This small village has a famous road called "Korketrekker'n" (cork screw). You can see some of my images from the event here.
Giugiaro Frazer-Nash Namir
Report from the 79th Geneva motorshow
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9.03.02
This years Geneva show also displayed a larger amount of electric cars. There were not really any big news, not that many interesting showcars, but some interesting new cars. The biggest surprise was the Giugiaro concept Frazer-Nash Namir (image at left). With a hybrid drivetrain from my earlier colleagues at Frazer-Nash. See my images from the show here.
GeirrTveitt
www.GeirrTveitt.com established
2009.02.01
The 100th anniversary of the composer Geirr Tveitt and the poet Olav H. Hauge is coming to an end. The material published and collected by the Hauge-Tveitt jubilee foundation was last week transferred to Bergen public library. The webpage will still be available, but not be updated anymore. The webpages I generated for Geirr Tveitt's discograpy, music scores, radio recordings etc. will still be updated and is today moved to the new webpages at www.GeirrTveitt.com, a domene owned by the Tveitt family.
Think with financial problems
2008.12.18
Think Global AS today announced they will start debt settlement. See the Think webpage www.thinkev.com for latest new.
Norsk Form
Think receives "Honour Award for Design 2008 " from Norsk Form
2008.11.20
Norsk Form (Foundation for Design and Architecture in Norway) today awarded Think with Hedersprisen 2008 (The Honour Award for Design) for its long lasting engagement in designing, developing and producing environmental friendly vehicles for the future. Read more here.
Think City bi-halogen headlamp
New bi-halogen headlamp for Think
2008.11.10
Today production of the new TH!NK city was re-started at Aurskog. The first cars will all have the newly developed bi-halogen headlamp designed by Stig Olav Skeie together with the supplier. The headlamp will be optional to the standard H4 headlamp that was re-designed during 2007 with support from Skeie Industridesign.
Geirr Tveitt biography
Geirr Tveitt biography launched at Litteraturhuset in Oslo
2008.10.10
Today Reidar Storaas will present his new biography about the great norwegian composer Geirr Tveitt. At the launch at Litteraturhuset (The House of Literature) in Oslo, Stig Olav Skeie will also held a short presentation about his part of the book, the discography. Lars Klevstrand will perform some of the composers songs. On Thursday Storaas will present the book in Bergen and on Saturday the biography will be presented in Norheimsund, Hardanger. Here I will held a longer presentation about the composers recordings. Geir Botnen will perform some pieces from the composers Fifty Folk-Tunes from Hardanger. Velcome!
Swims2008
New Swims press photos
2008.09.30
Marius Ektvedt has once again taken some nice photos of the Swims galoshes for the 2008/2009 catalogue. You can see more of the images on the >Swims Classic
pages and the >Swims Ballerina pages.
Geirr Tveitt discography
Geirr Tveitt webpages launched
2008.05.08
Today the discography of Geirr Tveitt recordings was published on the Hauge-Tveitt jubilee foundation 2008's webpages www.ht08.no. I have the last year been engaged by the foundation celebrating the 100th anniversary of the composer Geirr Tveitt and the poet Olav H. Hauge, both living in Hardanger and born in 1908. My task have been to complete the discography of the composers music, listen through all his broadcast recordings in NRK, his music notes and scores and present the material on internet (sofar only in norwegian).
Stig Olav Skeie to work full-time for Think
2008.05.01
Ater having been working as a consultant for Think the two last years I today accepted to join Think's extended design team on full time. The design staff consist of three industrial designers, a project manager and a project co-ordinator.

Skeie Industridesign will still be active with the existing office in Stavern, but will not have capacity for new clients.
Think Ox concept car
Think Ox concept car presented at the Geneva motorshow
2008.03.05
At the second Press Day of the Geneva motorshow the concept car TH!NK Ox was launched. It is an electric five-door family car with five seats and shows how a future TH!NK may look. Designed and built by external design and engineering teams together with Katinka von der Lippe and Stig Olav Skeie representing Think. See images from the exhibition here.
Think infotainment concept
New infotainment concept presented at the Geneva motorshow
2008.03.04
Today the Geneva motorshow opened for the press. On Think's stand there are two cars equipped with a new infotainment concept, a THINK city and a TH!NK open. Skeie Industridesign was engaged to develop the concept together with a San Francisco based soft-/hardware company and Thinks design and modelshop teams.
HumanCAD ManneQuinPRO
HumanCAD's ManneQuinPRO software obtained
2008.01.28
Today ManneQuin PRO from NexGen Ergonomics were purchased. I have been using the predecessor of this ergonomic CAD software since 1993/94. Back then it was DOS-based. The new software is a Windows version and are equipped with many more functions and an improved user-interface. More advanced 3D human models are also integrated in a variety of sizes and nationalities. Also skeleton models can be generated. Read more at www. nexgenergonomics.com
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