At the end of July, the automotive industry turned its attention to Zalaegerszeg for a week, where the Formula Student East international student design competition was held in combustion engine, electric car and autonomous driving categories. For the second time, the city hosted Formula Student East, where more than 2,500 talented students from all over…
The company responsible for the research and development utilization of the proving ground, ZalaZONE InnoTech, is working on the development of a container energy system with battery storage that uses solar and wind energy. Humanity’s biggest socio-technical challenge is the “green transition”, the radical reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. Two key areas in this are…
On Tuesday night, folk dancers took over some modules of the ZalaZONE Automotive Proving Ground. Zalai Dance Ensemble and Kósart Dance Club shot a video clip of the choreography made for the English-Japanese rap soundtrack Tokyo Drift in the action film “The Fast and the Furious”. The production was created last year for the World…
Formula Student is quite simply the best engineering design competition in the world. Student teams are tasked to conceptualize, engineer, manufacture, and compete with a single-seater car. With rules focusing on safety and fostering innovation, the cars often employ technologies not seen in other motorsport disciplines. However, the true product of the competition are the…
On May 16th, “Mobility Forum 2024 Vienna” was organized at the Hungarian Embassy in Vienna. The forum offered the opportunity to present the ZalaZONE ecosystem (test track and science park) to the relevant Austrian expert audience. After the welcoming speech by Ambassador Edit Szilágyiné Bátorfi, Zoltán Hamar, Managing Director of AVL-ZalaZONE Ltd. and Mario Brunner,…
On initiative and under the leadership of Némotrans International Transport Ltd., in partnership with Novareg Ltd., IVECO ETV, Shell, Top Solar, ZalaZONE Research and Technology Center, Vehicle Industry Research Center of Széchenyi István University, with the BTI Management Foundation and ZalaZONE InnoTech Nonprofit Ltd, the NémoGREEN project will be implemented between September and December 2023.…
ZalaZONE PANCAKE – ON ZalaZONE InnoTech’s cooking team also participated in the traditional AquaCity Charity Day on the 13th of August. In the program organized by the Municipality of Zalaegerszeg for the 21st time, Zalaegerszeg’s public figures, representatives of the city’s businesses, institutions, and non-profit organizations prepared and sold food for fundraising. This year, 58…
One of the key missions of the ZalaZONE InnoTech is to introduce the Automotive Proving Ground near the city of Zalaegerszeg and its activities to the local community, especially to the young generations. As part of our socialization program launched at the beginning of the year, we have been contacted local schools and organized thematic…
On 6th July, Zala ZONE Research and Innovation and Széchenyi István University invited scientific and technological attachés of the Hungarian embassies to the ZalaZONE Automotive Proving Ground. he event was attended by diplomats representing the embassies of Beijing, New Delhi, Seoul, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Moscow, Paris, London, Berlin, Vienna, as well as the consulates general…
ZalaZONE Research & Innovation was happy to host the Formula Student Easter organized by the Association of Automotive Engineers on the ZalaZONE Automotive Proving Ground! Formula Student is an international engineering design competition first held by the Society of Automotive Engineers in 1979 in the US. The goal is to develop and provide a platform for student engineers…
