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In 1970 Gillbrand became manager of Saab-Scania's engine laboratory in Södertälje, where he was in charge when Saab became the first car manufacturer to use small turbochargers in gasoline engines, along with technologies such as the wastegate found in most modern turbocharged engines today. For his
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