Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Business Finland has granted Keliber Technology Oy, a Finnish mining and battery chemical company that aims to start the sustainable production of battery-grade lithium hydroxide utilizing its own ore, investment funding of a maximum of €7 million. Some of Business Finland’s funding has been earmarked for the acquisition of equipment for handling the analcime sand. The project is part of the Smart Mobility and Batteries from Finland programme.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2020

BYD has entered the Finnish market for the first time after securing an order for 106 buses with Nobina, one of Finland’s and Scandinavia’s largest Public Transport Operators (PTOs).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2022

Battery researchers at the University of Eastern Finland have developed a self-standing mesoporous silicon (Si) film anode for lithium-ion batteries. The research was funded by the Academy of Finland (project number 325495).

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EV Obssesion

JULY 2, 2021

Nobina, one of Finland’s and the Nordic region’s principal public transport operators, has taken delivery of 43 50-foot battery-electric buses from BYD, Europe’s and the world’s leading electric bus manufacturer. The post Finland’s First BYD Buses Hit The Road appeared first on EV Obsession.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 6, 2022

The startup announced in a press release that it was switching contract manufacturing partners to Valmet Automotive, which will build the Sion at its factory in Uusikaupunki, Finland.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 20, 2021

Dutch startup Lightyear has selected Finnish contract manufacturer Valmet Automotive to build the Lightyear One solar-supplemented electric car. Prototype builds are scheduled to start in January 2022, followed by full production in summer 2022, Lightyear said in a press release.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Neste is the first company in Finland to provide a service for companies and other organizations to monitor their climate emissions caused by the use of transport fuels. Road transport accounts for more than 90% of the total transport emissions in Finland. This means that Finland’s ambitious goal of being carbon neutral by 2035 requires the use of all available solutions.

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Electrek

JULY 19, 2021

more… The post Lightyear One to be manufactured in Finland by Valmet Automotive appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2021

Finnish Minerals Group and Norway-based FREYR Battery have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to pursue co-operation in implementing a battery cell investment in Finland. One of Finnish Minerals Group’s strategic objectives is to create a sustainable battery value chain in Finland. Now our disclosed strategic partnership with FREYR marks the next logical step in our work to put Finland to the map of European cell plant projects.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 6, 2022

The Sono Sion solar car shifts away from Swedish production—to Finland instead. NHTSA reviews potentially fire-prone EV batteries. And Lexus sets a date for the reveal of its first EV. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2017

The oldest operating ferry in Finland will on Saturday become the nation’s first all-electric passenger vessel after being fitted with Visedo power. The City of Turku will officially re-launch the historic Föri ferry tomorrow, complete with a new zero-emission electric drivetrain that will deliver greater efficiency, less noise and reduced operating costs.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Neste plans to start selling diesel produced entirely from renewable raw materials at selected stations in Finland around the turn of the year. In Finland, Neste Renewable Diesel was used for producing low-emission energy for the Flow festival and Weekend Festival. The new product offers environmentally conscious consumers and corporate customers a sustainable and easy solution for reducing traffic-borne emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2014

Finland now has 21 CBG100 public biogas filling stations—i.e. Screenshot of Finland biogas station map. they sell 100% compressed biogas (CBG). All are automatic stations that are always open (but for two of them a cash option is only available during office hours). These are to be joined by 20 more planned stations by 2016. The Finnish Biogas Association began mapping their locations in 2013.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2017

The distribution of Neste MY Renewable Diesel, produced entirely from waste and residues, has expanded to the Neste Truck network for heavy vehicles in Finland. In addition, the changing temperatures in Finland have also been taken into account in the product, and motorists do not need to worry about any engine failures, even in extremely cold conditions.

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Electrek

APRIL 5, 2022

Sono Motors announced it has signed a term sheet with contract manufacturer, Valmet Automotive, to produce the latter’s Sion solar electric vehicle (SEV) in Finland beginning in 2023.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2014

North European Bio Tech Oy (NEB) has made an investment decision concerning the construction of a bioethanol plant on the Renforsin Ranta industrial estate in Kajaani, Finland. Sawdust and other wood waste is a substantial potential source for ethanol raw material not just in Finland but in the other Nordic countries too. The growing volume of waste-based and residue-based ethanol production also supports Finland’s climate strategy and reduces dependence on imported fossil fuels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

Scandinavian electric vehicle (EV) maker THINK has begun sales of the THINK City EV in Finland with production partner Valmet Automotive. First deliveries of the THINK City in Finland will be to green delivery pioneers A2B, through a new THINK dealership in Helsinki. European production of the THINK City continues in Finland with manufacturing partner Valmet Automotive.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Finland-based bio and forest industries company UPM and WWF Finland have engaged in a dialogue on the status of wood-based liquid biofuels in Finland and present a list of joint measures to be carried out to promote sustainability. —Liisa Rohweder, CEO of WWF Finland. UPM and WWF Finland support new generation biofuels, which considerably reduce greenhouse gas emissions when compared to fossil fuels while meeting credible sustainability criteria.

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2014 Finland Legal Carbon 196

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2017

Sales of Neste MY will begin at Neste service stations in Finland, namely Espoo Piispanmäki, Vantaa Ilmakehä, Helsinki Konala, Espoo Otaniemi, Espoo Olari and Vantaa Varisto. During January, sales of Neste MY will also expand to select Neste Truck stations for heavy traffic in Finland. Companies such as Google and UPS in the United States and DB Schenker and Lassila & Tikanoja in Finland have also decided to reduce their carbon footprint with Neste MY Renewable Diesel.

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2017 Finland Waste Diesel 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2015

Novozymes will supply enzyme technology to a new biorefinery that will be built by St1 Biofuels in Kajaani, Finland. The construction of the biorefinery supports Finland’s climate and energy strategy. It delivers fuels to major Nordic service station chains—ABC, St1 and Shell—with a total of 1,500 service stations in Finland, Sweden and Norway.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2013

DRIVE C2X , a 3.5-year, €18.6-million (US$25.6-million) European research project assessing vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications through field tests ( earlier post ), wrapped up its testing program with winter tests in Tampere, Finland in which they were testing the Weather Warning (WW) function providing drivers with a warning on slippery road conditions ahead.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

The second-generation biomass plant will use energy wood as the main feedstock and it will be the first of its kind, not only in Finland but globally. We find Finland the most interesting country to invest in for biofuels production in the Northern hemisphere. Finland has vast biomass resources, plenty of potential partner companies and an extremely progressive biofuels policy. China-based Kaidi plans to build a €1-billion (US$1.1-billion) biofuel refinery in Kemi.

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2016 Finland Building Tax 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2009

THINK, the Scandinavian electric vehicle (EV) maker, has re-started production of the THINK City—one of the first urban EVs—at a new facility with manufacturing partner Valmet Automotive in Uusikaupunki, Finland. The THINK City in production at Valmet. Click to enlarge. Valmet Automotive is a leading provider of engineering and manufacturing services to the automotive industry and recently became a THINK shareholder and strategic industrial partner.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2014

Neste Oil’s NEXBTL renewable diesel was used to generate electricity at two major events in Finland this summer: the Flow Festival in Helsinki and the Neste Oil Rally Helsinki Battle street circuit race. NEXBTL diesel generated 45% of the electricity used at the Flow Festival and powered the machinery at the festival site. Using the fuel resulted in a 22 ton reduction in emissions, equivalent in emission terms to nearly three round-the-world flights.

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2014 Finland Renewable Oil 186

Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2010

Finland-based European Batteries Oy held the grand opening of its new lithium-ion battery plant which manufactures large format prismatic 42 Ah, 3.2V LiFePO 4 (LFP) cells, modules, packs and systems earlier this month. The annual production capacity is 100 MWh—enough for 3.000 full-electric cars, the company says. Plans have already been made to triple both production capacity and the number of employees.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2013

Forest BtL Oy, owned by Vapo, A Finnish bioenergy, peat and sawmill company, awarded Technip a contract, worth approximately €5 million, for the front-end engineering and design (FEED) of a new biomass-to-liquid (BTL) plant to be built on Ajos island, Finland. In December 2012, the Ajos BtL project, Finland, was selected to receive counterpart funding of €88.5 The project will produce and sell renewable diesel and bionaphta in the Baltic Sea area, with a focus on Finland and Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2011

Envergent Technologies LLC, a Honeywell company, signed a memorandum of understanding with Finland’s Green Fuel Nordic Oy under which the two companies would collaborate on projects to. convert biomass to renewable fuel for use in district heating systems in Finland using Envergent’s RTP rapid thermal processing technology. Finland has targeted that 38% of its energy use be generated from renewable sources by 2020.

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2011 Finland Canada Green 174

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2012

This year’s Balex Delta oil spill response exercise, which is held annually under the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area, is taking place today in the sea area outside Helsinki, Finland. The exercise involves simulation of a major oil tanker accident in the Gulf of Finland, which is one of the most vulnerable and busiest sea areas in the world.

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2012 Finland Oil Mariner 186

InsideEVs

JULY 21, 2021

Lightyear One has chosen contract manufacturer Valmet Automotive to build the One long range solar EV

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

NK electric vehicles Finland helsinki Think Think City Think City EV Valmet Automotive It seems the Finnish people are thinking electric – as Scandinavian electric vehicle maker THINK begins sales in the country. The THINK City EV has been introduced alongside production partner Valmet Automotive with the first deliveries to green delivery pioneers A2B through a new THINK dealership in Helsinki. It is expected that further dealerships will [.].

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2011

Neste Oil’s NExBTL renewable diesel is to be trialed in day-to-day use in Finland by a fleet of road tanker trucks from the beginning of June onwards. The trial will last around a year and will involve 23 vehicles in Neste Oil livery operated by seven different companies. The vehicles will fill up with 100% NExBTL renewable diesel at the Neste Oil Truck station at the distribution terminal adjacent to the company’s Porvoo refinery.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2010

Neste Oil has begun trials of Neste Green 100 diesel—a renewable drop-in hydrocarbon replacement for diesel, not biodiesel (fatty acid methyl esters)—in cars in Finland. The majority of Neste Oil stations in Finland already offer Neste Green diesel, which contains a minimum of 10% renewable diesel blended with conventional diesel fuel.

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Finland 2010 Diesel Renewable 159

Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2009

Forestcluster Ltd. and Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, have launched a 5-year, €50 million (US$63 million) research program (Future Biorefinery, or short FuBio) to develop competence in the processing of wood biomass. The research programme aims at generating innovations that can either be implemented as a part of existing industry operations, or which open up entirely new wood-based value chains.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2009

Finland-based Valmet Automotive, which signed a letter of intent under which Valmet Automotive will be a production and engineering partner for the Think City electric vehicle, will also become a minor shareholder in Think. According to the letter of intent signed by Valmet and Think, the manufacturing of Think electric vehicle will be transferred from Norway to Valmet Automotive’s factory in Uusikaupunki, Finland, this year. Lithium-ion battery manufacturer Ener1, Inc.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Europe Batteries lithium-ion Finland Tesla Motors plug-in cars gigafactoryThe Tesla "gigafactory" near Reno, Nevada, is already billed as the largest lithium-ion battery cell plant in the world. But Tesla has discussed plans for at least one additional gigafactory, presumably to meet demand for battery cells related to large-scale electric-car production outside the U.S. One Finnish city is now making an official bid.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 22, 2011

Fisker's Karma extended-range EV entered production at Valmet's plant in Finland today. The best-looking (for now, anyway) electric-powered vehicle on the market is finally, well, on the market--or nearly so. deliveries of the car are expected to begin next month. That jibes surprisingly well with the information leaked from a dealer meeting

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All Cars Electric

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Think has finally resumed production of their Think City EV at a new manufacturing facility in Finland. Ener1 supplies Think's battery packs, while Valmet Automotive assembles them at their manufacturing plant in Finland. Recently, both Ener1 and Valmet Automotive recapitalized Think to bring their vehicles back to the market. Think's backlog of

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2021

The company has now concluded a thorough study phase concerning the two possible locations, Porvoo, Finland and Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Finland is, and continues to be, the company’s Research, Development and Innovation hub.

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Electrek

DECEMBER 23, 2021

A Tesla Model S owner in Finland decided to blow up his electric car with dynamite after it needed a battery replacement, which Tesla said was going to cost $22,000.

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Finland Electric Cars Cars Batteries 114

Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2022

Over the past weeks Electreon has announced several international deals including a development agreement for commercial wireless charging projects with Destia, Finland’s leading infrastructure services company.

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EV Obssesion

AUGUST 10, 2021

The fulfilment completes Finland’s largest ever electric bus order – a 119-unit order for Nobina – and represents BYD’s second-ever delivery to Finland following the […].

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BYD Finland Transportation Electric Vehicles 89

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Since the founding of Jyrki Nurmimanaged EV Systems in 2018, the division was consistently developed and now employs around 300 people in Finland and currently around 50 people in Germany. Just one year later, in 2019, the first plant for the mass production of battery systems in Salo, Finland, celebrated the start of production. The engineering team has locations in Finland and Germany.

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2020 Finland Batteries Battery 180

Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2021

Johnson Matthey (JM) is partnering with Finnish Minerals Group to support development of its previously announced second eLNO cathode materials ( earlier post ) commercial plant, which will be in Finland, powered solely by renewable energy and incorporating an innovative effluent treatment solution. Finnish Mineral Group manages the Finnish state’s mining industry shareholdings and aims to create an integrated electric vehicle battery value chain in Finland.

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