FFI — Strategic Vehicle Research and Innovation

FFI Zero-Emission, Sustainable and Energy-Efficient Vehicles

Funds Swedish vehicle developers building fossil-free and electrified vehicles through FFI research and innovation grants with required industry co-financing.

⚠ This may reflect a past cycle — verify the current call on the funder's site.

FFI Zero-Emission, Sustainable and Energy-Efficient Vehicles (Swedish: FFI Nollutsläpp – hållbara och energieffektiva fordon) is a research and innovation grant call run by the Swedish Energy Agency (Energimyndigheten) within the FFI program — Fordonsstrategisk Forskning och Innovation, a long-running vehicle-strategic research and innovation partnership between the Swedish state and the automotive industry. The call funds projects that develop and integrate fossil-free and electrified vehicles.

The total budget for the call is about SEK 90 million, shared across all funded projects. The source page does not state a per-project minimum or maximum grant, so the amount any single project can receive is not published here. Every project must include co-financing from industry (näringslivet), so applicants are expected to put in their own or partner money alongside the grant.

The call is open to any actor that can contribute to its goals. The page lists examples: companies, the public sector, the social-science, humanities, technical and natural-science faculties of universities and university colleges, and research institutes. For-profit companies apply directly. Because industry co-financing is mandatory in every project, business participation is built into the structure of each application.

Applications were submitted through the Swedish Energy Agency's e-services portal, with the last day for this round being 18 March 2026 at 23:59. The page directs applicants to the full call text (fullständig utlysningstext) for the detailed eligibility, scope, and assessment rules, which are not reproduced on the summary page. FFI runs recurring calls, so a future round is expected after this deadline passes.

A few practical caveats: the per-project award size is not published on this page, so plan the budget against the full call text rather than a stated cap; the application and supporting documents are in Swedish; and the mandatory industry co-financing means a project without a committed business partner is unlikely to qualify.