Welcome to the Annual Seminar on Zero-Emission Heavy-Duty Transport
SIX HOVE
SIX HOVE
When: Tuesday 23.9.2025 at 9 - 16
Where: Innopoli 1, Tekniikantie 12, Espoo, room Leonardo
Please register by Tuesday, 16th of September via the registration page.
Provisional programme (subject to changes)
09:00-10:00 (Registration starts at 8:30)
Session 1:
1. Opening: zero-emission transport – value network, challenges and opportunities – Jarkko Vesa, TEM (10 min)
2. Introduction, programme of the day, Mikko Pihlatie (5 min)
3. Policy update: actions driving decarbonisation of heavy-duty transport – Saara Jääskeläinen & Sara Österberg, Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications (15 min)
4. SIX HOVE roadmap and position – Harri Nieminen, VTT (20 min)
5. Way forward towards heavy duty transport electrification – Markku Kivistö, BF (10 min)
10:15 – 10:45
Coffee break & networking
10:45 – 12:00
Session 2a: SIX HOVE, industry and pilots
5. Rauanheimo experience with heavy-duty retrofits – Pasi Salmela, Rauanheimo & Jukka Pellinen, Keulink (15 min)
6. Posti strategy for zero-emission transports – Kari Mäkynen, Posti (15 min)
7. SSAB industrial transports – Minna van der Most, SSAB & Jussi Saukkonen, Kuljettava Oy (15 min)
8. Battery truck with FC extension for piloting in ESCALATE – Juho Laine, SISU (15 min)
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch (60 min)
Tentative: zero-emission trucks on display outside Innopoli (30 min)
13:30 – 14:15
Session 2b
9. Megawatt charging with MCS in ESCALATE & MACBETH projects – Ville Naumanen, Kempower & Marko Antila, VTT (15 min)
10. Plugit HDV charging network development– Joona Töyräs, Plugit (15 min)
11. Challenges and opportunities in organising charging for transport electrification in ports – Jani Lindroos, Port of Helsinki (15 min)
14:15-14:45
Coffee break & networking
14:45-16:00
Session 3: Research results
12. Spatio-temporal charging demand analysis Finland – Antonio Fadel da Costa/Nino Chkhartishvili, VTT (15 min)
13. Trip chain analysis of electric truck charging demand – Mehdi Jahangir Samet, TAU (15 min)
14. Energy consumption analysis for HDV vs GVW and conditions – Mikaela Ranta, VTT (10 min)
15. WeTRaC: Scalable EV Charging Demand Forecasting for Heavy-Duty Fleets – Alex Aushev, VTT (10 min)
16. On system-level analysis and techno-economics of BET – VTT (10 min)
17. TAU & VTT MSc theses summaries:
- Production cost of charging as a service – Niilo Kantoniemi, VTT (5 min)
- Battery swapping technology – Sepideh Salehi Barzegar, TAU (5 min)
- Truck use patterns and electric truck charging – Pekka Heininen, TAU (5 min)
18. Concluding remarks and way forward – Johannes Hyrynen, VTT
Moderators: Mikko Pihlatie, VTT & Heikki Liimatainen, VERNE
