FFI's annual report 2025

Since its inception in 2009, FFI has financed research and innovation for the transition of road transport to a sustainable society. Each year, the state and the automotive industry together contribute approximately one billion kronor to funding via FFI.

The 2025 operating year in numbers

In 2025, FFI granted over SEK 415 million to 98 new project. Co-financing was SEK 411 million.

The projects are distributed across the program's five collaborative sub-programs:

Accelerate: 11 granted project (119.6 million SEK) – with a focus on large-scale system demonstrations in real environments, such as electrified transportation in the mining and construction sectors, as well as preparatory projects in areas such as automation and passenger transport.

Zero emissions: 27 granted project (101.5 million SEK) – with investments in areas such as battery replacement systems for electric motors, smart charging, battery replacement systems for work machines, hydrogen combustion engine systems, and particle emissions and their health effects.

Traffic safety automation: 17 granted project (79.6 million SEK) – which addresses next-generation autonomous driving systems, user experience and real-time sensors for traffic safety.

Transport and mobility solutions: 21 grants project (54.7 million SEK) – with a focus on secure data sharing, digital twins and forensics, among other things. The portfolio has also been broadened by project, which is developing a scalable platform for public transport tickets and data sharing for car sharing.

Circularity: 22 granted project (51.9 million SEK) – with investments in everything from digitalisation and AI to circular working methods and collaboration and the role of humans in supporting the transition from linear to circular business models.

Highlights and strategic initiatives during the year

ASP 2.0: Pilotinsatsen Accelerate Startup Partnership 1.0 was completed and evaluated. The conclusion – a successful model for collaboration between tech startups and established Swedish industrial companies. The effort is now followed by a broader effort in Accelerated Startup Partnership 2.0 (ASP).

Knowledge dissemination: During the year, FFI conducted a well-attended webinar series in collaboration with Ny Teknik Education to increase expertise and engage more people in the transformation of road transport.

New leadership: In 2025, Jan Söderström took over as the new chairman of the board and Andreas Allström took over as the new program manager for FFI.

International positioning: Work has begun to strengthen Sweden's role globally and take FFI's working methods and solutions to international collaborations, with the first efforts planned for 2026.

Long-term effects (2009–2025)

Since the program's start in 2009, FFI has granted a total of 1,693 project with a total budget of SEK 17 billion. This has resulted in, among other things:

• 319 doctoral degrees and 286 licentiate degrees.
• Over 4,200 scientific publications.
• 242 results introduced to the market and 768 results transferred directly to product development projects.

The report describes FFI in its entirety; its mission, organisation, roadmap, activities and results.