The SEALS project aims to make Scandinavia's most important freight corridor fossil-free with self-driving trucks - and thus create a model for the sustainable transport of the future.

Although Denmark, Norway and Sweden are at the forefront when it comes to electric vehicles, heavy road transport is still a major climate challenge. Achieving national and European climate goals requires rapid and extensive electrification of trucks. But the road to get there is full of barriers: lack of charging infrastructure, high costs and uncertainty about the political framework.

The project's ambition

SEALS – Scandinavian Electrified Autonomous Logistics Scale-up – will develop a plan for how the Hamburg–Copenhagen–Gothenburg–Oslo–Trondheim transport corridor can become completely fossil-free by 2035. The project examines electrification with autonomous (self-driving) transport and analyzes what it takes to go from a few electric trucks today to thousands along the same route.

The project focuses on the so-called ÖKS Zero Corridor, which stretches from Hamburg via Copenhagen, Malmö, Gothenburg and Oslo to Trondheim. Here, SEALS conducts analyses, practical tests and dialogue with authorities. A unique part of the project is combining electrification with autonomous technology – something that can spread the charging need over time and reduce infrastructure costs.

In the project we work with:

• Mapping of needs for electricity and charging infrastructure.
• Analysis of where existing infrastructure can be utilized.
• An autonomous transport corridor that makes the Nordic region a leading region.
• A joint roadmap – “The SEAL Deal” – to achieve full fossil fuel independence by 2035.

The project extends from: January 1, 2026 – December 31, 2028