Fin­land’s first hydro­gen truck to arrive in Oulu in late sum­mer

The Edu­ca­tion­al Con­sor­tium OSAO has signed an agree­ment with the Dutch com­pa­ny Holthausen Clean Tech­nolo­gies to deliv­er Fin­land’s first hydro­gen truck for road use. The vehi­cle is sched­uled for deliv­ery in August–September 2026.

The pro­cure­ment is part of the joint VISIOK project by OSAO, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu and Oulu Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences, which devel­ops learn­ing and research envi­ron­ments in line with the green tran­si­tion and strength­ens the role of voca­tion­al edu­ca­tion in the intro­duc­tion of new tech­nol­o­gy. In con­nec­tion with the intro­duc­tion of the hydro­gen truck, an exten­sive test­ing and research pack­age will be car­ried out in coop­er­a­tion with the Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu.

The aim is to pro­duce prac­ti­cal infor­ma­tion on the suit­abil­i­ty of dif­fer­ent propul­sion sys­tems for the needs of heavy trans­port. The test­ing will com­pare the ener­gy con­sump­tion, func­tion­al­i­ty and suit­abil­i­ty of hydro­gen, elec­tric and diesel-pow­ered heavy equip­ment for var­i­ous trans­port tasks. In addi­tion, the vehi­cle’s key tech­ni­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics, such as oper­at­ing range and ener­gy con­sump­tion, which direct­ly affect usabil­i­ty and oper­a­tional effi­cien­cy, will be exam­ined.

The hydro­gen truck will be inte­grat­ed into OSAO’s learn­ing envi­ron­ments, where voca­tion­al edu­ca­tion stu­dents and teach­ers will have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to work with new tech­nol­o­gy in prac­tice. The pro­cure­ment sup­ports the broad­er goal of build­ing a hydro­gen econ­o­my com­pe­tence cen­ter in North­ern Fin­land, where voca­tion­al edu­ca­tion, research and busi­ness coop­er­a­tion are close­ly linked.

In addi­tion to hydro­gen tech­nol­o­gy, the VISIOK project, co-fund­ed by the Euro­pean Union, will devel­op oth­er sus­tain­able logis­tics solu­tions and dig­i­tal learn­ing envi­ron­ments. The project com­bines research, edu­ca­tion and prac­ti­cal exper­i­ments, and its goal is to meet the chang­ing skills needs of work­ing life. At the same time, the role of the Oulu region as a pio­neer in the green tran­si­tion and sup­port Fin­land’s car­bon neu­tral­i­ty goals.

The project has been pre­pared in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Oulu Inno­va­tion Alliance, and the City of Oulu is also a co-financier. The total bud­get of the project is over 4 mil­lion euros.

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Pic­ture: Johan­na Pelko­nen, OSAO