Neste and European automotive and biofuels industry players join forces on a Tour d'Europe

Neste Corporation, News, 28 March 2025

Tour d’Europe is an initiative demonstrating the availability and potential of renewable fuels to help drive decarbonization and contribute to climate neutrality today and for decades to come. The Tour d’Europe involves 20 different companies, associations and institutions from across the automotive and fuels value chain. 

Neste is the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and one of the companies contributing to the Tour d’Europe initiative. The tour stops e.g. at some of the Neste stations in the Baltics and will also pass through Neste refineries in Porvoo, Finland and in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. 

Three-month journey across Europe

Cars and trucks bearing a distinctive “Tour d’Europe” logo started on the 25th March, a three-month road trip across several countries to demonstrate the decarbonization potential provided by renewable fuels, to raise awareness about their accessibility and ease of use in Europe, and to underline their significant role in reaching the EU's objective of climate neutrality by 2050. 

The Tour d’Europe, spanning from North to South and West to East, will show citizens and policymakers across the EU that renewable fuels are a flexible, technology-open approach to significant emission reductions in road transport alongside other technologies that can decarbonize road transport (such as electrification and hydrogen). As an existing, readily-available solution, renewable fuels are delivering measurable greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction results already today. 

During the Tour d’Europe, light-duty and heavy-duty vehicles powered by renewable fuels will stop in multiple cities hosting events that enable a dialogue with local stakeholders on the importance of reducing transport emissions and mitigating climate change together. The Tour d’Europe cars and trucks are equipped with an additional software tool “digital fuel twin” (DFT) that will verify and prove the use of renewable fuels and the resulting reductions in CO₂ emissions. 

At events in several locations in 23 countries, the Tour d’Europe will highlight that:  

• renewable fuels have a crucial role in decarbonizing road transport;
• renewable fuels can achieve zero GHG emissions during use phase, as the carbon released upon combustion equals the amount absorbed or captured earlier in the life cycle;
• EU policy should be open to all technologies with a proven track record of reducing GHG emissions; 
• renewable fuels are a solution widely available already today, easy to use, and suitable for existing fuel infrastructure and vehicles; 
• the use of renewable fuels and the CO₂ intensity of fuels can be monitored and verified at the vehicle level; 
• technology neutrality should be an essential principle for all vehicle segments to reaching the EU's 2050 climate goals for the benefit of European citizens and businesses; 
• renewable fuels are an immediate, affordable and accessible solution, enabling all Europeans to take part in the energy transition.

The Tour d’Europe will cross the finish line on 23 June in Brussels, with a display of vehicles and technologies outside the European Parliament. The event will feature the release of a report verifying the use of renewable fuels as well as the greenhouse gas emission reduction received during the Tour d’Europe and demonstrating the effectiveness of the digital fuel twin (DFT). 

The companies, associations and institutions involved in the project are AVIA, BMW, Bosch, Collective du Bioéthanol, DAF Trucks, Daimler Truck, EBB, Enilive, EWABA, Eurogas, ePURE, Ford Trucks / TJA, FuelsEurope, Hyundai, Iveco, IRU, Moeve, PRIO, Repsol, University Darmstadt, University Karlsruhe, VDA and VW, and Neste. 

For more information about Tour d’Europe events and the benefits of renewable fuels, visit https://www.neste.com/news-and-insights/events/transportation/tour-europe

Further information: Please contact Neste's media service, tel. +358 800 94025 / media@neste.com (weekdays from 8.30 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. EET). Please subscribe to Neste’s releases at https://www.neste.com/media/subscribe. 

Neste in brief

Neste (NESTE, Nasdaq Helsinki) creates solutions for mitigating climate change and accelerating a shift to a circular economy. The company is the world’s leading producer of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel, enabling its customers to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Neste refines waste, residues and other renewable raw materials to high-quality renewable fuels at its refineries located on three continents. The company’s annual renewable fuels production capacity will be increased to 6.8 million tons in 2027. 

Neste has high standards for sustainability and the company has consistently been recognized by several leading sustainability indices. In 2024, Neste's revenue stood at EUR 20.6 billion. Read more: neste.com