Our journey began before the first laboratory experiments in 2017. Having travelled through petroleum-rich regions around the world, our founders saw both the importance of liquid fuels and the challenges created by their fossil origin.
We recognised a simple reality: liquid fuels will remain important, but the way we produce them must evolve. We committed our expertise to developing a locally produced, fossil-free fuel designed to work with existing vehicles and fuel infrastructure.
From research to an operational pilot.
At ETH Zurich, our founders began engineering research focused on technologies that could reduce dependence on fossil resources.
Years of materials and chemical-process research followed. The technical challenges were significant, but the objective remained clear.
Find another way to produce the fuels the world already relies on.
Our development continued at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Empa.
A Swiss government programme focused on synthetic-fuel pathways brought the required expertise together: hardware development, chemistry, fuel analysis and physics.
The goal was clear — convert renewable electricity and sustainable carbon sources into liquid fuel. Our first laboratory test system was designed, built and commissioned.
Not a concept. Not a simulation. A working pathway with the potential to scale.
The first 1 mL of synthetic fuel was produced. Small in volume. Big in meaning.
The system worked.
Production capacity increased by a factor of 100, moving the technology toward continuous chemical processing.
The question was no longer whether it works — but how far it can go.
Gota’s synthetic fuel moved beyond the laboratory and into an existing vehicle.
Fuel designed for the vehicles already in use.
We designed a pilot plant with 10,000-liter fossil-free gasoline production capacity. With a compact footprint of approximately 5 × 1 × 2 metres, it uses simplified chemical reactors to support faster scale-up.
Designed in-house. Powered entirely by electricity.
External laboratory testing confirmed RON 95 gasoline quality.
Quality is not negotiable.
Construction of the pilot plant progressed in-house, within budget and timeline. The system was built by our team rather than outsourced.
Designed here. Built here. Learned from here.
The pilot plant was commissioned and safe operation verified. Each operating step provided another opportunity to test, learn and reduce technical risk.
Technology de-risked step by step.
The first liter of synthetic gasoline was produced at pilot scale. Proprietary catalyst performance was established and the pilot plant became operational.
The fuel speaks for itself.
Daily production of synthetic fuel followed. The process is powered entirely by electricity.
Continuous. Real. Operating.
Work is progressing on the larger demonstrator installation. The photographs show equipment belonging to this next stage of development. The demonstrator is in progress.
The pilot is operating. The demonstrator is being prepared for the next step; the figures below remain future production targets.
Target annual production capacity at demonstrator scale. The present installation has not yet been commissioned.
Building on infrastructure that already exists lets the next scale-up move faster, without constructing a new plant from the ground up.
Real impact begins with real production.
The next commercial-scale target, and a step toward something larger than a single plant.
A model in which fuel is increasingly produced closer to where it is needed, using regional energy and sustainable carbon sources.
Not one plant. A model.
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