Automotive Transformation Fund – United Kingdom

Deadline: 21-Jul-21

Applications are now open for the Automotive Transformation Fund Round 12, a new programme that aims to establish a competitive and sustainable UK supply chain.

It offers a share of up to £1 billion of funding for capital and associated industrial research projects. This will be to support the industrialisation of a high value, electrified automotive supply at scale in the UK.

Scope

Your project must support the industrialisation at scale of an electrified automotive supply chain.
It must be appropriate and in proportion to the planned objectives and prioritisation of the Automotive Transformation Fund.

Specific themes

Your project can focus on one or more of the following:

Batteries
- cathode materials and manufacturing
- anode materials and manufacturing
- electrolyte
- cell assembly components (including separators)
- cell or module assembly
- cell testing
- battery pack components
- battery pack assembly and test
Motors and drives
- magnet materials and manufacturing
- electrical steel materials and manufacturing
- electrical machine assembly
- drive line components
- assembly and test into complete drive unit
Power electronics
- wide band gap semi-conductors
- sensors
- passives
- power electronics assembly
Fuel cell
- MEA
- catalysts
- bipolar plates
- gas diffusion layer
- air handling systems
- balance of plant
- fuel cell stack assembly
- storage tanks
- fuel delivery (where specifically required for development purposes)
Recycling
- e-motors
- batteries
- fuel cells
- power electronics

Funding Information

They have allocated a share of up to £1 billion to fund capital focused projects in this competition.

Eligibility Criteria

Lead organisation
- To lead a project or work alone your organisation must:
  - be a business of any size
  - carry out its project work in the UK
  - intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
  - address the requirements of the Automotive Transformation Fund
Project team
- To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must:
  - be a business, academic institution, charity, not-for-profit, public sector organisation or research and technology organisation (RTO)
  - carry out its project work in the UK
  - intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
  - be invited by the lead organisation
Subcontractors
- Subcontractors are allowed in this competition. Subcontractors can be from anywhere in the UK and you must select them through your usual procurement process.
- You can use subcontractors from overseas but must make the case in question 6 for why you could not use suppliers from the UK.
- You must also provide a detailed rationale, evidence of the potential UK contractors you approached and the reasons why they were unable to work with you.