Deadline: 09-Mar-22
The Automotive Transformation Fund is delivered by the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) and partners, Innovate UK, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and Department for International Trade (DIT). It supports the industrialisation at scale of a high-value electrified automotive supply chain in the UK.
APC is seeking proposals from single organisations or consortiums for business case feasibility studies up to the value of £1 million.
These feasibility studies must produce a decision-ready business case, in preparation for projects which will develop large scale manufacturing facilities in the UK.
The resulting projects must support the UK automotive industry in:
- increasing business confidence in making large scale manufacturing investments
- building electrified vehicle supply chains
Themes
Your business case must prioritise the scale up in areas mentioned in the Automotive Transformation Strategy for an electrified supply chain. Your project must prioritise scale up and can focus on but not be limited to:
- batteries, including cells (gigafactories)
- electric motors and drives
- power electronics
- fuel cells and on-vehicle hydrogen storage
- upstream supply chain for: batteries including cells, electric motors and drives, power electronics or fuel cells and on-vehicle hydrogen storage
Funding Information
Your project must:
- have total project costs of no more than £1 million
- produce a suitably detailed and reasoned business case through a feasibility study, to aid a future investment decision
- start on or after the 1 May 2022
- end on or before 31 March 2023
- be completed within 6 months
Eligibility Criteria
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To lead a project or work alone your organisation must:
- be a UK registered business of any size
- be a grant recipient
- carry out its project work in the UK
- intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
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Non-UK registered companies and research organisations are eligible to apply for funding as a lead or part of a project team if they:
- set up an active UK registered business before they start their project
- carry out all funded work in the UK
- meet all other criteria
- Academic institutions cannot lead or work alone.
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To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must:
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be a UK registered business, academic institution, charity, not-for-profit, public sector organisation, research and technology organisation (RTO) or a non-UK registered company or research organisation
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carry out its project work in the UK
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intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
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For more information, visit Innovate UK.
For more information, visit https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1094/overview#summary