Deadline: 1-Mar-23
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1 billion for capital centric investment projects that help industrialise the electrified automotive supply chain at scale in the UK.
Your proposal 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 focus on one or more of the following:
- Batteries including cells (’gigafactories’)
- Electric motors and drives
- Power electronics
- Fuel cells
- Upstream supply chain for, batteries including cells, electric motors and drives, power electronics or fuel cells
Specific Themes
- Your project must focus on one or more of the following:
- Batteries including cells (’gigafactories’)
- cathode materials and manufacturing
- anode materials and manufacturing
- electrolyte
- cell assembly components (including separators)
- Electric 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 cells
- Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA)
- fuel cell stack assembly
- storage tanks
- Upstream Supply Chain including:
- raw materials
- component manufacturing
- sub-assembly manufacturing
- Batteries including cells (’gigafactories’)
Funding Information
- Up to £1 billion has been allocated to fund capital focused projects in this competition.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your Project
- Your total project costs and project duration must be strongly aligned to the Automotive Transformation Fund (ATF). To be eligible your project must request a minimum of £1 million in grant against your total eligible project costs.
- Under current restrictions, this competition will not fund any procurement, commercial, business development or supply chain activity with any Russian or Belarusian entity as lead, partner or subcontractor. This includes any goods or services originating from a Russian or Belarusian source.
- If your project’s total costs or duration falls outside of their eligibility criteria, you must provide justification by at least 10 working days before the competition closes. They will decide whether to approve your request. If you have not requested approval or your application has not been approved by us, you will be made ineligible. Your application will then not be sent for assessment.
- Lead Organisation
- To lead a project or work alone your organisation must:
- be a UK registered 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
- To lead a project or work alone your organisation must:
- Project Team
- To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be a UK registered:
- business of any size
- academic institution
- charity
- not-for-profit
- public sector organisation
- research and technology organisation (RTO)
- Non-UK businesses can be invited to partner in this expression of interest (EoI) competition in reference to activities they are considering undertaking in the UK. The business must be registered in the UK before any funding can be awarded.
- To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be a UK registered:
Ineligible
- They are not funding projects that:
- do not transform the automotive industry through significant business or production expansion
- are not centred around a product, process or technology that you have already demonstrated
- are not confirmed as technically and economically feasible
- have a primary focus on recycling
- focus on assembly or components related to battery packs or battery modules, other than those listed in the specific themes section
- focus on cell testing, module testing or battery pack testing
- focus on fuel cell components other than those listed in the specific themes section
- focus on sub assembly manufacturing of air handling systems or balance of plant for fuel cells
- include investment in final electric vehicle assembly at original equipment manufacturers (OEM).
For more information, visit Innovate UK.