Deadline: 14-Dec-22
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.
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
- The Automotive Transformation Fund provides detailed information on the specific themes of this competition.
- Batteries including cells (’gigafactories’)
Funding Information
- Up to £1 billion has been allocated to fund capital focused projects in this competition.
- No funding is awarded at this EoI stage. Successful applicants from this EoI stage will be invited to a second full stage ATF competition. Funding for the full stage will be in the form of a grant.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your total project costs and project duration must be strongly aligned to the Automotive Transformation Fund (ATF).
- 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.
- 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
- Non-UK businesses can apply to 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 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:
For more information, visit Innovate UK.