Deadline: 15-Mar-23
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £20 million for late-stage R&D projects that help accelerate the UK towards a net zero automotive future.
The Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) provides funding, support, insight and foresight for the development of low emission transport solutions, and automotive technologies. It aims to support the UK’s transition towards net zero product manufacturing and supply chain in the UK automotive sector.
They are looking for collaborative, pre-production research and development (R&D) projects that:
- Support the UK’s long-term vision and underpinning capabilities by securing long term R&D investment
- Achieve through the associated supply chain, the design, build, test and manufacture of net-zero carbon emission vehicles
Specific Themes
- You must consider which technology or technologies best represent your project and rank them in order of their significance and impact to your project. The one ranked first must be the lead technology.
- Electric machines and power electronics
- Energy storage and energy management
- Lightweight vehicles and powertrain structures
- Fuel cell and associated balance of plant
- Thermal propulsion systems and alternative fuels
- Digitalisation for development of low carbon vehicle innovation, data analytics, redesign, test and validation and verification.
Funding Information
- Your project’s total grant funding request must be between £2.5 million and £20 million. Your project must be a minimum of 50% match-funded, with a suggested maximum number of six partners.
Eligible Project
- Contribute to the UK’s strategic aims and direction of travel towards net zero transport vision, such as the Automotive Council’s Roadmaps
- Deliver on-vehicle technologies and or associated manufacturing processes which support the transition to net zero
- Support growth, transition and security of the UK’s automotive supply chain, increasing capability, whilst improving productivity, efficiency and competitiveness.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your project must:
- Have total grant funding request between £2.5 million and £20 million
- Be a minimum of 50% match-funded
- Start by 1 October 2023
- Last between 18 and 42 months
- Carry out all of its project work in the UK
- Intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
- Lead Organisation
- To lead a project your organisation must:
- Be a UK registered business of any size
- Have an active registered business base in the UK
- Be a grant recipient
- Collaborate with other UK registered organisations
- To lead a project your organisation must:
- Project Team
- To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
- Business of any size
- Academic institution
- Charity
- Not for profit
- Public sector organisation
- Research and technology organisation (RTO).
For more information, visit APC23.