Deadline: 14-Sep-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.
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.
Priorities
- 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
- 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
- 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).
- To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be a UK registered:
For more information, visit https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1274/overview/eb3963e4-eee1-41a3-a332-b2595f2f3f33