Automotive Transformation Fund Feasibility Studies: Round 5
The Automotive Transformation Fund is delivered by the Department of Business and Trade in partnership with the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC), Innovate UK and partners. It supports the industrialisation at scale of a high value electrified automotive supply chain in the UK.
The aim of this competition is to fund feasibility studies which must produce a decision ready business case. This is in preparation for projects which will develop large scale manufacturing facilities in the UK.
Priority will be given to projects which have particular focus on a circular materials economy. This can include, but is not limited to recycling of critical materials; design for disassembly and materials recovery; remanufacturing and reuse of components. Applications from specialist cell, module, and cell to pack are also encouraged.
Projects must have a grant funding request of between £200,000 and £500,000, be a maximum of 50% grant funded, last up to six months, carry out all of its project work in the UK, intend to exploit the results from or in the UK, start by 1 October 2024, and end by 31 March 2025.
Application deadline: 17 July 2024 11:00am. If you would like to discuss this with someone in our team please message our Sector Lead, Yuchen Gu