13 Nov Advanced Propulsion Centre UK: Advance readiness for manufacturing with Feasibility Studies
Advance readiness for manufacturing with Feasibility Studies
Validate your business case to enable rapid scale-up of UK-based manufacturing facilities for innovative zero emission vehicle technologies.
About this competition
The route to scaling-up production requires distinct phases of technology and manufacturing development, and evaluation is one.
The Feasibility Studies competition provides you with a unique opportunity to produce a decision-ready business case and gain validation for future investment to scale-up production.
Open to UK-registered businesses, this planning, business and investment case can be across pilot scale, demonstration scale or full-industrial scale facilities for zero-emission technologies. Once the technology has been validated, applicants can apply for the next stages of funding, the Scale-up Fund or the Automotive Transformation Fund.
Please note:
- Applicant Q&A webinar: 19 November 2025. Join at 12:30pm here.
- Application deadline: 17 December 2025
- Applicants informed: 4 March 2026
- Projects start: 1 May 2026
Eligibility
To be eligible you must:
- Have a grant-funding request of between £150,000 to £750,000
- Have a maximum of 50% grant funding for a large organisation, or 60% for an SME. For example:
- if you are applying as a large organisation and requesting £300,000 in grant, your total eligible project costs need to be a minimum of £600,000
- if you are applying as an SME and requesting £300,000 in grant, your total eligible project costs need to be a minimum of £500,000
- Have a product proposed for scale-up at a minimum of TRL5 or MRL4
- Complete your project within 9 months
- Be a single applicant, but we are open to applications with substantial subcontracts
- Primarily enable scale-up in the UK automotive sector, but spillover to or from other sectors is welcomed
- Carry out the project work in the UK
- Exploit the outcomes in the UK
Scope
- To be eligible, business cases must be for:
- Electrical energy storage: Development of batteries, supercapacitors, their components, management, and integrated systems
- Electric machines and associated driveline
- Power electronics including Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X)
- Internal combustion engine (ICE) for off-road applications, we will fund project proposals that support a transition to zero emissions, utilising non-fossil fuels
- Lightweight vehicle and powertrain structures
- Fuel-cell systems and associated balance of plant
- Hydrogen storage and management systems
- Zero-emission vehicle assembly
For a more detailed scope outline, visit the IFS website.