DRIVE35 Innovation Fund: Collaborate 3

DRIVE35 (Driving Research and Investment in Vehicle Electrification) is a Department for Business and Trade led programme aimed at transforming the UK's automotive industry. This is achieved by supporting R&D and the commercial scale up of innovative zero emission vehicle technologies, and unlocking capital investment in zero emission vehicles, batteries and their wider supply chain. The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) will work with Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, the Advanced Propulsion Centre UK (APC) and the automotive industry and academia, to invest up to £20 million in innovation projects. This is subject to a sufficient number of high quality applications being received. The DRIVE35 Innovation Fund is part of a long term commitment for the driving growth sectors within the governments Industrial Strategy . The aim of DRIVE35 Innovation is to support R&D projects that design, develop and manufacture strategically important technologies in the automotive sector. Your project will support the UK's transition to zero emission vehicles and a pathway to a net zero automotive industry. Your proposal must: support growth, transition and security of the UK's automotive supply chain, increasing capability whilst improving productivity, efficiency and competitiveness contribute to the UK's strategic aims and priorities, such as His Majesty's Government's Industrial Strategy as well as the Automotive Council's Roadmaps and Strategic technology areas enable future scale vehicle manufacture and strengthen high value production for domestic or export markets deliver on-vehicle technologies or enable manufacturing capabilities which support the transition to zero emission vehicles target post project commercialisation with clear articulation on how the innovation will be brought to market or used in an industrial setting create and safeguard high value jobs during the project and through post project impact, which create a lasting economic benefit to the UK support securing long term R&D investment Your project must focus on one or more of three themes: promoting zero emission vehicle technologies ; enhancing manufacturing competitiveness ; and/or future vehicle innovation (software defined vehicles (SDV) and Electrical/Electronic (E/E) architectures). See the Themes section below for more details of each. The aim of this competition is to support collaborative R&D projects that design, develop and enable manufacture of technologies which target post project commercialisation. Our experience from similar competitions suggests that you could have a 50% chance of success.