Advanced Route to Market Demonstrator 4 (ARMD4)
Design it, demonstrate it, deliver it
We’re looking for business-led, late-stage R&D projects that demonstrate advanced propulsion technologies.
- The output of these projects must be in the form of a physical vehicle, subsystem, process or digital demonstrator.
- Applicants should illustrate how their project has the potential to accelerate technology development and describe how the end-product will be brought to market.
- The project’s total grant funding request must be between £500,000 and £1.5 million and must be a minimum of 50% match-funded.
- Projects need to be completed within a 12-month timescale, starting no later than 1 October 2025, with the opportunity to be operated or displayed at the Cenex Expo event in 2026.
This competition aims to develop a product or process demonstrator, to show increased capability, and commercial exploitation opportunity, as a result of the project. The project will utilise future zero-emission powertrain technology to accelerate the UK’s transition to net zero.
The primary application for technologies developed through this competition should be for the automotive sector, however, potential applications in other sectors can also be highlighted.
Vehicle applications in scope include; on and off-road, agricultural, and heavy-duty/mining.
Proposals must work towards the delivery of zero-emission, on-vehicle technologies for on or off-road vehicles, in one or more of the following areas:
- energy storage, batteries*
- fuel cell systems*
- electric machines*
- power electronics*
- internal combustion engines (ICE) for on-road applications: we will only fund project proposals which aim to achieve zero-harmful tailpipe emissions utilising non-fossil fuels
- lightweight materials, manufacturing, design methods and processes
- on-vehicle hydrogen storage and management systems
- design for circular economy and sustainability, including the disassembly, recovery, and reuse of materials used in the project technologies
- digitalisation of design for manufacture and recycling, development of zero- emissions vehicle innovation, manufacture of vehicle systems and sub-systems, data analytics, redesign, test, validation, and verification
*and their components, control and integration systems
Key dates
Stage 1
Competition opens: 27 January 2025
Applicant Q&A session: 11 February 2025, 11:00 GMT (join here)
Application deadline: 2 April 2025, 11:00 BST
Project start date (latest): 1 October 2025
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