Automotive Transformation Fund
Automotive Transformation Fund Feasibility Study 2 Winners
A £9.4 million investment
The winners from the second Automotive Transformation Fund Feasibility Study Competition FS2 received a share of £9.4 million in public funding. Below, you can find out more about each of the studies.
Batteries
- Advanced Energy Minerals (UK) Ltd – 5N HPA Manufacturing Plant, Coventry, West Midlands
- Cornish Lithium Ltd – Trelavour Hard Rock Lithium Scoping Study, Penryn, Cornwall
- EVC Powertech Ltd – 6-minute EV: an EV battery that can be charged in 6-minutes , Birmingham, West Midlands
- Green Lithium Refining Ltd – Green Lithium, Rosyth Refinery, Rosyth, Dunfermlin
- Ilika Technologies Ltd & Comau – A technical feasibility study of the manufacturing scale up for Ilika’s Solid State Batteries, Romsey, Hampshire
- Ricardo UK Ltd – Feasibility study to quantify the opportunity for niche volume battery pack manufacturing in the UK, including consideration of second life processing, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex
- RML Group Ltd – Feasibility study into the scale-up operations and processes of a UK battery manufacturing facility, Wellingborough, Northants
- Talga Anode UK Ltd – CALIBER: Conductive Additives to reduce Lithium Ion Battery Electrode Resistance, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Fuel Cells
- GKN Autostructures Ltd – H.E.N.R.Y, Telford, Shropshire
- Haydale Composite Solutions Ltd – Graphene Enhanced Composite Hydrogen Tanks for Automotive (REACH-OUT), Loughborough, Leicestershire
- Loop Technology Ltd – HySMART, Dorchester, Dorset
- Ultima Forma Ltd – HYSTOR: Composite Electroformed Hydrogen Tank, Farnham, Surrey
- Xcience Ltd – Hydrogen Storage for Transport: HYTRANSTOR, Frimley, Surrey
Motors & Drives
- Electrified Automation Ltd – Removing barriers for OEMs through Automated Manufacturing (ROAM), Bridgewater, Somerset
- Equipmake Ltd – Electric Drivetrain Scale Up Manufacturing Study (EDSUMS), Snetterton, Norfolk
- Ford Motor Company Ltd – GigaDriveUK: Feasibility of high volume electric drive unit and hybrid transmission manufacture within Ford UK, Basildon, Essex
- Less Common Metals Ltd – New UK Magnet plant, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire
- Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Ltd – PARETA: High Efficiency Parallel Motor for Automotive Application, Cwmbran, Monmouthshire
- Q-Flo Ltd – Enabling EMI Shielding, Doncaster, South Yorkshire
Recycling
- Baruch Enterprises Ltd – Lithium Ion Battery Assembly and Remanufacturing facility (Li-BAR), Edmonton, London
- Entrust EV Technology Ltd – Reprocessing Retired EV Batteries for Secondary Use, Lancaster, Lancashire
- Innvotek Ltd – Second life batteries for future applications (Batt2TheFuture), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire