Scale-up
Get scale-up ready with Feasibility Studies
Validate your business case to enable rapid scale-up of your innovative technology.
About this competition
The route to scaling-up production requires distinct phases of technology and manufacturing development, evaluation is one.
The Feasibility Studies competition provides you with a unique opportunity to produce a decision-ready business case, evaluate your product performance, and gain commercial validation for future investment.
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. It could even be focused on working with customers to evaluate product performance. 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:
- Application deadline 3 September 2025
- Applicants informed 12 September 2025
- Project start from 1 November 2025
Eligibility
To be eligible you must:
- Have a grant-funding request of between £150,000 to £750,000 with a maximum of 50% match-funded for a large organisation, or 60% for an SME.
- Start by 1st December 2025 and last no longer than 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
- Electric machines and associated driveline
- Power electronics
- Internal combustion engine (ICE) for off-road applications
- Lightweighting
- Fuel-cell systems
- Hydrogen storage and management systems
- Zero-emission vehicle assembly
- Circularity and Design for Disassembly
- Deployment of technologies to enable productivity
For a more detailed scope outline, visit the IFS website.
Success stories
Ionic Technologies: Funding ecosystem grows businesses
Ionic Technologies has developed new techniques to recycle permanent magnets using a ‘revolutionary’ process for the separation and recovery of rare earth elements from mining ore concentrates and waste magnets.
Altilium Clean Technology: Converting black mass to battery gold
Using hydrometallurgical extraction, Altilium is able to recover over 95% of the critical metals found in black mass to produce battery-ready cathode active material (CAM).
YASA Opens UK’s First Axial-Flux Motor Super-Factory
The investment boosts YASA’s manufacturing capacity, setting new benchmarks in e-motor technology and quality, and enabling production of YASA's Axial flux electric motors to scale beyond 25,000 units per year.
How to apply
Applications for Feasibility Studies are now open. If you’ve got an exciting project that fulfils the eligibility criteria outlined above, you can apply on the Innovation Funding Service website by clicking the button below.
To support you with the application process, we’ve put together an applicant briefing webinar with our partners at the Department for Business and Trade and Innovate UK. You can watch the recording here or download our info pack.
All grant-funding is subject to Ministerial and His Majesty’s Treasury approval and will be awarded in accordance with the Minimal Financial Assistance provision outlined in the Subsidy Control Act 2022.