FOI2026/00024: Innovate UK DRIVE35 Innovation Fund: Collaborate and Demonstrate
Case reference FOI2026/00024
Received 12 January 2026
Published 23 February 2026
Request
Request received: 12 January 2026
For Innovate UK’s 2025 DRIVE35 Innovation Fund: Collaborate, please could you release the following information:
1. The number of applications
2. The number of assessed applications
3. The number of successful applications
4. The success rate
5. The minimum successful score
6. The maximum successful score
7. Maximum score of failed applications
8. Average grant fund value per project
9. Average score of funded projects
10. Average number of partners within consortiums for successful applications.
11. The count of assessed applications by theme:
Theme 1: Promote Zero Emission Vehicle Technologies
Theme 2: Enhance Manufacturing Competitiveness
Theme 3: Future Vehicle Innovation - Software Defined Vehicles (SDV) and Electrical/Electronic (E/E) Architectures).
12. The count of successful applications by technology area within Theme 1 (electrical energy storage, electric machines and associated driveline, power electronics including Vehicle-to-Everything, Internal Combustion Engines (ICE) for on road applications, ICE for off road applications, lightweight materials and manufacturing processes, fuel cell systems and associated balance of plant, hydrogen storage and management systems)
13. The count of successful applications by technology area within Theme 2 (Digital Transformation, manufacturing process decarbonisation, Lean Manufacturing, Supply Chain Development).
14. The count of successful applications by technology area within Theme 3 (Integrated E/E systems, validation and verification technology, embedded Software Development, network communications, Control Systems).
15. The count of assessed applications by research category (industrial research and experimental development).
Following clarification received on 26 January 2026, parts 11 to 14 were withdrawn from this request.
For Innovate UK’s 2025 DRIVE35 Innovation Fund: Demonstrate, please could you release the following information:
1. The number of applications
2. The number of assessed applications
3. The number of successful applications
4. The number of successful applications led by single applicants
5. The number of successful applications led by consortiums
6. The success rate
7. The minimum successful score
8. The maximum successful score
9. Maximum score of failed applications
10. Average grant fund value per project
11. Average score of funded projects
12. The count of assessed applications by theme (Theme 1: Promote Zero Emission Vehicle Technologies, Theme 2: Enhance Manufacturing Competitiveness, Theme 3: Future Vehicle Innovation - Software Defined Vehicles (SDV) and Electrical/Electronic (E/E) Architectures).
13. The count of successful applications by technology area within Theme 1 (electrical energy storage, electric machines and associated driveline, power electronics including Vehicle-to-Everything, Internal Combustion Engines (ICE) for on road applications, ICE for off road applications, lightweight materials and manufacturing processes, fuel cell systems and associated balance of plant, hydrogen storage and management systems).
14. The count of successful applications by technology area within Theme 2 (Digital Transformation, manufacturing process decarbonisation, Lean Manufacturing, Supply Chain Development)
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15. The count of successful applications by technology area within Theme 3 (Integrated E/E systems, validation and verification technology, embedded Software Development, network communications, Control Systems).
16. The count of assessed applications by research category (industrial research and experimental development).
Following clarification received on 26 January 2026, parts 12 to 15 were withdrawn from this request.
Response
Response sent: 23 February 2026
I can confirm that UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) does hold information relevant to your request.
The requested information is provided in the attached document “FOI2026_00024 Annex 1”.
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