The Commercialising Connected and Automated Mobility competition is providing grants to help roll out commercial use self-driving vehicles across the UK from 2025, delivering convenience for consumers and making journeys safer, greener and more reliable.

The competition will help bring together companies and investors so that sustainable business models be rolled out nationally and exported globally.

Types of self-driving vehicles that could be deployed include delivery vans, passenger buses, shuttles, and pods, as well as vehicles that move people and luggage at airports and containers at shipping ports.

Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will work with the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) to invest up to £41.5 million in innovation projects across two competition strands, which will both close to applications at 11:00 on 20 July 2022.

See: Competition overview – Commercialising Connected and Automated Mobility: Mass transit – Innovation Funding Service (apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk)