Technology Strategy Board

The Technology Strategy Board is a business-led executive non-departmental public body, established by the government. Its role is to promote and support research into and development and exploitation of, technology and innovation for the benefit of UK business, in order to increase economic growth and improve quality of life. It is sponsored by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).  For more information about the Technology Strategy Board please visit www.innovateuk.org.

The Technology Strategy Board is funding the CABLED consortium through the Ultra Low Carbon Vehicle Demonstrator Competition

£25 million has been allocated to eight highly innovative, industry-led collaborative research projects in the field of ultra low carbon vehicle development and demonstration. The competition focused on encouraging the development of industry-led consortia that can deliver in bringing significant numbers of vehicles onto roads quickly. The competition winners will deliver over 340 new innovative cars on the road in eight locations around the UK in the next six to eighteen months.

Demonstrator programmes will take place in Glasgow, the North East, the West Midlands, Oxford, three projects in London (central London, West London, Westminster) and countrywide.