Funding to encourage ongoing investment and innovation in the Australian automotive industry

The Automotive Transformation Scheme (ATS) provides cash payments to support eligible investment in research and development, and plant and equipment, and payments for activities related to the production of motor vehicles, engines and engine components.

It offers financial assistance covering a proportion of eligible R&D and capital investment to encourage investment and innovation in the Australian automotive industry.

Motor vehicle producers: You must either produce at least 30,000 motor vehicles annually in Australia, or produce at least 30,000 engines annually in Australia.

Automotive component producers: You must produce at least one kind of automotive component in Australia for use as original equipment in at least 30,000 motor vehicles or engines annually, and the production value for that component must be at least $500,000 in the previous 12 months.

Or: You must produce automotive components in Australia for use as original equipment with a production value of at least $500,000 annually, and the production value must be at least 50% of the value of all automotive components produced by you in that period.

Automotive machine tool and automotive tooling producers: You must produce automotive machine tools or automotive tooling in Australia with a production value of at least $500,000 annually, and at least 50% of that production value must be for tools and tooling used to produce original equipment.

Automotive Service Providers: You must provide automotive services in Australia with a production value of at least $500,000 a year, and at least 50% of that production value was for services related to production of motor vehicles or original equipment.

Applications for registration may also be assessed on forward sales and production values. If you do not meet the eligibility criteria you may seek Ministerial permission to apply for registration in the national interest (see Customer Guideline 4).