Low Emission Transport Fund

Round 9: Holiday Journey's Public Charging Infrastructure

Round 8: Demonstration of Marine

Round 7: Demonstration of Vehicles, Technology & Off-road

Round 6: Adoption of Public Charging Infrastructure

Round 5: Adoption of Public Charging Infrastructure

Round 4: Adoption of Public Charging Infrastructure

Round 3: Demonstration of Vehicles and Technology

Round 2: Adoption of Public Charging Infrastructure

Round 1: Demonstration of Vehicles and Technology

The fund will focus on activities in the transport sector that move people and/or goods on roads, off-road, and in the marine and aviation sectors to:

• demonstrate innovative solutions that will enable future adoption and deployment
• reduce energy related emissions in the transport sector
• address market and organisational barriers through co-investment and diffusion of new knowledge and learnings, and
• share knowledge and learnings to stimulate wider replication of successful projects and solutions in the transport sector.

Wider transport systems and activities (such as building roads, urban design, mode shift policy) are excluded.

To best deliver the outcomes of the LETF, the Fund is divided into a portfolio of investment activities which will be released to the market as individual funding rounds for co-funding in each area within the scope of the fund. An announcement will be made in advance of each new activity.

Applications will be sought that deliver on the fund's key outcomes:

• Enablement of future emission reductions.
• Mitigation of perceived or actual risk for first or early adopters.
• The opportunity for education and knowledge to be brought to the market.
• The establishment of a mature and commercially viable market for a particular transport-related technology.
• Businesses and public organisations made aware of the opportunities afforded by low emission options.

All investment activity will reflect a specific investment focus, and will be guided by these investment principles:

1. Enable future emission reductions: projects should demonstrate an indirect or direct contribution to the objective of transport sector decarbonisation.
2. Demonstrate innovative and replicable low emission projects: projects should focus on decarbonising high impact areas through supporting early adopters that demonstrate replication potential and de-risk new emerging innovations.
3. Diffuse knowledge and learnings: projects will create knowledge and learnings for Government and industry decision makers, with the knowledge adopted by businesses and individuals to crowd in private investment and shift consumer behaviour.
4. Encourage sector transformation:  improvement of business, community and/or government capability to develop commercially competitive and innovative responses to barriers and opportunities leading to broader market development.
5. Leverage co-funding: the number of projects will be maximised by leveraging co-funding opportunities, and provide a link with other government funds.
6. Value for money: projects will demonstrate value for money by seeking the best possible public benefits, co-benefits and outcomes with overall benefits exceeding the overall costs.

Projects focusing on the following activities are outside the scope of the fund:

• waste minimisation
• projects that duplicate or are already covered by existing funds, policy, regulation or market settings initiatives (e.g. Council buses)
• non-transport related projects (i.e. the primary purpose is not an activity that moves people or goods in the transport sector)
• energy production and electricity generation such as wind or solar (e.g. solar panels) for electricity generation or electrolysis for hydrogen
• liquid and gas fuel storage and distribution infrastructure such as biofuel storage or gas or liquid fuel pipelines;
• reducing agricultural emissions or embodied carbon
• displacing one fossil fuel for another (e.g. coal to natural gas)
• research & development, and the implementation of technologies or infrastructure that are not commercially available
• pure desktop research, academic research and pre-commercial studies
• any activities that would represent an ongoing financial liability for EECA
• international travel
• conventional and plug-in hybrid light vehicles, such as cars, utes and vans
• light vehicle conversions, for example ICE (combustion engine, such as diesel or petrol utes, vans or cars) to EV are excluded. Heavy vehicle conversions may be eligible, refer to additional qualifications above
• mobile plant including bulldozers, quad bikes, mobile cranes, forklifts and tractors
• mobile equipment including construction equipment, farming equipment and motorcycles
• unmanned aerial vehicles (for example drones)
• projects that are purely focused on marketing, promotion, education and information provision
• marketing activity beyond the initial launch of the Project as agreed in the contract with EECA
• 'business as usual' costs of an organisation such as the costs associated with existing staff.

If you have any queries about whether your project falls within the scope of the fund, get in touch with us to discuss.

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The scope is constantly being reviewed and we would be interested to see if any project can be added to a future round of the fund.