That's a great series of questions.
To respond to your query about the economic ask, you'll see in the brief that we've identified $185 million as the ask. To put it in context, that automotive partnership Canada fund I referred to was $145 million over four years, so it's about the same scale and scope. It's a slightly larger amount, because we've indicated not just automobile, but bus, rail, and integrated mobility, as well.
As for the existing projects within our pipeline, we have 54 projects that were proposed this year in three cluster areas: the greater Toronto area, the greater Montreal area, and the greater Vancouver area. We have an additional 20 projects that have recently been proposed, not in written form, in the greater Edmonton and greater Winnipeg areas. Quantitatively, right now, if there was a magical pot of gold that we could access to co-fund those projects at 50% or 30%, those are the number of projects we have where companies have said, in the private sector or in the transit industry, that they're ready to put cash on the table to do the project. Those projects are all valued between $1 million and $5 million, unless it's a large-scale demo project, and then it's $45 million.
The $185-million ask we have come to is a direct empirical calculation of the 54 projects we have, plus an assumed growth rate of 100% over the four years. These are projects that are between one to three years in length. Over four years, we would expect a doubling in the number of projects, if the funding was there and assuming that the rate of the project is between $1 million to $5 million for early-stage technology development and piloting, prototyping, and simulation modelling. There are also several projects that are large-scale demo projects.
What that tells you, to sum it all up, is that if there was a magical pot of money right now, the 54 projects we have amount to a $66-million federal ask. If we assume the 100% growth rate, then it comes to $185 million. Within that we have assumed the pan-Ontario electric bus demo, and that's $45 million, a hydrogen fuel cell integration—