【Press Release】
30th Sept. 2019

Announcement of the second screening results for“EV Mobility Design Contest for International Students 2019”Nobuhiro Tajima, President
Association for the Promotion of Electric Vehicles(Japan)
To whom it may concern,
Association for the Promotion of Electric Vehicles (APEV) is now holding “EV Mobility
Design Contest for International Students 2019”.
Today we are pleased to announce the second screening results.
The selection was extremely difficult because all the teams submitted excellent works.
The selected teams are as below.
◎Total:10schools / 10 teams
From Japan: 6 schools / 6 teams
From overseas: 4 countries,4 schools / 4 teams(Canada,India,Korea,Tunisia)★Please refer to the next page for the details.
Teams which passed the second screening will be endowed with the right to participate
in Workshop 2 on 14th Sept. in Tokyo.
What is the“EV Mobility Design Contest”?
Since 2013, APEV has organized “EV Super Micro Mobility Design Contest forInternational Students“ in conjunction with the Tokyo Motor Show. From 2017 thetarget is not restricted to the super micro mobility but expanded to electric vehicles ingeneral.
Furthermore, APEV would like to show the concept and scheme of the mobility society
in the future and new approaches to the environment issues, with the creativity andplanning ability for the designs.
★Please refer special web site in detail.<http://www.apev.jp/contest/en/>

Schedule (plan) August 30th 2019: Announcement of the second screening results September 14th 2019: Workshop 2
 October 27th 2019: Final screening and award ceremony in Tokyo Motor Show
Symposium<http://www.apev.jp/en/news/2019/08/apev-participates-in-tokyo-motor-show-symposium.html>

 February to March 2020: Final report meeting(The schedule is subject to change.)1Teams which passed the second screening (EV Design contest 2019）
Name of Schools#Country

Name of Teams

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Japan 首都大学東京 産業技術大学院大学

Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology

2

Tunisia Car Design Academy

Car Design Academy

Jimaxon3

Japan 千葉工業大学

Chiba Institute of Technology

HyKs

4

Japan HAL大阪

HAL Osaka College of Technology & Design

T2D

5Japan HAL東京

HAL Tokyo College of Technology & Design

APEX

6

Korea 国立仁川大学 (国立インチョン大学)

Incheon National University

ID-WORKS

7IndiaNational Institute of Design

Team ONE

8

Japan 首都大学東京Tokyo Metropolitan UniversityWAVE

9Japan 東京工科大学

Tokyo University of Technology

KurageNational Institute of Design

10 Canada University of WaterlooUniversity of Waterloo

AIIT TOKYO

Tomoki Kaneko

2Design contest Overview
Title“EV Mobility Design Contest for International Students 2019”

Objectives To foster students who will lead the next generation, through designing electricvehicles with a broad range of possibilities.
Organizations
Host: Association for the Promotion of Electric Vehicles (APEV)
Supporters: (Applied, in alphabetical order)
Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of TokyoJapan Automobile Manufacturers Association, Inc. (JAMA)
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan
Ministry of the Environment of Japan
Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Inc. （JSAE）
TOKYO METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT
Sponsors: (First round)
Benesse Holdings, Inc. Car Design Academy Marubeni Information Systems Co., Ltd.
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. NTN Corporation Tools International Corporation
Sponsors: (Second round)
CCC Marketing Co.,Ltd.
Sponsors companies for second round are wanted
EV Design Contest Committee
Chairperson：Toshio Yamashita （APEV Commissioner & CEO of INTERROBANG DESIGN
INC.& Visiting Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University）
Vice-Chairperson: Hitoshi Arima (APEV Commissioner & President of Arima Management
Design, Ltd. & Chairman of Yokohama Smart Community)
Secretariat: Association for the Promotion of Electric Vehicles (APEV)
Screening Committee
Head: Shiro Nakamura （ CEO, SHIRO NAKAMURA DESIGN ASSOCIATES）
Members:
Akihiro Nagaya (Executive Officer, Chief General Manager, Design Center, Yamaha
Motor Co., Ltd.)Ken Okuyama (Industrial Designer & CEO, Ken Okuyama Design)
Tadao Ando (Architect & Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo)
Zhang, Fan (Vice President, Head of Design Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd.)
Nobuhiro Tajima (Chief Commissioner, APEV)★Contact
Gen Yasujima EV Design Contest Secretary-General
Association for the Promotion of Electric Vehicles (APEV)
Address: FUKUTAKE HALL THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033 JAPAN
Tel: +81-50-3375-4937 FAX: +81-50-3153-2686
E-mail ：contest@apev.jp Web site: http://www.apev.jp/contest/en/

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