【Press Release】
一般社団法人 電気自動車普及協会

Association for the Promotion of Electric Vehicles
To whom it may concern,【Report】Final Screening and Award Ceremony of EV Mobility Design Contestfor International Students 2017/ APEV Symposium
2017/11/8
Association for the Promotion of Electric Vehicles (APEV)
Nobuhiro Tajima, Chief Commissioner
Association for the Promotion of Electric Vehicles (APEV) holds “EV Mobility Design Contest for InternationalStudents 2017” so as to support student’s development and popularize electric vehicles. This year 2017, was the3rd in its series. The final screening and award ceremony was held as part of “Tokyo Motor Show Symposium
2017”.
Details of the event are reported as below...
Time & Date：10:00-16:00 November 4th, 2017（Sat）
Venue：Conference Rooms 605-608,Tokyo Big Sight Conference Tower 6F〇Morning session：10:00-13:00“Final Screening, Award Ceremony and display of final works of EV Mobility Design Contest 2017”
Preceded with the explanation of APEV and the contest by Chief Commissioner Mr.Tajima, 10 international
teams which have passed the 2nd screening gave a presentation.
The final judge was made immediately after, and the prizes were given as follows.
The Head of Screening Committee Mr. Nakamura and members of screening committee Mr. Okuyama and Mr.
Nagaya stated how the awards were decided and encouraged the students for their achievements.
This is the first time that a team from abroad had won the Grand Prix. Furthermore, one team being given double
awards had been unprecedented until this year.
Also, a session in which students discussed about their experiences from SNS interaction was held.
*The video of this AM program will be shared soon.
＜Awards＞Awards/Country/School/Team Grand Prix, with 200 thousand yen as a supplementary prize: China/ Guangzhou Academy of FineArts/Triple Six
 METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) Minister Award, with 100 thousand yen as a supplementaryprize: Japan/Chiba Institute of Technology/SAL
 MLIT (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport) Minister Award, with 100 thousand yen as asupplementary prize: Japan/Tokyo Metropolitan University/N DENKI
Sponsorship Awards
 NTN Award: Japan/Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology/ebi-P
 Car Design Academy Award: India/National Institute of Design/Team EV India
 Bosch Award: Japan/Tokyo Metropolitan University/N DENKI
 Mitsubishi Chemical Award: Japan/Nagoya City University/GoL1

〇Afternoon session：14:15-16:00
1) Greeting: Hiroshi Yokokawa（President of Japan Association of Athletics Federations, APEV Chairman）
2) “Towards a Zero Emission Island”: Yuriko Koike (Governor of Tokyo)
She made a presentation on Tokyo’s policies to expand electric vehicles (especially demonstration tests
conducted in island areas) while bringing in her own experiences as well.
3) APEV Symposium: “Near future prospects (-2050): The society created by EV and the role of design”
Members of the screening committee, Mr. Nakamura, Mr. Okuyama, Mr. Nagaya took the role as the panelistand Mr. Yamashita (APEV Commissioner & CEO, INTERROBANG DESIGN INC.) was in charge as a moderator
to discuss on "industry", "life", "car design" and "design education".
The active exchange of opinions led to the conclusion that “design’s application becomes all the more broadand significant in the era of EV and autopilot".

【Photos of Morning session】

All members

Grand Prix/Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts/Triple Six

Discussed about SNS interaction

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【Photos of Morning session】Continued

METI/Chiba Institute of Technology/SAL

MLIT/Tokyo Metropolitan University/N DENKI

CDA/National Institute of Design/TeamEV India

Mr.Tajima

Bosch/Tokyo Metropolitan University /N DENKI

Mr. Nakamura

Mr. Okuyama

NTN/Advanced Institute of IndustrialTechnology /ebi

Mitsubishi Chemical/ Nagoya City University/GoLMr. Nagaya【Photos of afternoon session】

Mr.Yokokawa

Ms. Koike

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【Outline of the Contest】+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 Host: The Association for the Promotion of Electric Vehicles (APEV) Supporters: ( 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 JapanTokyo Metropolitan Government
 Sponsors:◆Companies confirmed for the first round
Benesse Holdings, Inc.
Honda R&D Co., Ltd.
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.

NTN Corporation◆Companies confirmed for the second round
Bosch Corporation
Car Design Academy
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation

IHI Transport Machinery Co., Ltd.

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.

Marubeni Information Systems Co., Ltd.

Tools International Corporation

 Screening Committee◆Head： Shiro Nakamura（Design consultant & CEO,SHIRO NAKAMURA DESIGN ASSOCIATES.）◆Members：・Tadao Ando (Architect & Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo)
・Akihiro Nagaya (Executive Officer, Chief General Manager, Design Center, Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.)・Ken Okuyama (Industrial Designer & CEO, Ken Okuyama Design)
・Patrick le Quément (Industrial designer & Ex-Senior Vice President of Corporate design, Renault)
・Zhang, Fan (Vice President, Head of Design Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd.)・Shigeaki Tanaka (Deputy Director-General, Manufacturing Industries Bureau Ministry of Economy,
Trade and Industry)・Masayuki Shima (Senior Deputy Director-General, Road Transport Bureau

Ministry of Land,Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)
・Nobuhiro Tajima (Chief Commissioner, Association for the Promotion of Electric Vehicles) Executive committee
・Chairman:Toshio:Yamashita(Commissioner,APEV & CEO, INTERROBANG DESIGN INC.)
・Vice chairman: Hitoshi Arima(Commissioner,APEV & President, Arima Management Design, Ltd.) .
 Schedule
4th November 2017: Final screening and award ceremony in Tokyo Motor Show Symposium 2017
February to March 2018: Final report meeting (The schedule is subject to change) CONTACTGen Yasujima, EV Design Contest Secretary-General
Association for the Promotion of Electric Vehicles (APEV)TEL：+81-50-3736-8325 FAX：+81-50-3153-2686
E-mail:contest@apev.jp Website: http://www.apev.jp/contest/en/

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