This competition is to encourage communication and provide exposure for peers in the thriving transportation electrification arena, the TEC education committee will hold an Electric Vehicle Design Competition!
Prizes will be awarded:
- $1000 for Best Overall
- $500 for the Most Innovative
- $300 for the Most Implementable
It’s a chance for you to group up and start your first step to realize your idea in mind!
- Team formed by at least 3 participants, with at least 1 IEEE TEC member.
- Participants should be students or post-doctoral fellow.
- Aims: Examine their design concept, efficiency, innovation and impact.
- Content: Light vehicle, Racing car, Formula-E, Electric golf-car, E-Bike, E-scooter, E-truck,
- E-vessel, E-drone, E-aircraft, Autonomous vehicles and Unmanned vehicles.
Important dates
- Deadline for submission: Aug.1, 2025
- Announcement of results: Sep. 1, 2025
Guidelines for the submission:
- The video must first start with the title, name of the team members and institutes.
- The presentation must be in English
- Submission of 4 pages must be in English
Intellectual Property and Copyright
- In order to be eligible, the applicant should sign a form to express the consent that the video may be published by IEEE TEC and assure that the video does not contain otherwise copyrighted or confidential material.
- Use of copyrighted materials must be avoided. Proper citations/references to the materials should be included, including your own publications. It is the applicant’s responsibility to resolve any copyright issues before submission
Previous Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2024 winners
- 1st Prize: Building a Large-Scale Intrinsically-Safe Energy Storage System by Using Retired EV Batteries, Congjia Zhang, Tsinghua University. China
- 2nd Prize: A Simplified DAB Converter Suitable for Low Voltage and Large Current Applications, Qirui Yang, The Southwest Jiaotong University, China
- 3rd Prize: High Frequency Inverter Design for Wireless Power Transfer System, Xiangrong Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Congratulations to the 2022 winners
- 1st Prize: A Distributed Architecture and Virtual Synchronous Machine Control of Onboard Charger for the Electric Vehicle, Liu Yonghui, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
- 2nd Prize: A Novel Coupler with Triple D Coil Increasing Lateral Misalignment Tolerance for EV-WPT System, Zhipeng Deng, Chongqing University, China
- 3rd Prize: A Matrix Converter Based Wireless Power Transfer System for High-Speed Train, Yang Xu, Southeast University, China