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Tuesday, August 09, 2011 · 275 words · 1781 characters

“Make your contribution to shaping the future” – ELVA project draws design contest

The development of electric vehicles implies a lot of challenges. Not only technical questions have to be addressed. Finding the appropriate design, setting the right impulses and shaping the character, are central tasks for vehicle designers. A European design contest is now addressing these tasks.

What could future electric vehicles look like? How can urban mobility be changed? Are there new ways to design a car? These are questions the European project ELVA is currently investigating. The goal is exploiting new freedoms in design and realising effective lightweight measures. In addition to the developments within the project, the partners are now asking designers and other interested parties to share their ideas and to take the chance to shaping the future of mobility.

The first phase of the design contest is open from now on until mid-September 2011. Promising ideas will be invited to enter the second phase which will last until the end of the year. In total, a price money of 10,000 euro is drawn.

ELVA is a European grouping consisting of seven partners who will develop architectures for electric vehicles particularly designed for electric drive in the next two years. The project is coordinated by ika and fka Forschungsgesellschaft Kraftfahrwesen mbH Aachen for RWTH Aachen University. Furthermore, Continental, Fiat, Renault, and Volkswagen participate in the project as industrial partners. The consortium is supplemented by the Swedish Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre SAFER as well as IDIADA Automotive Technology from Spain. It receives funding within the 7th Research Framework Programme of the European Commission.