Student team wins electric vehicle competition

A UVic team has won the Electric Mobility Canada (EMC) annual competition that challenges combined teams of engineering and business students to come up with a plan to improve electric vehicle infrastructure and promote the adoption of electric vehicles in Canada. Ten teams from across Canada had one week to assess an issue and conduct research, with 5 teams chosen to make a 10-minute presentation at the EMC Conference in Vancouver. This year’s challenge was to write a five-year technical and business plan to position Canada as a leading nation in per capita sales of electric vehicles.

Contest sponsors EMC and AddENERGIE will combine their awards to purchase and  install a high-quality vehicle charger on the UVic campus.

This is the second year in a row the UVic team has won the EMC competition. The winning team includes Ted Alley, Martin Guinto, Mojtaba Lajevardi, Pouya Amid, Valery Heckel, Nima Tehrani, Adam Gray and Sahand Behboodi. Their faculty advisor is Dr. Zuomin Dong. The team also received advice from mechanical engineer Dr. Curran Crawford and psychology PhD srudent Christine Kormos.