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Winners Announcement | EZ-EV Design Challenge

JoRatcliffe

It is time to announce our EZ-EV winners! Red carTrophy

Let’s do a quick recap of the challenge requirements and remind ourselves of the prizes, then get straight into the winners.

The Challenge

For a chance at winning one of the prizes, participants in the challenge had to create a prototype smart electric vehicle or smart system for a next-generation of vehicles, showcasing the features of the kit's components in the most imaginative way possible.

Judging criteria included originality, innovation, technical merit, and sharing the build process with at least five forum posts and a final project write-up.

 

The Prizes

Prize Prize Category

First Place Prize

               

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First Place wins 


Smart Electric Scooter ( Approx. Value £279 GBP) 

Smart LED Bike Helmet ( Approx. Value £160 GBP)

Bionic Dog Robot ( Approx. Value £360 GBP)

Second Place Prize


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Second Place wins   

Bionic Dog Robot

(Approx. Value £360 GBP)

Third Place Prize

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Third Place wins 

6x4 Off-Road UGV

(Approx. Value £150 GBP)

Finisher Prize

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For anyone who completes their 5 forum posts and 1 project blog demonstrating their project.

400A AC/DC Clamp Meter, 30mm Jaw

(Approx. Value £49.23)

*Don't worry if a prize is out of stock in your region or does not have the right plug for you. We can ship from global stocks, include a plug adaptor, or find a local equivalent of a prize.
**Grand Prize and Runner Up winners will also earn the finisher prize.

 

The Winners!

1st Place Winner

EVA Guardian

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   designed a prototype battery insight, safety and emergency response system for electric vehicles.

 

2nd Place Winner

DockBot

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   created a vision-guided robot for autonomous EV charging which can go to a charger, pick up a charging cable, then move over to a car and plug it in.

 

3rd Place Winner

Project GEPARD

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   designed a scaled-down autonomous UGV (Unmanned Ground Vehicle) that can function as a testbed for analytics, testing, and simulations.

 

Finisher Prize

In no particular order

 

Hall-w-EV

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   and   built their own autonomous vehicle that can either be driven via remote control or drive itself down their hallway!

 

SmartAssist EV

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   created a compact smart, compact robot car for testing autonomous navigation, obstacle detection, and smart mobility algorithms for use in healthcare or elderly care settings.

 

Vape Cell EV

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  ’s project used salvaged lithium cells from disposable vapes to test whether a variety of cells with unknown history could be put together in a smart battery to power an EV or EV system.

 

Congratulations to all our EZ-EV’ers! These were all fantastic projects and everyone deserves lots of recognition for all their hard work.

   will be coordinating the prizes for this challenge and will be in touch with updates or in case there are any questions.

I hope this makes for a good start to the week for everyone and keep a lookout because our next design challenge will be here very soon…