Student team InMotion won the KIVI Vehicle Technology Best Student Team Award 2023 on 16 April. The award ceremony took place during the Talent Fair, the kick-off of Automotive Week 2023, at Automotive Campus in Helmond.
Smart solutions for societal challenges
The five finalists Forze Hydrogen, Electric Racing Delft, Green Team Twente, InMotion, Solar Team Eindhoven and Team Polar showed that they add knowledge and expertise to automotive research and industry. The nominated student teams presented themselves in front of a jury that eventually crowned team InMotion the winner.
The technology around fast charging is an important step in accelerating the development towards greater acceptance of electric charging. That's what ultimately won team InMotion.
"We are really proud to have received the KIVI Best Student Team Award 2023 and to be able to move forward together. We would like to support all other student teams in their innovations. This summer, we will deliver our Next Generation Battery Pack, which will allow us to reduce our 12-minute charging time to just a few minutes. This way, we are getting closer to Electric Refueling: charging an electric car as fast as a petrol-powered car," said Julia Niemeijer, InMotion team manager.
The Award consists of a freely spendable sum of money, 3000 and 1000 euros respectively for the winner InMotion and other teams. In addition, the winner, together with the Automotive Innovation Award 2023 winner, will receive speaking time at the RAI Automotive Industry NL conference in the autumn.
Team InMotion also received congratulations from Minister Harbers and they once again told him about their wonderful technological developments. They also attended the Automotive Week 2023 VIP dinner at Helmond Castle as guest of honour.
After the presentation, jury member Saskia Lavoo of ACE Mobility summed it up nicely: "It is special to see how these mostly technical engineering teams come up with smart innovative solutions to our societal challenges". Martijn Stamm, jury chairman, added: "All the teams here are doing great work, make sure we hear a lot from you in the future."
KIVI VT Best Student Team Award 2023
KIVI's Vehicle Engineering Department created this Best Student Team Award to give visibility to the knowledge and innovation within student teams. Besides generating attention, the award provides the teams with freely spendable money. This year, the jury consisted of: Albie van Buel (Director RAI Automotive Industry NL), Saskia Lavoo (Director ACE Mobility) and Martijn Stamm (Market Director Traffic & Transport TNO).
