Startup India Challenge - EVangelise '22 - Electric Vehicle Innovation Challenge
EVangelise emerged as India's largest EV innovation challenge after a phenomenal response to its inaugural edition. EVangelise, now in its second year, has been positioned as a 'Made for Industry' challenge built around the industry's real problem statements.
The overarching theme of EVangelise '22 is to provide the Indian EV industry with advanced technology solutions created by start-ups that are designed, developed, and patented in India. We believe that breakthrough innovation in 2W and 3W EVs must occur at the sub-component level, and that this can provide Indian manufacturers with a long-term competitive advantage by ensuring that these sub-components are used in EVs manufactured around the world. These will be some of the world's lowest cost, most cutting-edge components, meeting Indian pricing requirements as well as global quality and performance standards. This opens up a plethora of opportunities and the possibility of being a part of an exciting revolution for innovators as well.
DETAILED ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA under Tech Development Innovation Category:
- Team of 1-5
- Concept and Designs are ready but not yet prototyped
- Representatives of academic, research and corporate can apply
- Must be willing to work on the given problem statements
- Must spend at least 50% of their time at the iCreate campus during the ‘development’ period
Manufacturing Partnership Innovation Category:
- Working of the prototype can be demostrated through videos and photos
- Demonstrable defensibility (can be patented) or improvement over existing technologies
- Basic competition analysis done
- Independence of supply chain problems (import dependence) to some degree
- Validated industry or market requirement
PROBLEM STATEMENT for Electric Vehicle Innovation Challenge
Vehicle Traction - Motor Controller and Motor
- This theme relates to various technological products or solutions relating to the enhancement of vehicle traction drives including motor and motor controllers. The technology has to be novel with a significant improvement over the existing market-ready technologies. These may include but are not limited to -
- Usage of Generic chips by reducing supply chain problems
- Modular power electronics and embedded systems to enable variable power delivery through the same embedded hardware
- Enhancement of robustness/reliability through various interventions
- Alternate magnets - Enhancing commonly available magnet tech
- Motor stamping - Innovation in electrical steel stampings
- FPGA-based EV subcomponents (replacing generic processors/controllers/AFEs)
- E Vehicle Control Units - To enhance overall electric vehicle efficiency
- Detailed simulations (thermal, electrical, electromagnetic, mechanical stress, etc.) of various subcomponents - motor, controller, BMS, chassis, frame, etc.
- Other alternate technologies to reduce costs and supply chain problems
Vehicle Energy Storage - Prevention of battery fire
- This theme relates to various technological products or solutions relating to the prevention of battery fires. Any type of electronic, electrical, chemical, etc. type of intervention which can be retrofitted or have to be embedded in the battery itself. These may include but are not limited to -
- Rating (SOH/Quality) of cells - Predicting and monitoring the state of health (SOH) or quality of cells
- Detection/Prevention of dendrites (Software-based AI/ML)- Early detection/prediction of dendrite formation by ML
- Battery Management System (BMS) - Novel architectures to reduce costs
- Battery Management System (BMS) - Alternate technologies to AFE
- Hybrid Energy Storage System (HESS) - Supercapacitor + Battery
- Cooling solutions - Innovative active/passive cooling solutions for battery pack
- HV Battery Disconnect & Fire-off System - STMicroelectronics
- Other alternate technologies to reduce costs and supply chain problems
Vehicle Infrastructure - Communications and Charging
- This theme relates to various technological products or solutions relating to the enhancement of existing overall vehicle infrastructure which includes safety, communication and charging infrastructure. These may include but are not limited to -
- AC or DC chargers with some Innovative Component
- Hardware or BMS enablement for Swapping solutions (hot + cool)
- Autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles
- Driver assistive technology
- Accident Detection and prevention
- Vehicle to Vehicle or Vehicle to cloud communication
- Other alternate technologies to reduce costs and supply chain problems
Incentives
Fiscal Incentives - A total of Rs 1.12 Cr Cash prizes will be awarded in each innovation theme (problem statements) in the 'Tech Development' Innovation Category:
- Winner - Rs 10 lakh
- First Runner-up - Rs 7.5 lakh
- Second Runner-up - Rs 5 lakh
- Five consolation prizes - Rs 3 lakh
Non-Fiscal Incentives
The top 3 winners in the 'Manufacturing Partnership' Innovation Category will get the Strategic manufacturing partnerships with EV industry players so that their innovations get the opportunity and support to be commercialised at scale.
Procedure Post Submission
Tech Development Innovation Category:
- Shortlisted applications will come to iCreate Campus for further process. There will be a 3-months program where they rapidly work towards the development of a basic functional Proof of Concept. They will also have access to iCreate technology mentorship, prototyping and testing infrastructure and co-working spaces.
Manufacturing Partnership Innovation Category:
- Shortlisted applicants will be invited to iCreate Campus with their prototypes/PoCs for further process/acceleration.
- iCreate solely reserves rights to change/update the 'Innovation Theme' in which the applicant submitted the application and define the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of the application/startup.
Contact the Host
- ORGANISATION NAME - iCreate - International Centre for Technology and Entrepreneurship
- PERSON IN CHARGE - Ms Payal Patel
- DESIGNATION - Head - Marketing and Collaboration
- SUPPORT EMAIL ID - evangelise@icreate.org.in