A Waterloo Engineering Team won the 2015 Electric Mobility Canada Student Competition, an event co-sponsored by AddÉnergie and Electric Mobility Canada. The award came with a $4,500 charging station for Waterloo.
At the competition held in Halifax teams were presented with an electric vehicle (EV) power train configuration and battery charging issue to resolve. Each team prepared a presentation of its issue, a solution and a plan for adoption. The Waterloo team proposed a Metal/Air – LiIon Hybrid vehicle as the technical solution:
Waterloo’s eight-member team was made up of chemical engineering and mechanical engineering undergraduates who are members of the University of Waterloo Alternative Fuels Team (UWAFT). Team advisors were Michael Fowler, a chemical engineering professor, and Caixia (Megan) Wang, a chemical engineering master's candidate.