In Phase 1 TUMCREATE broke new ground in the field of electric vehicle research and development. Over 120 scientists, researchers and engineers and more than 12 Chair Professors conducted pioneering research in ten different fields. These included new battery materials and storage, innovative EV designs, low-energy air-conditioning, transportation system optimisation, and energy storage.

30 Invention Disclosures were made during Phase 1 and the team won the eCarTec Award for Innovation, Germany and the Land Transport Excellence Award, Singapore.

The first half of Phase 1 involved enormous efforts in simultaneously setting up the infrastructure that allowed us to build the electric taxi, named EVA, and launching it at the Tokyo Motor Show in November 2013. The second half of TUMCREATE’s Phase 1 was not only a time of consolidation and harvesting, but even more a time of implementation and testing of new goals that gradually influenced the activities of Phase 2.

The many excellent results in both research and their ‘engineered’ realization have appeared in more than 370 ISI listed publications and the high international visibility of TUMCREATE is documented by more than 6000 citations.