EVOLOCITY is about fast forwarding that future. It’s about stimulating innovation and growing awareness of the advantages of electric transport in a sector which may be the global growth sector of the 21st Century.
High school teams are equipped with an electric bike componentry kit. During the course of the year they design & build their own electric vehicles. At the end of the year they bring their vehicles to a motorsport park for some fun competitions. The end of year event also features demonstrations and test drives of electric bikes, go karts, motor bikes and cars, educating the public as to what is available and dispelling myths around the performance capabilities of EVs.
2020 has been a “different” year, and while we were blessed to have been able to hold all our regional finals as anticipated, we had to cancel our national finals in Hamilton. Instead we kept a national leaderboard of results by which to select our overall winning teams! We are announcing this on Monday 7 December at 7.30pm on Facebook LIVE and you can join us by following this link!
See you there!
Wow! What a year it’s been. Amid the challenges and disruptions students and teachers worked incredibly hard to successfully finish their vehicles in time to showcase them at regional finals across the country. Our students showed great resilience and determination to complete EVolocity’s program and we are very proud of them all. Judges and spectators…
Choosing a career is a big decision in our young people’s lives. The best way to equip them for this is to expose them to as many real world experiences as possible on their journey through secondary school. With this in mind, our Canterbury students were invited on a tailored careers afternoon on Tuesday 8…
EVolocity in partnership with New Zealand’s new energy centre, Ara Ake, is launching in Taranaki in 2021. Schools in this region will be supported by sponsors Ara Ake and Evnex, and learning partner Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki (WITT), to design, build and ultimately race their electric vehicles as part of the EVolocity high schools programme.…
