An added push to Electric Vehicle (EV) adoption in Singapore
July 28, 2021
Are you interested in translating your innovations to reality by applying interdisciplinary knowledge and skills?
This is now possible with the inaugural College of Humanities and Sciences (CHS) Case Competition, launched on 26 July.
The competition is specially designed for NUS students, and enables participants to synthesise ideas and perspectives from different disciplines to solve complex, real-world challenges.
The competition themes, “Sustainability” and “Technology and Us”, are highly topical today. The problem statement – Encouraging electric vehicle (EV) ownership in Singapore – is an important real-world topic, even as Singapore ushers in a future of electric mobility as a key piece of the puzzle in the Singapore Green Plan 2030.
At the virtual launch, our competition partners – the Ministry of Transport, KPMG in Singapore and Schneider Electric – discussed plans by the Singapore government to usher in the future of EV, Schneider Electric’s vision of a 100% electric mobility future with net-zero carbon emissions and upcoming trends in mobility solutions identified by the advisory arm of KPMG in Singapore. 
Participants will have the opportunity to attend mid-term workshops in mid-August, which provide important domain knowledge, including engineering and design, and communications skills.
The project submissions will be judged in the final round of the competition on 20 September by representatives from our competition partners. They will also be sharing their EV domain expertise with the participating teams throughout the competition.
The launch was attended by more than 100 participating teams (close to 200 individual attendees) from across NUS.
This year’s top-three prizes were graciously sponsored by Alibaba Cloud, the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, and were made possible by the generous donation by the Ministry of Transport, and by funds from the Science Dean’s Office.
Find out more about the competition here and read the problem statement here.
