Better Place Kicks Off Global Student Design Competition

Better Place announced the commencement of a global design competition, targeting the top design and engineering schools to create the winning design for hands-free charging for electric vehicles.

Better Place will ask university-level students from the top 60 global design schools as named by BusinessWeek to compete for a chance to design and develop a prototype for next generation electric car charging infrastructure.

Better Place will select one winning team and will invest in the winning idea so that it may be developed into a prototype, which will be showcased one year from now.

"Our heritage is grounded in working closely with universities to innovate a more affordable, more convenient electric car for mass market," said Shai Agassi, Founder and CEO, Better Place.

"Design is an inherent part of our DNA as we want to create a consumer experience with driving electric cars second to none.

Our design competition invites students to create an experience where charging your electric car is ideally a completely automated system so that the consumer can enjoy the freedom of electric mobility."