Innovative Technologies Selection Criteria

(1) Innovation, which means a new technology created by innovation or an important improvement made on the basis of existing technology, which can break through the technical difficulties and bottlenecks in the core areas of NEVs; and has an important promotional and driving effect on technological and industrial progress;

(2) Potential, which means that it can be widely used in NEVs, as well as parts and components, and that it is feasible to be further promoted and applied.

Selection process

1. Technical Nomination

    · Each member of the Science and Technology Committee and each Fellow of CSAE may nominate no more than 2 technologies. The WNEVC Secretariat will perform a comprehensive integration of previous technical progress assessments, technical scanning, and data mining. Focusing on the three major technical fields, and nominate 5 technologies per field.
     · All nominated technologies will be included in the preliminary evaluation.

2. Examination Form: The secretariat shall examine the compliance of the application materials;

3. Preliminary Evaluation: The Preliminary Evaluation Committee conducted a group-based review.

4. Material Improvement: Communicate with the shortlisted companies to complete the materials. Depending on the situation, conduct an interrogation on technologies shortlisted for the final evaluation;

5. Final Evaluation: Experts vote on each technology that enters the final evaluation through the online system. Ranked according to the number of votes received (with votes exceeding half the number of final evaluation experts). In the end, 2026 “Global NEV Innovative Technologies” was selected.