We proudly present

TomTom’s Orbis Maps won both the grand prize for the innovation with the greatest impact and the award for Accessibility.

LeydenJar received the award in the Sustainability category for its work to develop an anode – the minus pole of a battery – made from pure silicon.

Total Safety Solutions won the award for Safety with its Emergency Plug® for electric vehicles

InMotion, with students from TU Eindhoven, won the Student Award for developing the Next Generation Battery Pack, the fastest charging battery pack in a race car in the world.

In the Technology category, Ebusco 3.0 was the winner. Due to the use of composite materials, this electrically powered bus is 33 percent lighter than a conventional bus.

PowerD, a smart charging solution, has won in the Services category. PowerD guarantees one hundred percent charging energy from sustainable sources and relieves drivers and fleet managers.

In the Technology category, the jury had to choose from a strong field of participants with a sometimes fundamentally different character. The winner is Punch Powertrain with DT2, a cost-effective new and compact transmission system that works with various hybrid engines.

In the Challenging Concepts category, featuring promising innovations in the concept phase and ideas from up-and-coming top talent, the award was won by Lightyear One’s Lightyear, the world’s first commercial “native” solar panel-powered car.

In the Services category, with innovations in sharing and service concepts, data collection and data management, Monotch wins with TLEX, a platform that connects roadside equipment with road users for real-time information exchange about the traffic situation.

In addition to three the winners that were chosen by the professional jury, we introduced the audience award this year. Also won by the Lightyear One from Lightyear.

The winner in the Technology category is NXP Semiconductors with the radar chip. This chip recognizes objects while driving and warns or even intervenes in case of danger: a major step toward autonomous driving.

In the Services category, TomTom takes home the prize for TomTom On-Street Parking, a useful tool to help drivers easily find parking spots.

In the category Challenging Concepts, the title goes to Dutch Green Carbon – green carbon black. This concept produces environmentally friendly, .

The inaugural Automotive Innovation Award in 2015 went to the company MobyPark. On the website www.mobypark.com, drivers can reserve an affordable parking spot in several Dutch cities, as well as in Paris and Brussels.