The organization, which has an exhibition area of 45,000 square metres, has already announced that the leading car manufacturers in the world are scheduled to attend the event in Shenzen. Among them, Volkswagen, Toyota, General Motors, BMW, Daimler Chrysler, Nissan, Siemens, Bosch, Delphi, Bogewana and "almost all the Chinese mainstream automobile main players". The Shenzhen Symposium and Exhibition has received "800 papers from 44 countries”.
EVS is the major event of the World Electric Vehicles Association (WEVA) which has three regional members, namely: Electric Vehicle Association of Asia Pacific (EVAAP), European Association for Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (AVERE) and Electric Drive Transportation Association of Americas (EDTA).
EVS is rotating among Asia Pacific, Americas and Europe hosted by EVAAP, EDTA and AVERE respectively, and is described by WEVA as “the most influential” event of its kind anywhere in the world. WEVA Shenzhen is expecting about two thousand visitors including "government representatives, professionals from industry, research and development, entrepreneurs, students and teachers” who will share experiences on the latest technical findings on electric vehicles.
The EVS series, which celebrates its twenty fifth year, first opened its doors in 1969 as “an academic forum for global networking and the exchange of technical information”. According to WEVA, as electric drive technologies progressed from classrooms and laboratories into the market place, EVS blossomed into an event encompassing both scientific and business oriented activities.
With the theme “Sustainable Mobility Revolution”, EVS will showcase all forms of technologies in the market place and on the drawing boards – from various battery-powered electric vehicles to fuel cell electric buses.
The event will have four major axes: the symposium, where experts from all around the world will share their scientific, technical or social experience by presenting papers in either lecture or dialogue sessions; the exhibition, which is the world’s largest display of products for electric based transportation; Ride & Drive, offering the opportunity to test electric vehicles; and the EV Parade, a series of rallies from Shenzhen to its surrounding cities (Hong Kong included) to promote sustainable and clean mobility.
To ensure the event continues to make an impact beyond November 2010, its organisers have revealed that a Shenzhen Announcement will be presented during EVS25 aimed at “calling all global efforts to contribute and realize a sustainable mobility revolution to create a sustainable, clean and environmental-friendly world in according with the resolution of the Copenhagen Meeting held in Denmark in 2009 autumn”.
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