Connecting creative people with practical mobility needs
ENVO launched Next Move to invite fresh thinking about sustainable personal transportation. The brief explored mobility across city travel, outdoor recreation and specialist uses, asking participants to combine creativity with practical feasibility.
Alan Tam’s NEXT-GEN concept won the Gold Prize. Its modular electric vehicle architecture connected with ideas already developing within ENVO: a shared foundation that could adapt to different needs. Alan later joined the team, bringing industrial design into the engineering effort that became an important step on the journey toward UPT, the Utility Personal Transporter.
Entries
Countries represented
Winning concepts
How concepts were assessed
The original scoring system considered context of use, form factor, performance and constraints, technological feasibility, simplicity, social awareness, sustainability and business viability. The evaluation connected the proposed vehicle with its user, operating environment and potential market.
Meet the 2022–23 design contest winners
Gold · (C$ 5,000)
Alan Tam · Canada · CAD $5,000. A compact electric platform adaptable to several applications, from off-road recreation to a small urban vehicle and autonomous delivery. Its modular layout showed how a shared base could support different arrangements above it.
Silver · (C$ 3,000)
Chen Rolburd & Symon Meshulam · Israel · CAD $3,000. An electric add-on board for baby strollers, applying micro-mobility to an everyday parenting task, combining compatibility with leading strollers and wireless control.
Bronze · (C$ 2,000)
Ondrej Adamec · Slovakia · CAD $2,000. A compact multipurpose buggy for search and rescue, warehouse work, agriculture and events. Inspired by the cockroach, it combined four-wheel drive with a lightweight layout and collapsible seating.
The 2022–23 jury
The original jury brought experience in industrial design, electric vehicles, engineering and sustainability. Aram Pakravan managed the contest project.
Asbjoerk S. Mogensen
Mobility designer and product strategist
Jerry Kroll
Founder of Electra Meccanica
Miles Keller
Industrial designer, President of Dystil
Ali Kazemkhani
Founder of ENVO Drive Systems, mechanical engineer
Michael Barnard
Decarbonization analyst and advisor
Timeline
The 2022–23 journey
The competition launched
Entries opened to participants worldwide.
Initial submissions closed
The first round of entries was received.
Top 50 selected
ENVO selected the top 50 entries for further development and guidance.
Juror evaluations due
Jurors completed their individual assessments.
Jury selects the top 10
The jury met to shortlist the strongest concepts.
Winners announced
The final three winners were revealed.
Final jurors online discussion
Our expert panel of jurors completed a comprehensive group video conference, closely examining each submission for the 2022 Next Move global design competition. After careful consideration, they identified the top 10 designs based on the published criteria, before the final three winners were announced on April 15, 2023.
Prizes and awards
The 2022–23 edition offered a total prize pool of CAD $15,000+. The three winners received CAD $5,000 (Gold), CAD $3,000 (Silver) and CAD $2,000 (Bronze).
ENVO also offered a separate $5,000 Golden Buzzer Fund. Out of the first 50 submissions, ENVO could select one idea and allocate a CAD $5,000 fund to develop a prototype jointly with the designer, under a partnership agreement clarifying their rights and benefits.
Watch the 2022–23 highlights
Explore the original competition and its winning concepts in ENVO’s highlights video.
Behind the Design
Interview with Alan Tam, the Winner of ENVO Next Move Design Competition 2022
Explore the standout designs
The original design brief
The first brief invited proposals for snow mobility, water mobility, an all-terrain electric platform, weather-protected electric bikes or trikes, and other future micro-mobility applications. Participants submitted a landscape B2 concept board with a short explanation, and selected entries received development guidance before the final jury evaluation.
These historical conditions applied to the completed 2022–23 contest, which excluded Québec residents. That exclusion is historical and does not carry over to the 2026–27 edition, which has its own participation conditions.
The original design categories
Snow Electric Mobility Solution
Reliable electric micro-mobility is not yet adopted for extreme weather. There is almost none for areas under snow for much of the year. How do you move through snow with zero carbon footprint?
Water Micro Electric Mobility Solution
Watercraft need large amounts of power at speed, and batteries lack the energy density of fuel. An electric system must be far more efficient than a traditional hydrocarbon one.
All-Terrain Electric Platform
Quads and side-by-sides pollute and make noise. ENVO wanted electric solutions to explore nature with excellent efficiency, on-road and off-road.
Weather Protected Electric Bike/Trike (Velomobile)
Most e-bikes and e-trikes are not designed for all weather. This category filled the gap with weather-protected vehicles for the city and for exploring nature.
The cutting-edge micro-mobility solution of the future
An open category for an impressive, feasible micro-mobility concept that did not fit the others.
The contest in the media
First Design Contest for the New Generation of Sustainable Personal Transportation
ENVO Drive Systems launches Next Move to spur the future of micro-mobility.
ENVO starts an e-mobility evolution with the Next Move design contest.
Eco-innovation on wheels: meet the micromobility design contest visionaries.
Enter the 2026–27 mobility design contest
Next Move returns for 2026–27 with a focus on vehicles based on ENVO’s UPT platform. Submit an original design or a written idea and compete for an ENVO D50 or ST50 e-bike of your choice.