About the Battery Workforce Challenge
The Battery Workforce Challenge collegiate competition is a three-year engineering competition that challenges North American universities and their community college partners to design, build, test and integrate an advanced EV battery pack into a Stellantis vehicle.
Year One Recap
2024 Ram ProMaster EV Vehicle Overview
Each Battery Workforce Challenge team will receive a 2024 Ram ProMaster EV from Stellantis. Once received, students will get to work designing, building, testing and integrating an advanced electric vehicle battery pack into their vans.
The 2024 Ram ProMaster EV was introduced earlier this year and is designed specifically for electrification, featuring a unibody design that efficiently incorporates the production battery pack. Perfect as a work van to perform commercial activities, this application serves as an exciting opportunity for students to design batteries for bigger vehicles.
Competition Vision and Goals
The Battery Workforce Challenge is an immersive, hands-on learning experience for all students to gain valuable engineering skills that transcend the classroom environment. Students will:
Develop partnerships
- Participants must develop mutually beneficial and reciprocal partnerships with community colleges, trade schools, apprenticeship schools or other vocational partners to collaborate and solve complex battery engineering and manufacturing challenges.
Follow real-world industry milestones
- Teams must follow real-world industry milestones focused on battery design, simulation, controls development, testing, and vehicle integration and demonstration.
- Students will learn valuable project management, communications, teamwork and problem-solving skills.
BattChallenge News:
Headline Sponsors
The U.S. Department of Energy, in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory, will provide program management, team evaluation and logistical support to educate the next generation of automotive industry engineers. This unique collaboration aims to streamline EV technology development in the automotive industry.
Stellantis will provide each competing team with a production vehicle, vehicle components, seed money, technical mentoring and operational support.
Team Spotlight
