Local Motors in Partnership with Shell GameChanger Announces DRIVEN - a Design Competition Seeking Innovative Transportation Solutions to Address Mobility Challenges

PHOENIX--January 24, 2012:

    
             DRIVEN (Design of Relevant and Innovative Vehicles for Energy Needs)
   Competition Launched January 17, 2012. Join to Collaborate and Design an Innovative
                             Solution for Mobility Challenge.

Local Motors in partnership with Shell's GameChanger team are hosting DRIVEN - Design of Relevant and Innovative Vehicles for Energy Needs - a competition seeking innovative transportation solutions to address mobility challenges on Local Motors' The Forge [Forge Local Motors Projects] (forge.local-motors.com), an online, open co-creation forum. Design teams are invited to submit innovative solutions to address key mobility challenges in selected geographies.

The Challenge: To design a game-changing vehicle to address the current and future transportation needs - the winning designs should address a relevant local social issue and use locally available energy sources and construction materials - at selected locations around the world:

    
    1) Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    2) Bangalore, India
    3) Basra, Iraq
    4) Houston, USA
    5) Sao Paolo, Brazil

The challenge began January 17, 2012, and the deadline for entries is February 7, 2012. You can join the DRIVEN competition either as a designer or as a collaborator. As a designer, you can register at http://www.local-motors.com/GameChanger then create and submit a design proposal. As a collaborator, you can register then vote and comment on design entries to help choose a winner.

To view challenge details and inspirations, visit: GameChanger

"We have a strong commitment to improving the quality of life in the communities where we do business and for our employees who live and work there," says Mandar Apte from the Shell GameChanger program. "Three of the above five locations were chosen because we have technology centers there, and we have major projects under way at the other two sites. Through this contest, we can plant the seed for innovative ways to address the unique mobility and energy resource challenges each of these locations face."

Five winners will be selected by the Local Motors online community to win $2,000 each for the most innovative solution in each of the five identified locations around the world. One grand prize winner will then be selected from the five winning designs by the Shell panel of judges for an additional prize of $5,000.

Local Motors CEO Jay Rogers states, "The DRIVEN competition is an unprecedented opportunity to demonstrate new concepts and address some of the challenges facing the future of mobility through industrial design. The Local Motors collaborative community of 14,000 co-creators will really showcase how designers and engineers can think together about energy needs from a design standpoint."