Electric Vehicle Design Software for Startups

The market for electric vehicles is loaded with potential for new businesses, with innovation required to bring the technology into a bigger spotlight. There are problems for designers to solve, from batteries and charging to performance, spatial optimization and the increasing focus on autonomy.

Armed with a powerful suite of tools, entrepreneurs can tackle the challenges of the industry with polished and perfected models made possible by best-in-class electric vehicle design software solutions.

Unleash your entrepreneurial potential with one year of the 3DEXPERIENCE free for startups – plus heavy discounts on the second and third year.

Benefit from world-class software solutions relied on by companies like Airbus, Tesla and JLR, and get your start-up ready to become a cornerstone in the electric vehicle market.

3DEXPERIENCE

Boost your business with design solutions for startups and entrepreneurs. If your business is up to three years old, you’ll benefit from best-selling software including CATIA, SIMULIA and ENOVIA.

You’ll get collaborative cloud computing resources that will help you keep hardware and maintenance costs manageable, so you can dedicate funding towards innovative electric vehicle design. This means your business can focus on being part of the growing green economy.

With a set of tools that allow for agile product development, your teams and collaborators can work from anywhere to bring ideas together and designs to life.

You’ll also get access to online training, so you can master skills and practices that enable the conception and virtual creation of generation-leading and innovative electric vehicles. With a dedicated contact, you’ll receive premium 24/7 support, so you can ensure your business stays online.

To be eligible for our 3DEXPERIENCE offer, your startup must:

• Be a first-time customer of the 3DEXPERIENCE/Dassault Systemes
• Be designing and/or manufacturing your own physical products
• Be mentored by an Accelerator, Incubator, or VC
• Be up to five years old
• Have up to €5 million in funding
• Have up to €5 million in revenue

SOLIDWORKS

With SOLIDWORKS, entrepreneurs can conceive, design, test, manufacture, and launch innovative electric vehicles to a growing market.

3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS combines intuitive, robust SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, allowing you to design every component of electric vehicles with SOLIDWORKS and securely save to the cloud, which you’ll be able to access from any web browser.

SOLIDWORKS is the trusted industry standard in design and engineering software, allowing you to transform your innovative ideas and create outstanding electric vehicle designs from conceptualization through to creation and validation,

You’ll be able to create designs with speed and accuracy, both 3D models and 2D drawings of parts and assemblies. Cost estimation tools and manufacturability tests mean you can take cost and manufacturing into account while producing electric vehicle designs.

Standardized data management tools allow you unparalleled version control and oversight on revisions, as well as easy and intuitive interaction with colleagues.

Stress analysis tools and integrated motion allow for the elimination of errors and ease of reworking designs, making it easier for you to get to the perfect final product.

To be eligible for one free year and heavily discounted year 2 and 3:

• Your startup must be up to three years old
• You must have up to $2 million in lifetime revenue
• You must have $1 million in lifetime funding
• You must have your own products
• You cannot be a paying customer of TECHNIA already

CATIA

CATIA offers design suited to the age of experience, allowing you to build and model electric vehicles in their real-life context in an instinctive 3DEXPERIENCE, ideal for both experienced and novice users. CATIA enables you to produce world-class 3D modelling and simulation.

This allows for electric vehicle entrepreneurs to craft the style and design of their products with a high level of surface sophistication and quality, using:

• 3D sketching
• Subdivision surface
• 3D printing
• Reverse engineering
• Visualization and experience

The Benefits

The 3DEXPERIENCE cloud SaaS and PaaS platform includes apps and collaboration tools, plus cloud computing resources and specialised user communities. It gives your electric vehicle startup a simple and flexible way to benefit from industry-leading software solutions like CATIA, SIMULIA, ENOVIA and more.

With our offer for startups, you’ll benefit from:

• Best-in-industry technologies to speed up and improve design processes
• Additional help for your startup to secure funding at every stage
• A reduction in reliance on expensive physical tests
• Being able to get to the growing electric vehicle market faster
• Highly persuasive investor presentations
• Tools that can be adopted to work seamlessly with global talent

How 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Helps EV Designers

3DEXPERIENCE for startups will help electric vehicle designers take the next steps to business success. We’ll be with you for every step of the journey, ensuring you have the support and solutions to succeed.

You’ll have the best-in-class 3D Designs and Simulations solutions to conceptualize, create and perfect every component of your electric vehicle designs. Generative design software means you can explore and validate a range of complex shapes and patterns.

With our cloud platform you’ll be able to collaborate with all stakeholders across design, engineering and manufacturing – anytime and anywhere.

This means your employees and colleagues will be able to use CATIA, SIMULIA, ENOVIA and more on the cloud for seamless collaboration, on any device and any browser. This will enable your electric vehicle business to reduce time to market with complete project management.