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Kamiya Lab
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The lab designs and builds prototype electric cars and buses, then runs them on real roads to test their performance.
AboutAbout the lab
Build it, drive it, test it.
The Kamiya Lab (Electric Vehicle Lab) studies electric vehicles, such as battery electric vehicles and fuel cell vehicles, and the equipment installed in them.
It treats everything as a single flow, from designing batteries, motors, and chargers to building prototype vehicles and evaluating their performance.
With electrical engineering as its core, the lab combines mechanical engineering and chemistry in its research.
The lab conducts demonstration tests in which vehicles it has developed run on public roads, collecting data from real-world use.
Key terms
- Electric vehicle
- A vehicle that runs on electricity, including battery electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles, and fuel cell vehicles
- Fuel cell
- A device that generates electricity by reacting hydrogen with oxygen. It emits no carbon dioxide while the vehicle is running
- Public-road demonstration test
- Running a vehicle on actual roads rather than at a test track to examine how it is used and how it performs
NewsLab news
Analysis of the energy consumption of electric heavy-duty vehicles wins the Best Paper Award of the Kanto Branch of the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan
Research on onboard solar power generation for commercial electric vehicles wins the Best Paper Award of the Kanto Branch of the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan
A survey of actual speed-change patterns of refuse collection trucks wins the Best Paper Award of the Kanto Branch of the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan
ResearchResearch themes
The lab works on the design, prototyping, and performance evaluation of electric vehicles and onboard equipment. With electrical engineering as its foundation, it integrates electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering, and carries out its research together with technology development and demonstration projects conducted in collaboration among industry, government, academia, and citizens.
*Illustrative imageDesign, Prototyping, and Performance Evaluation of Electric Vehicles
Targeting battery electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles, and fuel cell vehicles, the lab covers everything from designing the vehicles themselves to building prototypes and evaluating their performance.
*Illustrative imageElectrification of Heavy-Duty Vehicles
This research is about powering heavy-duty vehicles such as buses and trucks with electricity. The lab works on onboard equipment including lithium-ion batteries, motors, and charging devices.
*Illustrative imageEvaluation of the Environmental Performance of Electric Vehicles
The lab evaluates how much the riding environment improves in an electric vehicle, how small the environmental burden on the surroundings is while it is driven, and how much carbon dioxide emissions can be reduced.
*Illustrative imagePublic-Road Demonstration Tests of Developed Vehicles
The lab runs vehicles it has developed on actual public roads and collects data from real operation. Tests are carried out in various parts of Japan, and data is collected on site.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Kamiya Lab consist of faculty members, visiting faculty members, honorary researchers, invited researchers, and doctoral and master's students.As of 2025
- ProfessorYushi Kamiya
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Electrically-powered city bus, Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland” WrS.tm.pl / Public domain (cropped)
- Design, Prototyping, and Performance Evaluation of Electric Vehicles: “Formula Geely chassis” Ngchikit / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Electrification of Heavy-Duty Vehicles: “EV Type2 Charging Cable1” Pamsimhaho / CC0 (cropped)
- Evaluation of the Environmental Performance of Electric Vehicles: “Salt Lake City smog haze skyline 02” Eltiempo10 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Public-Road Demonstration Tests of Developed Vehicles: “Empty Freeway ( )” Tony Webster from Portland, Oregon, United States / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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