EVAAP President   C.C.Chan Message from the President I am honoured and privileged to be elected again as the President of the Electric Vehicle Association of Asia Pacific at its General Meeting on 24 October 2006 during the EVS-22 in Yokohama, Japan. Before this, I was the President of EVAAP from 106 to 2001. EVAAP always close to my heart, since my EV career has been growing together with EVAAP. At the EVS-9 in 1988 in Toronto, a Memorandum was signed by international EV community leaders to establish the World Electric Vehicle Association (WEVA), I was elected as one of the three members of the Steering Committee representing Asia Pacific region. Since then, I initiated to establish EVAAP. I visited the Japan Electric Vehicle Association (JEVA) in 1989 and gained their support. Hence along with the AVERE (European Electric Vehicle Association) and EVAA (Electric Vehicle Association of Americas), the EVAAP and WEVA were officially inaugurated in December 1990 at the EVS-10 Opening ceremony in Hong Kong. The major objective of EVAAP is to promote the advancement of electric vehicles in Asia Pacific region and to represent the Asia Pacific region in WEVA. EVAA has co-hosted the EVS-10 in Hong Kong, EVS-13 in Osaka, EVS-16 in Beijing, EVS-19 in Busan, EVS-22 in Yokohama, and will co-host EVS-25 in China. Asia Pacific region has becoming more active and play important role in the development of clean, efficient and intelligent electric vehicles, including battery electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles and fuel cell electric vehicles. Striving for an environmentally friendly society, our present day motorized society has various issues including auto emissions which causes air pollution and global warning, noise, our dependency on oil and traffic congestion. Various types of electric vehicles possess the exceptional qualities of having zero or low emission and being high efficiency, energy-saving, reduce dependency on oil and intelligent. There are great expectations for the wide spread use of electric, hybrid and fuel cell vehicles for the sustainable mobility. In the name of driving on our beautiful Earth for years to come, EVAAP is pushing ahead for a new and ideal motorized society. It is really exciting to be involved in the forefront of such creative development that will have significant impact to the welfare of our future generation. DIRECTORS [November 2006 - October 2008] PRESIDENT C.C.Chan Academician, China Academy of Engineering & Professor, University of Hongkong VICE-PRESIDENT Myoungho. Sunwoo Professor, Department of Automotive Engineering, Hanyang University DIRECTORS Zhou Heliang Honorary President, China Electrotechnical Society Hisashi ISHITANI Professor,Graduate School of Media & Governance, Keio University Masako TAKAHASHI Japan Automobile Research Institute Eun Tae KIM Secretary-general, Korea Society of Automotive Engineers Edward Kwong Shared Services Manager, CLP Power Hong Kong Limited Kenneth K.T.Yen Taiwan Transportation Vehicle Manufacturers Association Tan Kim Huat Singapore Technologies Automotive Ltd. SECRETARY GENERAL Wei Feng Director, Division of International Cooperation and Exhibition China Electrotechncial Society