| Company name |
SIM-Drive Corporation |
| Established |
August 2009 |
| Location |
3-14-3 Kanda-Nishikicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo |
| Capital |
44 million yen |
| Officers |
- Chairman: Soichiro Fukutake
(Representative Director, Chairman and CEO of Benesse Holdings, Inc)
- President: Hiroshi Shimizu
(Professor in Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University)
- Director: Kenichi Hatori
(Chairman of Gulliver International Co., Ltd.)
- Director: Hiroshi Fujiwara
(Representative Director of Nano-Optonics Energy, Inc.)
- Director: Hideaki Fukutake
( Director of efu Corporation)
- Auditor: Tadaaki Kimura
(President of Addlight Inc.)
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| Corporate advisers |
- Nobuyuki Idei
(Founder and CEO of Quantum Leaps Corporation)
- Jun Murai
(Professor in the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies at Keio University)
- Tadashi Takano
(Professor of Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University) *Technical advisor
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| Shareholders |
- Soichiro Fukutake
- Clean Craft Co., Ltd.
- Hiroshi Shimizu
- Gulliver International Co., Ltd.
- Nano-Optonics Energy, Inc.
- Benesse Corporation
- Marubeni Corporation
- Keio University
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| Business activities |
- Research and development of electric vehicles
- Research and development of in-wheel motors for electric vehicles and other parts for electric vehicles
- Consulting pertaining to the development of electric vehicles
- Educational services to promote the widespread use of electric vehicles
- Setting of technical standards for electric vehicles
- Support for basic production of electric vehicles
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