AKASOL's stylish energy storage unit wins the 2015 Red Dot Design Award

Energy transition meets design award: the innovative energy storage unit, neeoQube from AKASOL GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany) has received the 2015 Red Dot Award, the most important international award for product design. For AKASOL, the quality German manufacturer of lithium-ion energy storage units, this is their second award within a few months. The innovative company also won the 2014 eCar-Tec Award last year.

“The fact that we are now also the winners of the most prestigious international design competition in the world, the Red Dot Award, pleases me immensely. After all, in developing our energy storage solutions we demand the highest standards, not only in terms of safety and energy efficiency, but also with respect to product design,” said Lothar Holder, Managing Director of AKASOL GmbH.

With neeoQube, the energy storage unit for private homes, AKASOL has impressed not only energy-conscious builders, but also the 38-member jury of the Red Dot Award: 2015 Product Design. Across countries and industries, the Red Dot is seen as the award of choice for high design quality. In the anniversary year marking the design award’s 60th year, the international experts discussed and evaluated a total of 4,928 entries from 56 nations. However, only designs with inspirational quality and innovation were rewarded by the jury. Like neeoQube from AKASOL, which can now spot the coveted Red Dot quality seal.

“You have delivered exceptionally high performance and thus have deservedly won the largest design competition in the world,” says Professor Peter Zec, initiator and CEO of the Red Dot Award, thereby explicitly praising the work of graduate designer Dennis Redmonds from Munich, who was instrumental in helping AKASOL with neeoQube’s product design.

The official award ceremony will take place on 29 June at the Red Dot Gala in Essen, the crowning finale of the renowned product competition. AKASOL’s neeoQube will then be showcased together with the other winning products at the special “Design on Stage” exhibition for four weeks, before being added to the permanent exhibition of the Red Dot Museum in Essen. With approximately 2,000 exhibits covering 4,000 square meters, the Red Dot Design Museum showcases the world's largest exhibition of contemporary design.