In 2015 the Voltera V-One team became the first Canadian winner of the international James Dyson Award, a prestigious engineering design competition judged by the British inventor.
The Dyson Award asks engineering, product design and industrial design teams to invent something that solves a problem. The award was launched by the James Dyson Foundation in 2007. Since then, the award has been won by British, American, Australian, German and now Canadian projects. The winners receive $45,000 (U.S.).