Description

NB: Kickstarter Edition includes the Kanban EV Upgrade Pack, with Speed Charger & Garage Tile Expansions.

Gameplay Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w-HgRfbqNk

Electric vehicles (EVs) have become more common since 2014 and are the future of the automobile industry. They are superior vehicles due to them being more efficient, easier to maintain, cleaner, and cheaper to run. They are computerized machines that use AI to improve safety and in the near future will provide autonomous driving. They receive software upgrades during their lifetime and are constantly improving, unlike their traditional combustion-engine counterparts, which start to become obsolete as soon as you start using them.

You will be overseeing the production of these vehicles in Kanban EV, with “kanban” (看板) being the name for a scheduling system that supports an efficient assembly line, just-in-time production, and a smooth workflow process. Over the course of the game, players take on the role of rookie employees who are trying to secure their career. You need to manage suppliers and supplies, improve and innovate automobile parts, and get your hands greasy on the assembly line in order to boost production and impress the factory manager.

You must make shrewd use of the recycling facilities and the limited factory supplies in order to appropriate parts when the suppliers come up short. Because the factory must run at optimum efficiency, production doesn’t wait for you or for mistakes. Sandra, the factory manager, will review your performance and keep the factory on tempo.

Kanban EV is a game that focuses on resource and time management that puts you in the driver’s seat of an entire production facility, racing for factory goals and the highest level of promotion. You earn production points (PP) for performing various actions in the game, and the player with the most PP at the end of the game wins.

The SpeedCharger expansion provides players with persistent special abilities they may pay shifts to unlock.

During setup, place 4 SpeedCharger tokens per player in a supply next to the Game board. Each player receives a Charging board which is placed next to their Player board.

When working Shifts in R&D, you may spend 1 Shift to take a SpeedCharger token from the supply and place it on a space of your choice on your Charging board. From now on, the covered bonus is active for the rest of the game. Also, at the end of the game, each Charger token is worth 1 PP for each Car in your garages.

Garage Tiles

R&D – Once per turn, you can upgrade 1 Design with a Car Part from the supply.

Assembly – You may ignore the restriction of having to provide upgraded parts first.

Logistics – You bank 2 Shifts instead of 1 when placing a Kanban card.

Design – When you take a Design from the Central Design Stack, gain 1 Book.

Administration – When working in Administration, you receive 1 extra Shift.

1-4 players

Ages 14+

60-180 minutes play time

Card Sizes

71 44x68mm cards

11 64x89mm cards