Dr WANG Lei, Bruce

Outstanding Young Alumni Award in Entrepreneurial Achievement of PolyU Faculty of Engineering

Dr WANG Lei, Bruce 王雷博士
- Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering, 2010

Dr Wang Lei started his undergraduate study in Mechanical Engineering with full-scholarship in 2006 and obtained his BEng with First Class Honors in 2010 from PolyU. Dr Wang has always been interested in renewable energy technologies. His interest and passion were strongly cultivated in the dynamic study environment in PolyU and drove him to continue his further study. He then completed his PhD research in new energy storage technologies in 2014 in HKU.

Dr Wang founded EcoFlow in 2017 and has been serving as the company’s CEO. Under his leadership, EcoFlow has developed into a national high-tech enterprise and is recognized as a unicorn company backed up by Sequoia and Hong Kong Foundation X with a valuation of over one billion USD in 2021. Dr Wang has obtained a total of 111 authorized patents and published 8 research papers in the field of batteries and energy storage. Since the foundation of EcoFlow, Dr Wang has led the team to carry out research and development with the mission to reinvent the way the average people and families access energy, and has been committed to building EcoFlow into a leading renewable energy solution provider across the globe.

EcoFlow is dedicated to the development of portable power and clean energy products, launching two product lines – RIVER and DELTA, to meet the power needs of various scenarios, including home backup, outdoor recreation, and professional work. In 2021, EcoFlow released the world’s first portable home battery – the EcoFlow DELTA Pro, which was named in TIME’s list of 100 Best Inventions of the year. Till now, EcoFlow has delivered clean energy solutions to over one million users in more than 100 markets. Today, through the constant commitment into developing innovative renewable energy ecosystem, EcoFlow has become an important participant in the world’s mission of carbon neutrality, endeavoring to foster a carbon-neutral lifestyle for every individual and household to participate in daily life.

Motivated by Dr Wang’s great passion on pursuing social good and environmental protection, EcoFlow has been actively practicing the social responsibility by giving back to the communities across the world. During the COVID-19 outbreak, EcoFlow donated over 1,000 portable power stations to mobile cabin hospitals in Wuhan, providing safe and reliable power supplies for medical treatments and daily lives of doctors and patients. In 2021, EcoFlow donated dozens of portable power stations to help alleviate the elderly’s urgent need of power during the snow storm in Texas US. In March 2021, EcoFlow initiated a long-term reforestation fundraising campaign for the Million Forest Plan, an ecological project jointly initiated by the United Nations Environment Program, the Climate Organization, and the China Green Foundation. As of now, EcoFlow has planted over 10,000 trees in the name of our users in China.