Kanban EV
185 questions players ask about Kanban EV. Pick one for the answer. See also the full rulebook.
Updated 2026-10-31.
Turns, Shifts and Workstations
- Can you use a shift, banked shift, token, or ability you gained during your turn in that same turn?
- Can you gain a shift in the middle of your actions, such as from a Speedcharger effect?
- How does the two-sided banked shift marker work?
- Are unused shifts banked if you cannot spend them?
- Does the limit of four shifts per turn include banked shifts?
- Does the 4-shift daily limit also apply to training?
- Can you split your shifts across several different tasks in one department?
- Which order decides who acts first on the first day and in Meetings?
- In the Work Phase, what order do players take turns in?
Setup
- Do the starting certification bonuses count immediately, or only after your first turn?
- During setup, where do the three randomly chosen car parts go?
- How many award tiles and speech tokens do you set up for a 2-3 player game?
- Must every player use the same garage bonus tile order?
- Is the New Employee Orientation step of setup optional in solo or multiplayer?
- Can you use items taken during new employee orientation in the first round?
- Does choosing a design and a car part during new employee training give you an extra bonus?
- Does 'supply' in the car part rules mean the warehouse or the general supply?
Design and Logistics
- Must you take all the car parts in a warehouse, or can you take fewer?
- Can you discard car parts you have already collected to free up space?
- How many warehouses are there in Logistics?
- When a First Office stack is empty, how many designs refill it from the central stack?
- When do the Design Office stacks and display refill?
- What happens when the central design stack runs out?
- When a design is returned to the stacks (for example when claiming a car), where does it go?
- Can a garage bonus with the Select a Design icon take a design from the Office stacks?
- Can you discard a design from your desk to get rid of one you do not want?
Assembly and the Test Track
- Can you keep pushing a car color on the assembly line after its cars run out of supply?
- Can you add a car part to an assembly line when no cars of that model are left on the line?
- Which end of the assembly line counts as the top where new cars enter?
- If your action fills an Assembly space, can you add more of that part type there the same turn?
- In assembly, can you push out a car that has no upgraded part yet by moving a neighbouring car?
- In Assembly, does one action give one part, and how many parts can one area take in a turn?
- Which parts can go on a model's Assembly line when the model has more upgraded parts than the line has spaces?
- Are upgraded parts physically different tokens from regular parts?
R&D, Designs and Upgrades
- Does a Tested Design count as an Upgraded Design?
- Can I use an upgraded design to claim a car in R&D?
- Can you upgrade a design without having it on your desk?
- Is there a limit to how many upgraded designs I can keep beside my board?
- What is the design tile marked with an X (no car part) for?
- Can a car model receive two upgraded parts of the same type?
- Can you upgrade a car part whose upgrade marker is already on the last space?
- How does the Double-Upgrade work, and can it be used more than once?
- Do I score points for moving a part up the Upgrade Value track when I upgrade a design?
Administration and Training
- How do shifts work when I work in Administration?
- Can you use a free space unlocked through a certification right away?
- Can you train again once you are at the top of a department's training track to move up the priority stack?
- Does a Homework book advance your certification track, and does it cost shifts?
- What does the +1 certification icon in each department mean?
- What does the third box of the certification track give?
- Which certification bonuses give a speech token: the 2nd and 4th, or the 3rd and 5th?
Sandra
- How many points do you lose when Sandra penalizes you for banked shifts?
- Does Sandra evaluate you when you are on the top certification space?
- When everyone is lying down at the end of the day, does Sandra move first if she is the top-most worker?
- When players are tied for the lowest training position, does Sandra evaluate all of them?
- Is the regular Sandra mode the default way to play Kanban EV, with Nice Sandra as a variant?
- Do upgraded or tested designs count toward Sandra's Design department evaluation?
- Does Sandra still evaluate when both Administration spots are occupied?
- Does Sandra trigger End-of-Week Scoring when she is in her office in Administration?
Meetings and Goals
- Must I put a Speech token on my own Performance Goal when I play it, and where may tokens go?
- How many Performance Goal cards can I play in a Meeting?
- If I have no Speech tokens, do I still take part in a Meeting?
- How many items can I score on a Performance Goal with a 1x, 2x or 3x multiplier?
- On Performance Goal 30, does '2 PP for each Part' mean Parts or Part Vouchers?
- Can you score the same Performance Goal card more than once in one Meeting?
- Do upgraded or tested designs count for Performance Goal 27, which scores 2 PP per design on your player board?
- Do generic Speech tokens count for Performance Goal 32, which scores 3 PP per Speech token on your player board?
Weeks, Game End and Scoring
- What triggers the end of the game?
- Does end-of-week scoring or the Meeting resolve first when both are triggered?
- When exactly does end-of-week scoring happen in the day?
- Is there an extra round after the end of the game is triggered?
- Do you score points for the cars in your garage at end of week?
- How do two cars of the same colour in your garage score at end of week?
- How many rounds are in a week?
- Does end-of-week scoring continue once the Week marker reaches its last space?
- Do I need to move on a training track to score its end-game points?
Solo Mode
- How does Mr. Lacerda score Performance Goal cards in a solo Meeting?
- How does Mr. Turczi place Speech tokens and score in a solo Meeting?
- Can Mr. Lacerda and Mr. Turczi both put speech tokens on the same Performance Goal card?
- In solo, can a Colleague place several Speech tokens on one Performance Goal card or score it twice?
- In solo mode, how far does Mr. Lacerda advance on the training track when he works in Admin?
- In solo mode, in what order do the colleagues cycle cars on the assembly line?
- In solo, does Sandra evaluate the Colleagues?
- In solo, is the player evaluated when a Colleague is lower on an evaluated track?
Kanban EV: Upgrade PackExpansion
- Can you use a Special Garage Bonus design tile in the same turn you gain it?
- Do the free bonuses on a special garage tile need a shift to activate?
- Can the One Additional Shift garage tile let you work a fifth shift without spending banked shifts?
- Can a special garage tile that says 'in a future turn take a Design tile' take a design from the central or First Office stacks without certification?
- Does 'in a future turn' on a special garage tile mean the very next turn?
- Must a special garage tile that says 'in a future turn' be used together with the matching department action?
- How many Charger tokens do you take in Speedcharger setup when playing solo?
- How many shifts can you work in Administration when you have the Speed Charger expansion?