The students from Bengaluru city are all set to showcase some of their best innovative solutions in the electric vehicle (EV) segment at the Eco-marathon challenger event to be held in Chennai in December.
The event organised by Shell will display fuel and energy efficient vehicles from December 7 to 9.
Nineteen teams are participating in the event of which four teams from Bengaluru will exibhit vehicles on the Madras Motor Race Track.
A 20-member team from Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology will test drive an electric vehicle (EV) prototype.
The team claims to have built an energy-efficient vehicle that uses a brushless DC motor, and a drivetrain for better efficiency.
From RV College of Engineering, a team of 25 students will run their vehicle equipped with a front-steering mechanism, a custom-built motor controller and a telemetry system that will display real-time data to the driver. The vehicle is expected to give a mileage exceeding 80km/kWh.
The students of New Horizon College of Engineering have included flexible solar panels on their EV and have integrated a lithium-ion-powered motor with a kinetic energy recovery system to get
a mileage of 100 to 150km/kWh.
From Christ University, a team of 10 will focus on fuel efficiency and run their prototype under the gasoline category.
