The Madhya Pradesh’s first Electric-Solar Vehicle Championship 2016 began here on Friday.
The initial rounds of this mega event will be held at Radharaman Group of Institutes campus while the grand finale will take place at RPM International Go Cart Track, Ratibarh.
Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya (RGPV) vice chancellor Prof Piyush Trivedi was the chief guest of the opening ceremony. Madhya Pradesh Urja Vikas Nigam Managing Director Manu Shrivastava and local MlA Rameshwar Sharma were present on the occasion.
Speaking on the occasion Prof Piyush Trivedi said that solar, hydro and wind energy is the need of the hour. Young engineers should work to develop efficient green energy so that we can save environment. He expressed happiness over promoting solar-electric vehicles through such kind of events.
Imperial Society of Innovative Engineers (ISIE), Punjab, the organization behind the event, President Vinod Gupta said that the objective of the rally is to promote green energy and save environment besides challenging young engineers to come up with commercially adaptable energy efficient solar-electric vehicles idea. He said as 76 cars from 55 cities of 19 States are participating in this championship.
These cars are manually designed by automobile and electronics undergraduates of different engineering colleges. Two local teams -Radharaman College and MANIT, Bhopal - will also be competing in the event. The event is being organised by in collaboration with Radharaman Group of Institutes.
He said in this solar-electric vehicle championship teams from 40 engineering colleges are participating. The event will be judged by experts coming from renowned automobile companies as well as IIT-Madras.
The students have themselves designed the cars and solar panels. In all 121 entries were received but only 76 could qualify for the event.
Gupta further said that they have received support from some of the well known companies and government run institutions. Some of them include DCM Engineering. Allied Strips limited, HaKo Enterprises, Tek Imperial, Sun and Punjab Energy Development Corporation.
Radharaman Group of Institutions Chairman RR Saxena said with the growing environmental and health challenges it has become necessary to find out alternate ways to reduce use of fossil fuels. He said we should focus on research and development in the field of solar, wind and hydro power.