First time in the country students of RV College in IT city Bengaluru have indigenously developed and launched three new race cars, the combustion (AMF RZX8- CO), hybrid (AMF X8-HY) and electric (AMF-RZX8 -ElE) platforms for the 2018 race season. Since 2003 they have been developing race cars under brand Ashwa Racing .
Ashwa Mobility primarily comprises a team of undergraduate engineers who conceptualise, design and fabricate prototypes with its strength in developing formula-style race cars, which compete both at national and international events with teams from established universities around the world.
“A love for race cars and a passion to design and build them is the dream that started it all for this group of engineering students from the college”, said Ravindra S Kulkarni, college faculty and advisor of the project. Ashwa Mobility promotes the Mobility Engineering development project. The objective of the organisation is to provide a platform for students to experience Combustion, Hybrid, and Electric vehicle technology.
It has diversified into developing the Open Source Vehicle technology in the driver and driverless platforms .They are also looking at developing rapid, economic and environmental friendly transportation solutions for an urban situation. They are now looking at developing Hyper loop platform as a solution to the urban woes.
Ashwa Racing, conceived in 2003, has come a long way since it designed its first race car in 2005. According to team Ashwa unveiled three more prototypes, one of which was hybrid model, which would take part in the US racing event in April-May this year. Over the past decade, the team has built more than a dozen of combustion models.