MOHALI, Dec. 5 -- MECHANICAL engineering students of the Rayat Bahra University have converted and redesigned an internal combustion engine (IC) car into an efficient electric vehicle.
Technovators, the final year mechanical Engineers' Club, fabricated the two-seater car, named MiniME16, with efficiency and practicality as the main goal.
Their achievement has been to produce a car that can travel 80 kilometres on a single charge using four 12V batteries with powerful 1.5 KW motor and a solar panel on top to aid continuous charging.
Abhinav A Tripathi, Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department, was the project guide.
The solar-cum-electric car was demonstrated before the University Chancellor Gurvinder Singh Bahra and Pro Vice- Chanc...